The Shopping List in Plan to Eat connects to your Meal Planning Calendar to auto-populate ingredients for your planned recipes. Once you've created a meal plan by adding recipes, notes, and/or ingredients to your Planner, the app will generate a comprehensive and organized grocery list for you!
To start, update the date range on the Shopping List to correspond with the dates of your meal plan.
Date Range
To ensure you are seeing the correct list of items, check the date range at the top of your list.
- Tap the date range in the upper right.
- Select either a predefined date range, or create a custom date range.
- To create a custom date range: double tap the custom start date on the calendar and then tap once on the end date you'd like to select.
- Tap Save to finish the process.
Next, go through your list and tap off any items you already have at home. The default setting for the shopping list is to cross off items in line. You can also Consolidate Items at the bottom of your list. Consolidating your purchased items keeps your shopping list organized and less cluttered by separating your purchased and yet-to-be-purchased items.
You can change this setting and clear your purchased items from the icon in the upper right.
Then, add any additional items you need to buy at the store by manually adding individual items or adding in bulk from the Staples List.
Manually Add Items
Manually add new items to your shopping list using the Add New Item button at the bottom
- Tap on the Add New Item button.
- Enter in the item Title, Amount, and Unit.
- Assign it to a Store and Grocery category.
- Tap Save.
- Or tap Return on your keyboard to quickly add multiple items back to back.
Finally, take your list to the store and tap off items as you shop or send your list to a nearby grocery store with Grocery Delivery.