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How to Update Serving Sizes (App)

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How to Update Serving Sizes (App)

Update or edit the serving sizes of your recipes.

Last updated on 05 Oct, 2026

The serving size of any recipe in Plan to Eat can be scaled to meet your needs, whether you're adjusting a recipe in your Recipe Book for future planning or scaling a recipe already on your Planner for one instance. Scaled ingredient amounts will be reflected on your Shopping List.

Scaling a recipe

  1. Open the recipe from either the Cook tab or your Planner.

  2. In the Ingredients section, tap the Serving pill to open Scale Recipe.

  3. Use the - and + buttons to set a specific number of servings, or tap a preset (0.5x, 1x, 2x) to scale relative to the recipe's original servings.

  4. Tap the checkmark to confirm.

If you scale from the Recipe Book, the new serving size is saved for future planning. If you scale a recipe already on your Planner, it only affects that one planned instance, not the saved recipe in your Recipe Book. Either way, ingredient amounts update on your Shopping List for the corresponding date range.

Changing a recipe's original servings

If an imported recipe shows the wrong serving size for the amount of ingredients listed, you can update the original number directly:

  1. Open the recipe and tap the pencil icon next to Recipe Info.

  2. Under Servings & Yield, update the Servings field (and Yield, if needed).

  3. Tap the checkmark to save.

This updates only the recipe's original serving size and will not scale the ingredient amounts. To adjust ingredient quantities based on the number of servings you need, use the Scale Recipe steps above instead.

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