Plan Meals for the Week

Premium Feature

Meal planning is available to Map Your Store Premium subscribers. Learn more about Premium.

Take the guesswork out of dinner. Map Your Store's meal planner lets you organize your meals for the entire week, import recipes, and automatically generate a shopping list with exactly the ingredients you need.

Prerequisites

• A Map Your Store Premium subscription
• A Map Your Store account with at least one store saved (optional, but recommended for route optimization)

Steps

1. Open the Meal Planner from the menu. Tap the Meal Planner option in the main navigation. You will see a weekly calendar view with slots for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for each day.

2. Browse AI-suggested meals or add your own. Map Your Store can suggest meals based on your past purchases, what is in your pantry, and seasonal ingredients. Tap "Get Suggestions" to see ideas, or tap any empty slot and type in a meal name yourself.

3. Drag meals onto days of the week. Arrange your week by dragging meal cards onto the day and time slot where you want them. You can move meals around freely until you are happy with the plan.

4. Import recipes from URLs or type them in. For each meal, you can attach a full recipe:

   • Import from a URL -- Paste a link to a recipe from your favorite cooking website. Map Your Store will extract the ingredient list automatically.
   • Type it in -- Enter ingredients and instructions manually if you have a family recipe or want to keep things simple.

5. Scale servings up or down. Cooking for more or fewer people than the recipe calls for? Adjust the serving count and Map Your Store will recalculate all the ingredient quantities for you.

6. Auto-generate a shopping list from your meal plan. When your week is planned, tap "Generate Shopping List." Map Your Store scans every recipe in your meal plan and builds a combined shopping list.

7. The list includes all ingredients, merged and de-duplicated. If two recipes both call for onions, you will see one line item with the combined quantity -- not two separate entries. The list is ready to use for route optimization at your preferred store.

Tips

• Use the pantry feature to tell Map Your Store what you already have at home. Items in your pantry will be excluded from the generated shopping list.
• Start with just dinners if planning every meal feels overwhelming. You can always fill in breakfasts and lunches later.
• Save meal plans you like as templates so you can reuse them in future weeks.

What's Next

• Optimize Your Route -- Take your generated shopping list and get the fastest route through the store.
• Share Lists with Family -- Share your meal plan's shopping list with family members so everyone can help shop.
• Track Prices -- Monitor ingredient prices to find the best week to make your favorite recipes.