Meal Plan -Weekly Meal Planner

JoJo Apps: Meal Planner and Shopping List

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About this app

Meal Plan - Weekly Meal Planner and Shopping List is a free menu planner app and recipe keeper that makes the creation of your weekly meal plan easier and stress-free. It allows you to plan your daily meals as well as snacks for the current and all future weeks in a simple way. You can also consult your meal calendar from the past weeks.
Next to that there is a built-in shopping list and a list of your ingredients at home / pantry.
For a monthly fee it is possible to link your partner and share your food planning instantly.
Do you want to set up rules like 'Monday is chicken day' or 'you have to eat at least 1 vegetarian meal a week', no problem. This app allows you to set up an unlimited number of meal rules.
You don't always have to open the app to check your meal plan. You can set up notifications for the meals or menu of the day and the menu of the next day.
This weekly food planner is a handy tool for both small and large families to manage their weekly menu calendar and meal plan, if you're on a diet (e.g. keto, whole30, forkes over knives, mediterranean diet ...) or not. You can even use it as a diabetic meal planner.

The meal-planner

★ Swipe to go to next or previous week
★ Click on a meal to enter the details. Everything is optional
★ Long press on a meal to move it to a different day or swap it with another meal
★ Define categories for meals. These can be used in the meal rules
★ Search the internet for recipes and save them
★ Pick an ingredient from a preloaded list or freely enter one with calories and GI (glycemic index)
★ If you don't want to see the breakfasts, lunches or dinners, you can hide one or more of them in the settings
★ All meals are kept in memory so you don't always have to enter the full name but simply pick it from a list
★ Share your meal planning with friends or family
★ There is also an extra list of meals that are not yet planned
★ Meal Prep
★ Plan snacks
★ Meal Prep Planner
★ Meal Manager

Shopping list

★ Manage your shopping with the built-in shopping list (top right icon)
★ Scan ingredients based on bar code
★ Optionally enter or filter on the store
★ If you remove an item from the list with one click it's still visible as long as the list is open
★ If you click twice on the remove button the shopping item is immediately removed
★ Share the shopping list

Ingredients at home

★ Next to the shopping list you can also manage your ingredients at home
★ Scan ingredients based on bar code
★ Can be found in the tab next to the shopping list
★ Define your ingredients + quantities
★ Quantities are editable by clicking on it

Meal rules

★ Set up default rules, e.g. Friday dinner is always chicken
★ Set up min/max rules, e.g. eat at least one time vegetarian a week
★ The rules can be defined both on specific meals or the meal categories

Notifications

★ Set up notifications for the meals/menu of the current day and the next day

Other

★ Print a nice looking overview the menu planning
★ Possibility to add a widget
★ Dark mode
★ Share the app with your friends or family
★ Change background color
★ Live sharing with partner

My story:
My girlfriend and I have been doing meal planning for some time now. We were looking for and app but we didn't find one that did fulfill our needs. So I decided to give it a try myself and this is a result. My girlfriend and I have already been using it for a while and now I would like to share it with the world and hopefully help many families in their food planning.

Who should use this app
It doesn't matter if try to lose weight or if you follow the keto, paleo, whole30, forkes over knives, fodmap, herbalife, atkins or vegan diet. You can use this app as family meal planner or diabetic meal planner. Or for your mediterranean diet & meal plan. This app is very flexible and should be able to fulfill your needs.

Ratings and reviews

The repeating category options are great and I love that it collates a shopping list as it goes. I use this for family meal planning and it would be good to have more options in the categories like not having a certain dish more than once a month, at the moment I do find it a bit limited

Easy to use. I love that I can search and save recipes from the Web for individual days. Super easy to add ingredients to shopping list. I can select which meals to include (I.e breakfast, lunch and dinner). My only complaint (and is very, very minor) is that it's a bit clunky to move through the weeks particularly if I want to drag a recipe over.

i'm brand new to the whole "cooking for yourself" thing, and this app has been a total life changer! i like that the free version has everything you need for the basics. The layout is simple, and the features are easy to use. Even if I needed to use the premium features, it wouldn't be a problem because it's crazy affordable. After having a hard time finding apps that actually help me organize anything, I'm happy to say this one has REALLY changed that! RECOMMENDED!!!

What's new

* Monthly overview
* New app design
* Plan meals directly from recipe
* Possibility to set weekly meal-planning reminder
* Copy meal plan of previous week functionality
* Integration with shopping list app