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Planning, Shopping and Your Cookbook

These pages help you decide what to cook, buy what you need, and keep your own recipes.

For littles

If your caregiver plans your meals, they show up on your Home page. When you eat one, tap Made it so your caregiver knows!

Tonight's plan (from your caregiver)​

If your linked caregiver plans your meals on the main CaregiverBabyHub site, today's meals appear on your Home page under Tonight's plan. They also appear on the Order Ticket Rail marked From your caregiver.

For each meal:

  • Tap Cook it to open the recipe in Cook Mode. Meals that are not in the recipe library are marked Chef's Special. Make those your own way.
  • Tap Made it when you are done. Your caregiver is told right away.

Tap Add ingredients to my list to put the plan's ingredients on your shopping list, or See the whole week to open the Menu Board.

Caregivers see the same card for each linked little, showing what you planned for them today and which meals they have ticked off. The card only appears on days with a plan.

Open Menu to plan your meals for the week. Each day has slots for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snack.

  1. Tap add a meal in a slot.
  2. Search for a recipe, or type your own dish and tap Add.
  3. To change or clear a slot, tap it again and pick another dish, or tap Remove from menu.
  4. Tap Cook on a planned meal to open it in Cook Mode, and tick a meal to mark it done.

Toolbar buttons:

  • Make shopping list turns the week's planned recipes into a new shopping list.
  • Surprise me fills the whole week for you (Pro and Premium).
  • Clear empties the week.

Free members can plan this week. Pro and Premium members can also plan up to 4 weeks ahead with the week switcher. If your caregiver has a meal plan for you, their meals fill any empty slots on this week's board automatically.

Your Menu Board is saved on this device first and backed up to your account when possible.

Shopping Lists​

Open Shopping to see your lists.

  1. Type an item in Add something… and add it.
  2. Tick items off as you shop.
  3. Tap Clear ticked-off items to tidy up, or Delete list to remove the whole list.

Free members keep one list. Pro and Premium members can make many named lists with New, and can use Fill from a recipe to add a recipe's ingredients in one step.

Shopping lists are saved only on the device you use. They do not move to your other devices.

Family Cookbook​

Open Cookbook to write down your own real recipes.

Add a recipe​

  1. Tap Write a new recipe.
  2. Enter the recipe name.
  3. Under Ingredients, write one ingredient per line.
  4. Under Steps, write one step per line. Start a line with an exclamation mark (!) if that step needs a grown-up. Cook Mode will highlight it.
  5. Tap Add a photo if you like.
  6. Tap Save recipe.

Each recipe card has Cook this now and Cook together buttons, plus buttons to edit or delete it.

Free members can keep up to 5 recipes. Pro and Premium members can keep as many as they like.

Share with your partner​

Tick Share with my partner on a recipe to let your linked partner see it. Recipes your partner shares with you appear under Shared with me. You can cook them, but you cannot change them.

Fridge Door​

At the bottom of the Cookbook page, My Fridge Door shows every photo you snapped on the ta-da screen after cooking. Your fridge is private. Only you can see it. You can use these photos to enter the Weekly Bake-Off.

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