The weekly planner

A weekly meal planner
that starts empty

Seven days across, your meal slots down, and nothing filled in until you fill it in. The gaps are the useful part — they're what tells you Thursday still hasn't been decided.

Your week, your slots

The week starts on whichever day yours does. If breakfast is never planned in your house, turn it off and it stops taking up space. Snacks can hold several things at different times of day, because with small children they do.

Filling a slot

Click an empty cell. Pick something from your recipe box, or type what it is — "leftovers", "toast", "pizza from the freezer". A slot can hold more than one food, so a dinner that's soup and then bread and cheese is two foods on one meal, not an argument with the app.

Then the week actually happens

Which is the part planners tend to skip. Tick a food as prepped when it's done, mark it eaten or not eaten as you go, flag the night you gave up and ordered in. Each person can be logged separately, with a reason in their own words.

What you get back on Sunday

How much of the plan you actually ate, broken down by slot. How often you ate out. Distinct dishes, distinct plants, fermented foods, peanut exposures, and how much of the week came out of a packet — each against a number you set yourself.

The point isn't the score. It's spotting that the Wednesday you keep planning has never once happened.