Use the shopping list
The list your meal plan produces, shared across the household so two people in one supermarket do not buy the same thing twice.
Where to find it
Meals tab → the week's shopping
Planning a week of meals produces the list of what you need for it, grouped so you are not criss-crossing the shop.
Ticks are shared
When one person ticks something off, everyone sees it. This is the part that matters: two adults in two different shops, or one at home checking the cupboard, stop duplicating each other.
Ticks appear on the other person’s phone within moments.
Clearing the list
Clear ticks resets them without deleting the list, for the week you shop twice.
Adding your own
Add an item at the foot of the list puts anything on it the recipes would never have thought of — bin bags, nappies, a birthday card.
Only the name is needed. A quantity and unit are there if you want them, and left alone the item simply reads as itself. Choosing an aisle files it next to the things it will actually be beside in the shop; leave it on Other and it gets its own heading at the end.
It stays put when the meals change. Swap Thursday’s dinner, or regenerate the whole plan, and the ingredient list is rebuilt from scratch — but anything you added by hand survives that, along with its tick. It is your line on the list, not ours.
Tap the × on one of your own items to take it off again. Ingredients do not have one: the list is worked out from the meals you chose, so a deleted ingredient would simply reappear the next time anything changed.
If you add something the recipes already need, the two become a single line with the amounts added together — one line, one tick.
Related
Plan a week of meals is where the list comes from.
Updated 31 August 2026. Something here wrong or missing? Tell us — we'd rather fix the page than answer it twice.
