Monday
Pasta with tomato and peppers
Use the pasta in your cupboard. Check whether tomatoes and peppers are missing.
A practical guide for your household
Meal planning with recipes and a shared grocery list
What’s for dinner? Agree on a few meals at the start of the week, taking your schedule and the food you already have into account. Your grocery list then starts with a plan everyone can find.
From your cupboards to a meal plan in three steps
Check your week and what you have
Who will be eating and which evenings leave little time to cook? Check the fridge, freezer and cupboards. Note what you want to use before choosing new dishes.
Choose familiar meals and leave room
Plan something simple for busy days and a more involved dish when there is time. Start with favourites. You can also leave an evening open and fill it in later.
Check together what is missing
Compare ingredients and quantities with your supplies and the shared grocery list. Agree on who will shop and who will cook.
A sample weekly dinner plan
An example for evening meals, not a fixed menu or a collection of complete recipes. Adjust dishes, quantities and days to your tastes, the number of people eating and the time available.
Tuesday
Couscous with chickpeas and vegetables
Choose vegetables you already have and check for a tin of chickpeas.
Wednesday
Oven-baked potatoes with broccoli and eggs
Choose an evening when there is time to use the oven.
Thursday
Bean and vegetable wraps
A familiar, simple dish for an evening with sport or other commitments.
Friday
Rice with stir-fried vegetables
First check which rice and vegetables are already available.
Saturday
A favourite from your recipe book
Choose a recipe together and check quantities for everyone eating.
Sunday
Soup and bread
Keep it simple and discuss what would work well next week.
Save the meal plan in Zanuli
Select one group and open Planning → Plan meal. Choose the day and name the meal, or select a saved recipe. Add ingredients with quantities and save. Each group can plan one meal per day; in All groups, choose the relevant group first. A meal does not automatically become a Google or iCloud event.
Plan meals and choose ingredients →Keep your own recipes and recipe links together
Open Planning → Recipes → Add recipe. Save a name, number of people, ingredients and preparation steps. You can also add a full recipe link, with or without your own steps. A link opens the original website; text and ingredients are not imported automatically.
For a meal, select Choose recipe, then Use this recipe. The name and ingredients are filled in. Adjust quantities yourself: the number of people does not scale them automatically. The chosen recipe version stays saved with the meal. If you later edit the recipe, select it again for the meal to use the updated content.
Save your own recipes and recipe links →Add only the groceries you need
Open the saved meal and choose Ingredients for groceries. Select what is missing and confirm Add. In this example, pasta and an onion are already in the cupboard: only tomatoes and peppers go on the list. Check the quantities you need.
Example: check before adding
Already at home — leave unselected
- Pasta · 500 g
- Onion · 1
Still needed — select
- Chopped tomatoes · 400 g
- Peppers · 2
An open grocery item with the same name and quantity is skipped. Different quantities stay separate and are not added together. Groceries already added remain when you edit or delete a recipe or meal; review the list yourself afterwards.
Use the shared grocery list →Keep the recipe nearby while cooking
On a paired iPad Kitchen Display, open the Week Planner and tap the meal to read the saved ingredients and preparation steps. A source link opens the original website, which needs internet and may have its own access requirements. Kitchen Display requires Premium for the group and a compatible iPad running iPadOS 17 or later.
Set up an iPad as a Kitchen Display →Questions about a shared meal plan
Do I have to plan all seven days?
No. Start with the days when agreeing on dinner helps. Leave other days open. You can reopen, edit or delete a saved meal later.
Can I plan breakfast, lunch and dinner separately?
Zanuli currently supports one meal per day per group. This example uses that space for dinner. There are no separate breakfast, lunch and dinner slots.
Do I need a complete recipe for every dish?
No. You can save a meal name with ingredients. Use the recipe book for dishes you want to find again, with your own steps, a source link or both.