What's for Dinner

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Getting Started

What's for Dinner is a family meal planner that learns your preferences. Here's how to use each tab:

Plan Tab

Your weekly dinner calendar. Tap any day to choose a meal from your library, get AI suggestions, or enter a custom meal (leftovers, eating out, etc.).

Schedule — Set cooking time per night and notes (soccer, late meeting)
AI Plan Week — AI fills the whole week based on pantry, schedule, and family preferences
What Can I Cook? — Matches your recipes against what's in the pantry
History — See what you cooked the last 4 weeks
Copy Week — Repeat last week's plan

Pantry Tab

Track what's in your fridge, freezer, and pantry. The AI uses this to suggest meals and generate shopping lists.

+ Add — Add a single item
Bulk Add — Type or paste a list of items, AI categorizes them automatically
Scan Receipt — Photo a grocery receipt, AI extracts the items
Snap Pantry — Photo your fridge/freezer/pantry shelf, AI identifies items

Shop Tab

Your weekly shopping list. Auto-generated from the meal plan minus what's in the pantry.

Generate from Plan — Auto-builds the list with smart ingredient matching
Share List — Send via text or copy to clipboard
Tap items to check them off at the store

Recipes Tab

Two views: My Recipes (your saved library) and Discover (search the web).

Import — Paste one or multiple recipe URLs (AllRecipes, Food Network, Budget Bytes, etc.)
Paste — Paste raw recipe text from Notes or messages
Discover — Search by keywords or paste a site URL to browse all its recipes
Preview — See full recipe before saving. Tap "Try This Week" to add to your plan without saving, or "Save to Library" to keep it
Manage — Select and bulk-delete recipes
Scaling — Adjust servings with +/- buttons, ingredients auto-recalculate
Start Cooking — Step-by-step cooking mode with large text and screen stays on

Header Buttons

Snap — Photo your fridge, AI suggests dinner ideas from what it sees
Spin — Dinner Spinner! Slot machine picks random cuisine + protein + time, then finds matching recipes
Tonight? — Quick "what's for dinner" with time budget filter, suggests meals from your pantry

Smart Features

Dietary Flags — Recipes that conflict with family dislikes show red warnings (e.g., Larken doesn't eat red meat)
Picky Eater Alternatives — Many recipes include a simpler option for Larken
Recommendations — AI suggests new recipes based on what your family likes
Expiry Tracking — Set expiry dates on pantry items, see color-coded warnings
Cook Deduction — Rating a meal auto-deducts ingredients from pantry

Tips

Recipes rated thumbs-up (3/3) from preview auto-save to your library
The shopping list skips basic staples (salt, pepper, oil, butter)
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