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Plan a week of family meals

Cereal at home, pasta for lunch and leftovers for dinner: keep the family’s meals together in one plan.

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The family meal plan shows Cereal and fruit, Pasta with tomato sauce and Roast vegetable leftovers marked as Leftover, followed by the next day’s dinner.
The family meal plan shows Cereal and fruit, Pasta with tomato sauce and Roast vegetable leftovers marked as Leftover, followed by the next day’s dinner.
The short answer

Your family plans in one place

The problem

Deciding what to eat comes around every day. Without a shared plan, it is hard to see what is already agreed or when everyone will eat.

How Best4Family helps

Open Meal Planner, choose the week and tap Add on the day you want. Choose a recipe, restaurant or custom meal and its meal slot. Add servings, an optional time and notes, then save it to that day.

How it works

Get organised in a few steps

  1. 01

    Choose a week and day

    Open More and Meal Planner. Use the arrows above the plan to change the week. Today returns to the current week and day. Tap Add on the day you want to plan.

  2. 02

    Choose the meal

    Select Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner or Snack. Recipe uses a saved family recipe; Restaurant uses a saved place. Choose Custom for cereal, sandwiches or another idea without a linked recipe.

  3. 03

    Add the details

    Enter the servings and, if useful, the meal time. Restaurant meals call this Departure time. Scroll further down to mark leftovers or add a note.

  4. 04

    Save and check the plan

    Save the meal. Its title appears on the chosen day with its time or Leftover label when set. Tap it to edit it again, or use its speech-bubble icon to open meal comments.

If something looks wrong

The recipe you want is not available.

Recipe selection uses saved recipes in the current family. Add the recipe in Recipes first, or choose Custom for a planning note. Also clear any search text that might hide it.

Less coordination, a clearer view

Bring your family plans together.

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About this article

Written by Best4Family editorial team. Content reviewed: . Updated: .

The screenshots show the Android app. The layout and controls are largely the same on iOS. The examples use fictional family data.