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Meal Planning

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The week view

Meal Plan shows one week at a time as a card for each day, with today highlighted. The header shows the week's start date and how many meals are planned. Use the arrows either side to move to the previous or next week.

Every day shows a Dinner slot. Other meals appear once you've planned something for them.

Adding a meal by hand

  1. Tap + on a day and pick the meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner or Snack. You can also tap Add next to a slot that's already showing.
  2. Search for or scroll to a recipe in the list and tap it.

To remove a meal, tap the × next to it. Tapping the meal itself opens the recipe.

Planning with Apple Intelligence

Tap Plan with AI at the top of the Meal Plan.

  1. Under Tell me about your week, describe what you want in your own words, for example "Two vegetarian nights, something quick on Wednesday, use up the chicken." You can leave it blank.
  2. Under Plan, choose how many days to plan (1 to 14) and which meals to include.
  3. Tap Suggest.

Sprig drafts a plan using only recipes from your own library, with a short reason for each pick. It balances variety, weeknight speed and what you asked for. It also takes your cooking journal into account: it prefers favourites and recipes you've rated well, avoids ones you rated poorly, and brings back dishes you haven't cooked in a while. If your notes mention a fix, like "needed more salt", the reason may remind you.

Look over the suggestions and tap Add to Plan to put them on your calendar. Each planned meal keeps its reason, shown under the recipe name.

Without Apple Intelligence

If Apple Intelligence isn't available on your device, Plan with AI still works. Sprig builds a simple rotation that puts favourites and well-rated recipes first, then recipes you haven't made recently. Your written guidance isn't used in this mode.

You need at least one recipe in your library before you can plan.

From plan to shopping list

Tap Add Week to Shopping List (the cart button) to add the ingredients for every planned meal in the week you're looking at. Sprig combines matching ingredients and skips anything already in your pantry, then tells you how many items it added and how many it skipped.