Meal Planning
Meal planning in OneHaus decides what your household is eating across the week. Plan from your recipes, the Discover collection or a one-off custom meal, then send the week's ingredients straight to your shopping list.
OneHaus Pro: meal planning is part of OneHaus Pro. See Plans & Subscription for what is included.
Planning a meal
Open the Meal Plan screen and pick a day and a slot: breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack. Then choose where the meal comes from, using the Source control:
- Recipes: one of your household's saved recipes.
- Discover: a recipe from the curated collection OneHaus keeps.
- Foods: a custom meal typed in by name, such as "Leftovers night" or "Dinner at Grandma's".
You can also set the number of servings and add notes, like a reminder to defrost something the night before. Servings and notes are both capped, and OneHaus tells you when you go over.
Past days are read only. Try to plan into a day that has already gone and OneHaus says "You can't plan meals in the past."
Navigating the week
The planner shows one week at a time, starting on Monday, and labels the neighbouring weeks "Last week" and "Next week". Use the arrows to move between weeks, and tap the week title to jump back to this one. Plans are shared with all household members, so everyone sees the same week.
Filling your shopping list
Every recipe you plan carries its ingredients, so the shopping list writes itself.
- Per day: tap the trolley on a day to gather the ingredients from that day's recipe-linked meals.
- Per week: tap Add week to shopping list to gather ingredients from every recipe planned that week.
OneHaus shows the combined list first with everything ticked. Untick what you already have. The same ingredient appearing in two recipes is merged, with the quantities added up. Custom meals carry no ingredients, so they are skipped.
Editing and removing meals
Tap a planned meal to open it, then tap the pencil to change its date, slot, recipe, servings or notes. Remove from meal plan takes it off the week. Removing a planned meal never deletes the recipe and never touches anything already on your shopping list.
If a custom meal turns out to be worth keeping, open it and tap Save as recipe. It joins your household's collection, so you can plan it properly next time.
Tips
- Use the AI Chat to plan faster: "Plan spaghetti bolognese for Friday dinner"
- Plan the week on Sunday, then send the whole week to your shopping list before the big shop
- Use custom meals for takeaway or eating-out nights, so nobody plans a second dinner on a night you are already out
Troubleshooting
- A planned meal shows no ingredients to add: only recipe-linked meals contribute ingredients. Open the recipe and add ingredients to it, or link the meal to a recipe.
- Plan not syncing: check you have an internet connection, then pull down to refresh.