Plans & Lists
Shopping List
Create shopping lists from a master list of items, and keep active lists and history.
Menu
Meal Planner & Grocery Planning Tool
Lay breakfast, lunch, and dinner onto a week, keep recipes with the meals, and turn that week into a shopping list.
Your first two tools have no monthly charge. Each tool after that is $2 a month.
Meal Planner
Create a weekly meal plan, manage meals and ingredients, and generate a shopping list for the week.
Plan meals for the week
Household Toolbox keeps this with your other household records under one account.
What you can do
Build a weekly meal plan
Assign meals to days. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are the starting meal slots.
Save meals and ingredients
Keep a meal library with ingredients, meal types, and a scale for the recipe.
Attach recipe photos or PDFs
Files stay on the meal, including meals you mark inactive.
Make a shopping list from the week
Review the ingredients for a plan, then save them as a list in Shopping List.
Print or export the plan
Print a meal plan or export a PDF of the meal planner records you choose.
How It Works
Step 1
Add meals you actually cook
Save the meal, its type, and the ingredients it uses.
Step 2
Place meals on the week
Assign meals to days on a weekly plan.
Step 3
Turn the week into a shopping list
Open the grocery list for the plan and save it to Shopping List when you want a store list.
Why plan meals in the same toolbox
The useful part is the handoff from the week of meals to a shopping list you can take to the store.
- A weekly dinner plan
- Breakfasts and lunches you repeat
- Recipes with a photo or PDF
- Ingredient lists for the week
- A saved shopping list for the store
- A printed copy of the plan
Frequently asked questions
Can I plan a week of meals?
Yes. A meal plan assigns meals to days. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included, and you can manage meal types.
Can I keep recipes with the meal?
Yes. A meal can store ingredients and attached photos or PDFs.
Can Meal Planner create a shopping list?
Yes. You can view the ingredients for a plan and save them as a list in the Shopping List tool.
Can I hide a meal without deleting it?
Yes. Marking a meal inactive hides it from the picker. The meal and its files stay available to edit.
Can I print or export a meal plan?
Yes. You can print a plan and export a PDF of the meal planner records you choose.
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Put your household information to work
Create your Household Toolbox account and start using Meal Planner. Your first two tools have no monthly charge. Each tool after that is $2 a month.
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