I would like to be able to add items to the shopping list after Iāve already crossed off everything. I know how you add items when the list is pre-populated, but it seems I canāt add anything once it is all crossed off.
It would be helpful if there could be two meal plans at a time. For instance, if I need to go grocery shopping on Thursday morning for Week 2 but I still want to see my recipes for Week 1 to cook dinner for Thursday and Friday nights, I canāt. My work around has been emailing myself the recipes and starting a new meal plan.
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Iād like to be able to remove a meal if I decide not to make it. For instance, if I end up making restaurant dinner plans I want to be able to remove the meal and the items from my shopping list.
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I love this app! Here are three things that would make me love it even more:
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More dessert and breakfast recipes. The recipes on here are healthy and delicious, but mainly limited to lunch/dinner. There are so egg plates such as frittatas, but I would appreciate a wider variety of breakfast options. Also there are currently no snack or dessert recipes. Adding these would allow me to use mealime for all of my food planning! Currently I have two separate grocery lists, one for mealime and one for my other food needs. This would help consolidate that into one list, and I would like to see what delicious, healthy desserts the app makers have!
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The ability to edit your current meal plan rather than having to start over from scratch. Sometimes I want to swap out one dish for another or add a new plate all together.
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Ability to click into a recipe that is in the temporary storage area while building a meal plan (aka stored on bottom of screen). I like to try to choose recipes that use similar ingredients each week to minimize my grocery shopping, but once I start building a meal plan I must scroll back to the recipe in order to open it and see the ingredients list. These recipes are stored at the bottom of the screen while building the plan and it would be convenient to be able to directly click into the recipe from there.
Thanks for a great app!
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I second the idea to make meals based on current ingredients at home.
I also have a pressure cooker and a slow cooker and a Dutch oven and would love to be able to put them to use!
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Advanced prep is something Iām interested in. Chopping and dicing meats, fruits, and veggies as soon as I get home from the grocery store on Saturday reduces the actual time I spend cooking during the following week.
If this advanced prep was noted in the ingredients list (and subsequently transferred to the shopping list), I might be able to save even more time by buying pre-chopped foods. For example, I have a jar of minced garlic in my fridge that I use instead of buying a head of garlic. And this week, as I was slicing Cremini mushrooms āfrom cap to stem,ā I realized I could have bought sliced mushrooms instead of whole.
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There are a lot of suggestions here, hopefully not repetative. But it would be nice to have meals not just for dinner and lunch. Meal prepping is always an option for me but i am terrible at coming up with recipes on my own so adding breakfast options would be amazing. Also adding enough to make for more than just 4 people. I know i can always double the recipe but that doesnt always turn out the same, so being able to cook for 6 or 8 people would be a nice option.
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+1 on seeing current recipes and creating a new meal plan. Since I use Amazon Fresh to order the groceries, I need to start thinking about next weekās meal plan in the middle of current week.
A side noteāI tried printing out one of the recipes from my laptop (not the iPhone app), and the print out came to 21 pages! I did not end up printing it of course, but after I cleaned it up, it came to 2 pages though I think it could fit on one page. I am referring to the Pan-Seared Pork recipe with turnips and gala apples.
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Any plans to integrate with grocery home delivery services, or at least be able to export the grocery list to Excel so I can import to an existing local service? Not a huge deal, just another way for me to automate my life and avoid shopping! (I love to grocery shop from my bed in the morning while drinking coffee and petting a cat. Then a nice man brings it to me and sets it on my counter for me. For $5-$10!!! Life is wonderful!!)
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Write portion sizes at the end of recipes.
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I usually determine my portions by comparing my recommended daily calorie allowance to the 2,000 calorie average. The math is pretty simple; here it is:
Your calorie allowance divided by 2,000 then multiplied by the number of servings given by the recipe = the number of portions for you
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Your calories/2,000*recipe servings = your serving size.
You really only need to do that math once, or every time your calorie intake goals change.
Hi, my name is Christine, I live in North Vancouver, and my husband and I just love this app! Itās almost impossible to make it better, but if you do consider for future updates:
Someone mentioned auto ā timers which would be super in my iPhone. And I love the idea of fresh herbs, but going out to buy cilantro and then finding out Iāll use about two pinches of it and end up throwing all the rest away, makes me wonder if it would be better to say āoptional for garnishā or provide an option of either fresh or dried measurements.
Not much else Iād add. This app rocks!
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What about recipe variations to make one idea suitable for all types of diets? It might not always be possible, but in many cases a meal with meat might easily be turned into a vegetarian/pescetarian one by replacing meat with tofu, eggs, fish or seafoodā¦ Such an approach would quickly increase the options for everybody without you having to add too many new recipes.
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Iāve been manually importing recipes into MyFitnessPal and that works for me. After a recipe is added, you can create a new food using the nutrition info MFP gives for the recipe, so Iāve just stared doing that too. Looks like several people have been doing this, so if you search the database for Mealime, youāll see all the āfoodsā users have created.
Hi Jeff!
I love Mealime! Thank you for such a great app! One thing that would make the app better for me would be a way to share the app with a family member.
What I mean by that is my fiancƩe and I both help with the meal prep process and grocery buying. It would be super convenient if we could share and up date(in real time) the grocery list with one another. Or if I am running late but the recipe is on my app he could just pull it up on his app.
The only other thing we would like to see on the app would be the what the nutritional information is for each part of the meal and what they are defining as a serving size. For example: in the salads separate the dressing out. We tend to go very light on dressing or not use it at all, so we donāt know how that effects the nutritional information.
Even without these features we love the Mealime app and see value in the subscription. Keep up the good work!
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Hey! 
Though we donāt have a full featured share option, we encourage couples / families to share their Mealime log-inās with each other. In your case, perhaps you could share your account with your fiancĆ©e so you both log-in to the same account. This way things will always be up to date for both of you.
Thanks for your nutritional suggestion and your support as a Pro member! Weāll keep working to make Mealime better!
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I use Mealime to help plan my familyās dinners and we LOVE the recipes! I have to save all recipes as favorites though (so I can refer back easily to the recipes I picked in previous meal plans) so that I can create 1-2 week shopping lists at a time (by creating separate meal plans). Since you can only see one āpreviousā plan, this makes it difficult for me to plan ahead of time. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice to maybe have the option to ARCHIVE all previous meal plans and corresponding shopping lists. Either way, LOVE THE APP AND LOVE THE RECIPES MORE! Lemon pepper steak tonight!
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Hi Iām new to Mealime but Iāve started using it conjunction with GroceryKing to great effect. I would really love for the recipes to be easily exported so I can manage my inventory and plans from there.
I know theyāve got an option to save recipes from web pages but so far it wonāt work with Mealimeās formatting. Iāve been copying and pasting steps and ingredients into custom recipes made on the app but itās very time consuming 
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Iād really like to see a quick way to export recipes but even clippable recipes would be great! Thanks for the amazing support!
I would love if the premium app was more social. For example, if I could send/recommend a recipe to a friend who is on the app as well, that would be awesome.
The ability to choose a Kosher meal plan would help me a lot, and save time. Other than that I love the app and all the meals we have made so far.
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