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1. Change your meal plan – add, remove and save recipes

Every week we issue you with a new meal plan – but you can change that meal plan and then save it for later!

1. Remove recipe from meal plan – click on the ‘red cross’ on any recipe in your mealplan to remove it.

2. Add new recipe to meal plan – find a new recipe (browse or search) then click ‘+add recipe’ button to add to your meal plan. You can only add 5 in total.

3. Save new meal plan – type the name of your new meal plan in the ‘save above meal plan’ green box below the meal plan and press ‘save’

4. Find your saved meal plans or favourite recipes – saved meal plans are on your drop down menu below the shopping list button or in your Dashboard Menu along with your favourite recipes.

2. How to create your own meal plans – from scratch

Go to Meal Plan Page

  1. Click ‘Create meal plan’ button (just under the shopping list button).
  2. Name your meal plan > click Save Meal Plan button that appears.
  3. Browse our recipes on the same page by category (vegetarian, GF, etc.) you can click multiple categories or unclick to include more recipes.
  4. Click ‘add recipe’ on any you like to add to your new meal plan.
  5. Press ‘Shopping List’ to save it!

All your meal plans are saved in the drop down menu (under the shopping list button) called ‘Five Dinner Meal Plan Collections’ for whenever you want them!

Shopping list not opening

The most common problem is your browser is blocking popups; here’s a super quick fix:

  • Safari (usually on MacBook/iPad): open Safari browser, on the top menu click on ‘Safari’ > Settings For This Website > ‘allow popups’.
  • Firefox: open Firefox > settings > privacy & security > permissions > untick ‘block popup windows’ (or click ‘exceptions’ type in https://fivedinners.com > click ‘allow’ and then ‘save’ done!
Serving size missing from recipes or shopping list

Go to Meal Plan page, click ‘set my serving’ – a pop up box appears; enter the number you normally feed and save.

Recipes show 4 servings – but you’re serving a different number

First – make sure your serving size is correct (see above point on how to do that).

This is a known bug we are fixing, in the meantime here is a very fast workaround:

  1. The shopping list WILL open to your correct serving size (so that’s all good!)
  2. Open a recipe – it shows as serving 4 persons – click on the ‘PRINT’ icon
  3. This opens another window with the recipe – you can change the serving size on this page and it will reflect in the ingredients on that recipe.
Search for a recipe – or leave out an ingredient?

Use our Recipe Search box to type in ingredients or titles of recipes you want to find.

However, if you want to AVOID ingredients or styles; simply put them in brackets for example; if I want to find chicken recipes without garlic I can write: chicken (garlic)

How do I change the name of my saved plan?

Open the plan you want to rename. Then type in the Save Meal Plan box your new name and click Save. You can then delete your old plan.

How do I change the numbers I’m feeding in my saved plan

Open the plan you want to change the serving size for – then change the serving size on the individual recipes in the mean plan to what you want (there is a little +/- on each recipe) this will automatically save; close the meal plan and when you come back to it – the serving preferences will be your new ones!

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