How the tin works

Tap the + in the middle of the bar (top-right on a bigger screen). Pick type it in to fill out a recipe like you would on a card: title, ingredients, steps.

For Tuesday-night improvising, pick quick meal instead. It's a shortcut for the throw-together dinners we make from the fridge: one line describes it, we skip the formal steps.

Paste any recipe URL (NYT Cooking, Food Network, King Arthur, a food blog) and we'll grab the ingredients, steps, cook time, and the site's own photo.

A few sites won't let us read their pages at all. When you hit one, we'll say so and point you at paste anything, where your own browser has already done the fetching for us.

Take a picture of a cookbook page or a handwritten card. We'll read the text off it and turn it into a proper recipe. Works best on a flat, well-lit page.

Copy the share link from a TikTok cooking video and paste it into Add. We'll pull out the recipe from the caption and the spoken transcript.

If you've got a big list somewhere (a Google Sheet, an old Notion table), export it to CSV and drop it into Add → import a spreadsheet. One row per recipe.

Settings → ask someone in. Generates a one-time link that expires in 7 days. Whoever opens it joins your household and can see and edit the same recipes, plan, and grocery list.

On any recipe, hit share → publish. You'll get a public link anyone can open, no sign-in needed. Your kitchen's public page shows everything you've published. The sharing setting offers to publish each new recipe; it does not publish the whole cookbook by itself.

On any household's profile, tap follow. New recipes they publish show up under Kitchens. Unfollow anytime.

On any public recipe, hit Save to my kitchen. A copy lands in your library, editable however you want. The original stays theirs.

Open The week, then use the search on the right (or your recent library) to find a recipe. Drag it onto a day. That's the plan.

Plan says one thing, dinner is another. On any day, hit log tonight to record what you really made: takeout, leftovers, or a different recipe entirely.

After a meal, tap the reaction faces to note how each kid felt about it. Over time this becomes 'what everyone actually likes'. Useful when we're stuck for ideas.

In The week, the ⋯ menu lets you copy the current week to next week (great for repeating batches), or clear a week if plans changed.

On Pantry, under Need, hit Build from this week's plan. We take every ingredient across the week, combine what's duplicated, and give you a categorized list.

If it's on your pantry list (Settings → the pantry), we assume you already have it and leave it off the shopping list. Add or remove staples anytime; the list rebuilds instantly.

Tap shopping mode for the big-thumb, one-item-at-a-time view built for pushing a cart. Anyone else in the household sees checks in real time, so we don't double-buy.

Some sites really don't want to be scraped. Try the snap a photo route on the page in a browser, or copy the ingredients and steps into a manual recipe.

If a card is missing its photo, either the source removed the image or our importer couldn't read it. Open the recipe, hit edit, and paste in a new image URL, or leave it blank.

Short TikToks with mostly video and no caption are hard. If ingredients came back empty, you'll get a stub recipe. Open it and type them in. The video URL is saved so you can rewatch.

Two likely reasons: the ingredient is on your pantry-staples list (Settings → the pantry), or the recipe wasn't on the plan. You can also add loose items by hand at the bottom of the list.

Nothing's really gone for at least 7 days. Settings → trash shows every deleted recipe. Tap one to restore it back into the library exactly where it was.