Meal Planning
How to auto-generate a weekly meal plan with AI
Use AI to build a personalized weekly meal plan from your recipe vault. Add special requests, include side dishes, and review your plan in minutes.
MyMealVault can auto-generate a weekly meal plan using AI. It picks dinners from recipes you already saved, respects your household preferences, and can add side dishes when you want them. You stay in control: review the plan, swap meals, or regenerate if you want a fresh take.
Start auto-generate
Open Planner
Tap the Planner tab at the bottom of the screen.Open auto-generate
Tap Generate my week on an empty week, or Regenerate week if you already have meals planned. You can also open auto-generate from Home when a week needs planning.Add a special request (optional)
Describe anything you want this week, like more vegetarian nights or using up ingredients in your freezer. MyMealVault saves your request so you can tweak it next time.Confirm planning settings
Review dinners per week, meal sections, dietary preferences, and side dishes. Adjust anything before you generate.Generate your week
Tap Generate my week. A progress screen shows while your plan is built. You can close it and come back; we will notify you when the plan is ready.
What AI uses to build your plan
Auto-generate draws from recipes in your vault, not random suggestions from the web. It considers your required and preferred diets, ingredient exclusions, planning preferences (like quick meals or kid-friendly options), and how many dinners you want each week.
When Automatically include side dishes is on, MyMealVault can add matching side recipes to planned meals. New side recipes are saved to your vault so you can cook from them or edit them later.
After your plan is ready
Open the planner to review meals for each day. Tap or click a day to change or remove a meal, drag meals between days on web, or mark a day as no meal planned. When you are happy with the week, build your grocery list from the plan.
Regenerate vs. generate
Generate my week fills open dinner slots for the week you selected. Regenerate week replaces planned meals but keeps days you marked as no meal planned. Use regenerate when you want a new mix without losing intentional empty nights.
Limits and troubleshooting
- You can run up to 5 plan generations per rolling 7-day period. If you hit the limit, wait until your next window opens or adjust meals manually.
- If you see Add more recipes first, save more eligible recipes until you have at least one for each dinner slot you want to fill.
- Only one generation runs at a time for a given week. If one is already in progress, wait for it to finish before starting another.
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