Handbook · Chapter 6 of 13
Chapter 6
A meal planner that thinks in weeks — drag dinners around, then shop a whole day in one tap.
Updated September 21, 2026
The Plan page holds three things, and they fit together in one line. The Calendar is when — days of meals, and a meal is the dishes in one slot. A Menu is what — a meal composed: courses, a name, a card you can share. A Game Plan is how — one meal's cooking, scheduled to the minute. A meal may have a menu; a menu may have a game plan; never a whole day. You'll see the same three pills — Dishes · Menu · Game plan — on every meal, under every menu and every game plan, and on tonight's card at home: an outline means not yet, a tinted pill makes the thing when you tap it, a filled one opens it.
📍 the Planner tab · open in Sprig →
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The Plan page has three homes now — Calendar, Menus and Game Plans — side by side at the top. Calendar is where you land: your month with every planned meal in place. Tap any day to zoom in. A day with a game plan wears a thin ring, so you can see at a glance which dinners are already timed. Want Sprig to fill the week? Open it from the centre button while you're here and ask — it knows which month you're looking at, and it can add straight to your calendar.
📍 the Planner tab · open in Sprig →
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Open a day to see its meals — breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, snack. Add a recipe to any slot, and move dishes to another day or slot when plans change, because plans change. Each meal with dishes carries its own trail: tap Make a menu and the meal becomes a menu named for it ("Tuesday dinner"), tap Plan the cooking and Sprig schedules that meal backwards from serving time. Once they exist the pills open them. Shop for the day gathers every meal's ingredients onto your list.
📍 the Planner tab · open in Sprig →
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One tap sends every ingredient from a day's meals to your shopping list, combined and sorted. Plan the week, then shop it day by day.
📍 the Planner tab · open in Sprig →


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On the planner, tap the calendar icon and confirm Sync to Calendar. That's it — from then on, planned meals appear in your phone's calendar alongside everything else in your life.
📍 the Planner tab · open in Sprig →
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Every game plan you've made has a home: the Game Plans tab on the Plan page. Tonight's plan sits at the top, the ones coming up follow, plans without a day yet wait under Someday with a Pick a day button, and past ones stay below with Plan it again. A small dot on the tab means a plan is live today. New game plan starts one from scratch, and a plan made from one recipe offers Save as menu so it can grow into a whole evening.

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Plan your week was created in Sprig — the AI chef that turns any craving into a complete recipe, plans your week, and shops with one smart list.