Redesigned meal planner
The meal planner on web has a new layout. Meal cards now show a photo, cooking time and portions, and leftovers are labelled as leftovers, so you can tell at a glance what you cook each day and what you eat again.
Any day in the week is quicker to fill, whether you pick one of your recipes, let Daily Simmer suggest one that fits, or jot down an idea and write the recipe later. You can change a meal right where it sits, the month view now shows each meal's photo, and a right-click gives you quick access to a meal's actions. The planner also keeps up as you move and change meals.
The new planner is on web. When Daily Simmer suggests a meal or writes a recipe for a meal idea, that counts toward your AI usage. Writing recipes for several meal ideas at once needs Cookbook or Plus.
Meal plan in your calendar
With Plus, your meal plan can now show up in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook, and it stays up to date as the plan changes.
See tonight's dinner next to the rest of your day, at the meal times you choose or as an all-day event. If you cook with a Family, you can include the Family plan too.
Calendar links need Plus and are set up on web. Your calendar app picks up changes the next time it refreshes.
Turn it on with Add to calendar in the planner's menu.
Suggestions that fit how you eat
You now decide how Daily Simmer cooks for you. In your food profile, choose the ingredients you'd rather leave out, from common ones such as gluten or in your own words.
The recipes and meal plans Daily Simmer suggests then leave those ingredients out, so a week it drafts for you already fits how you eat. If you ask for a dish that includes one, you still get it, with a warning that it conflicts with your food profile before you add it.
Always check ingredients and labels yourself.
Improvements10
- Improved adding a week's meals to your shopping list, with grouping beside the list and a count of what you've selected
- You can now open a shopping list item to see where its amount comes from, meal by meal and recipe by recipe
- Added an offer to write the recipe for you when a search finds little or nothing; writing it counts toward your AI usage
- You can now pin collections to the sidebar and drag a recipe onto one to add it
- You can now add a recipe to several collections at once from its menu
- You can now right-click recipes, collections, shopping list items and chats for quick access to their actions
- Improved writing a recipe by hand, on a focused page where you add ingredients and steps one line at a time or paste them in as text
- Improved recipe imports, which now try a deeper read when a page doesn't import the first time
- You can now paste a list of recipe links with Cookbook or Plus and they import in the background, skipping recipes already in your library; links to social posts and videos count toward your AI usage
- Added a note in the sidebar after you save your first recipe that says it's private, with a shortcut to who can see it
Fixes9
- Fixed undo after saving or eating leftovers not putting both meals back
- Fixed planned recipe cards cutting off their portions in a busy week
- Fixed meals jumping back for a moment when you move or change several in a row
- Fixed meal ideas for cooks who avoid gluten not naming the gluten-free version of ingredients that come in one, including in Dutch
- Fixed dishes described as only partly plant-based counting as vegan in planner and assistant diet checks
- Fixed allergen labels and planner conflict checks missing a food that a recipe only partly replaces
- Fixed dairy warnings misreading some plant-based milks, creams and butters
- Fixed a new collection briefly showing twice in your recipe library
- Fixed people you share a recipe with being able to export or change private notes they aren't allowed to see