Why: Allow your members to personalize their meal plans by swapping recipes, adjusting servings, and making other modifications. This flexibility enhances their experience and keeps them engaged with your content.
Navigate: This is a member-facing feature. Members access it from the meal plan detail page.
Quick Start
Click the Customize button on the meal plan you want to modify.
Adjust the servings for any recipe directly in the meal plan grid.
Swap a recipe by selecting an alternative from the options provided.
Add or remove recipes as needed.
Click Save to apply your changes and regenerate the shopping list.
Overview of Meal Plan Modifications
Members can create personal copies of admin-published meal plans and modify them freely. This includes:
Changing recipe servings
Swapping recipes with admin-defined alternatives
Adding or removing recipes
Reordering recipes within the plan
Personal copies of meal plans do not trigger publish notifications to other members, ensuring a seamless experience.
How to Customize Meal Plans
Creating a Personal Copy
When a member clicks the Customize button on a meal plan, they create a personal copy. This allows them to make changes without affecting the original plan.
Modifying Recipes
Members can easily adjust the following:
Servings: Change the number of servings for any recipe directly from the meal plan grid. This action automatically creates a personal copy if one does not already exist.
Tip: Members will receive a notification confirming that their personalized plan has been created.
Swapping Recipes: Members can swap out recipes for alternatives defined by the admin. This is done through the recipe options in the meal plan.
Adding or Removing Recipes: Members have the flexibility to add new recipes or remove existing ones from their personal copy.
Reordering Recipes: Members can rearrange the order of recipes within their meal plan to suit their preferences.
Impact on Shopping Lists
Shopping lists are automatically generated based on the member's modified meal plan. If a member has a personal copy, the shopping list will reflect their changes, including any adjusted servings or added recipes. Changes to the personal copy will mark shopping lists as stale, prompting regeneration to ensure accuracy.
Smart Reset with Servings Preservation
When members want to reset their personal copy to the original meal plan, they can choose to preserve their custom serving sizes. This allows them to receive the latest updates from the admin while keeping their adjustments intact.
Keep my serving sizes: This option creates a fresh copy from the original meal plan and reapplies the member's custom servings.
Reset everything: This option deletes the personal copy and returns the member to the original meal plan.
Related Features
Meal Plan Duplicate - Learn about full duplication of meal plans.
Member-Created Meal Plans - Explore how members can create meal plans from scratch.
Shopping List System - Understand how shopping lists are generated based on meal plans.