Weekly meal planner

Every free Velvet recipe that fits a slot: 194 breakfasts, 389 lunches, 521 dinners, 336 snacks, 602 desserts and 71 drinks. Masterclass recipes are left out. You can also tap a slot and pick any recipe, or add one of the 30 meal sets in one go.

The main dish goes in Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner, a starter (an appetizer or soup) goes in Snack, a dessert in Dessert and a drink in Drink. Sides, salads, bread and sauces stay under the day as “also in the set”, and they still go on the shopping list. You can save your own day or week as a set too.

When you tap “Plan my week”, recipes are picked at random from the ones that match your filters, without repeating a recipe in the same plan and, where possible, without two meals from the same chapter on one day or the same chapter two days running. Locked slots are kept.

Each recipe is scaled to that slot’s servings, then the same ingredient in the same unit is added together: two recipes with 150 g and 200 g of onion give one line of 350 g. Amounts in different units (grams and tablespoons, say) stay on separate lines. Small amounts are rounded up so you buy enough.

They are estimates per person, from the nutrition per serving on each recipe (USDA FoodData Central values), for one serving of every planned dish that day. Free sugars are compared with the WHO guide of under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g (not endorsed by WHO). Caffeine is compared with the EFSA general guidance of up to 400 mg a day for healthy adults, and is only counted where a recipe has a published figure. Where a number is missing, the page says so. Check product labels if you need exact numbers.

Yes. It is saved in this browser, and if you are signed in it also syncs to your account on every device.