Everything the app can do, in one place — from your first week to your own family recipes.
🍽️ Your week of dinners
Every week you get a set of dinners designed around your rules — every step written out, with heat levels, times, and doneness cues. No guessing.
👍 / 👎 teach the planner. A 👍 means "more like this." A 👎 means we never serve that meal again. Every rating makes next week smarter.
Each meal has three buttons: 🧺 Ingredients (just that meal's list), 📊 Nutrition (per-serving estimate), and ↻ Swap (replace one dinner without touching the rest of the week).
Recipe tweaks are remembered. "Extra crispy onions, skip the cilantro" — save it once on a meal and it's applied every time that dish comes back.
🛒 One shopping list, your store's order
All your dinners roll into one consolidated list, grouped by aisle — shop once, on your schedule.
Check things off as you shop — your progress survives your phone locking or Safari reloading in the store.
Tap the ▲▼ buttons on any section to match the way your grocery store is laid out. We remember your order every week after.
Your pantry works for you. Staples you already own are skipped automatically ("already in your pantry"), and each week's cooking updates what's left.
🔄 Want something different?
At the bottom of This Week there's a spot to jot a request — "craving soup," "nothing with shrimp," "something with rice on Monday."
Pick a new set of dinners this week replaces the whole week right now, using your note.
Save it for next week keeps this week as-is and applies your request to the next automatic plan.
📏 My Kitchen: your rules, enforced
Everything the planner obeys lives under My Kitchen.
Rules — allowed proteins, foods to never include, cuisines to avoid, max cooking minutes, dinners per week. These are enforced in code on every plan, not gentle suggestions. (Allergies? Still double-check ingredient lists yourself.)
Pantry — what you own and how many weeks it'll last. The shopping list gets shorter as your pantry grows.
Ratings — review and clear your 👍/👎 and saved recipe tweaks any time.
👩🍳 My Meals: your own recipes in the rotation
Family favorites belong in the plan. Under My Kitchen → My Meals, type a dish name and the ingredients you remember — rough is fine — and ✨ Draft it for me writes up the full recipe card for you to check and save. Or fill it in yourself.
Your recipe is served exactly as you wrote it — the planner never rewrites it. It shows up with a "Your recipe" badge, and the planner designs the rest of the week around it.
You control how often: Often (most weeks), Sometimes (a few weeks' rest between appearances), or Only when I swap.
📅 Past weeks
Every week you've ever planned stays under Past Weeks — recipes, shopping list and all. Handy when you're still cooking through last week, or hunting for that dinner everyone loved a month ago.
🔔 Notifications & the phone app
When your week is ready, we can tell you by email, text, or a phone notification — your choice, all managed under Account.
OurKitchen also installs on your phone's home screen like a regular app — no app store needed. The Get the app page walks you through it step by step, with pictures.
⏰ Your week, on your schedule
Pick the day and time that fits your routine — say, Friday at 5 PM — and your new week plans itself automatically, every week, in your timezone. Change it any time under Account.