How PREPELIO Works

1. Tell PREPELIO what you need

Start with the basics of the next few days.

Choose:

How many dinner days you're planning

Plan for three or four dinner days at a time.

How many people you're cooking for

Set the number of dinner portions you need.

Whether you want lunches included

PREPELIO can plan lunches alongside your dinners, with their own portion count.

How you want to approach the cooking

Your choices help PREPELIO decide how meals should fit together across the plan.

You don't need to choose individual recipes before you begin.

2. Start from scratch — or use what you have

If you're starting with an empty shopping list, PREPELIO can build the plan from scratch.

Already have food you want to use?

Choose Use What I Have and tell PREPELIO which ingredients are available. The planner can take them into account when evaluating possible plans and building your shopping list.

You don't need to have everything a recipe requires. The goal is to make useful ingredients part of the plan and show you what else you'll need.

3. Get a meal plan built around those choices

PREPELIO evaluates recipes that are suitable for planning and looks for combinations that work across the days you've selected.

The result isn't simply a random list of recipes.

The planner considers practical factors such as portions, meal timing, preparation and storage. When a dinner can sensibly provide portions for a later lunch, those portions can be planned from the beginning.

Other meals may be prepared separately or cooked fresh when that makes more sense.

The result is a schedule that tells you not only what to eat, but also how the meals connect.

4. See the plan day by day

The Plan view gives you the simple version first.

You'll see each dinner and lunch in order, the number of portions planned and where a later meal comes from when food has been prepared earlier.

Don't like one of the dinners?

Use Swap to change it while keeping the rest of the plan where possible.

Want a different combination altogether? Create another plan.

5. Shop once for the whole plan

Once the meals are chosen, PREPELIO combines their ingredients into one Shopping list.

Instead of opening several recipes and building a list manually, you can see what the full plan requires in one place.

If you've told PREPELIO about ingredients you already have, applicable quantities are taken into account so the list can focus on what you still need.

Check items off as you shop.

6. Cook in the right order

The Cooking view turns the meal schedule into cooking sessions.

For each session, you can see:

• what to prepare
• how many portions to make
• what you'll serve now
• what should be saved for a later meal
• relevant storage or serving instructions
• ingredients needed

This is where planned leftovers become useful.

Instead of discovering after dinner that you've made extra food, you know before you start cooking whether some of those portions already have a job to do.