Meal Plan

Meal Planning and Recipe Management Pluging for Obsidian.md

This plugin helps you manage your list of recipes as well as plan meals for the week.

Features

• Search & Filter recipes based on ingredients you have
• Create/update or generate 'Meal Plan' note for each week you need to plan
• Generate shopping lists for you for the week
• Download recipes from the internet to store as markdown

Formatting recipe notes

This plugin supports two formats of your recipes to extract be able to extract the correct information.

1. RecipeMD
2. And a simpler but to be deprecated format, based on headings, Create an h1 heading called: Ingredients and another called Directions.

e.g.

# Ingredients
- 1tsbp baking soda
- ...

# Directions
1. Mix dry ingredients together

Searching

Recipe's can be searched for using the 'Find a Recipe' dialog from the command palette. You can search for recipes based on ingredients. You can add recipes to a list on the side and you can then add those reipces to particular days in the Meal Plan.

Meal planning

When recipes are added to the meal plan they're automatically added to the Meal Plan note in the current week.

Shopping list

Recipe ingredients can be added to the shopping list in two ways:

1. You can add them individually from the note's context menu
2. You can add the ingredients for the week from the Meal Plan using the command palette.

Formatting To customize how ingredients are added to the shopping list you can modify the Shopping list format setting (defaulted to: {description} {quantity} {unitOfMeasure} ({altQuantity} {altUnitOfMeasure})). The value of the setting can contain any text and to paste properties from an ingredient you can use the {property} syntax.

Properties are:

• quantity: The primary quantity (the lower quantity in a range, if applicable)
• quantity2: The secondary quantity (the upper quantity in a range, or null if not applicable)
• unitOfMeasureID: The unit of measure identifier
• unitOfMeasure: The unit of measure
• description: The description (usually the name of the ingredient)
• isGroupHeader: Whether the "ingredient" is actually a group header, e.g. "For icing:", rarely used
• altQuantity: Quantity taken from inside () of the ingredient line
• altUnitOfMeasure: Unit of measurement from inside () of the ingredient line
• altUnitOfMeasureID: Unit of measurement id from inside () of the ingredient line

Developer Notes

• https://docs.obsidian.md/Home