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Assign Cooks to Meals

Share cooking responsibilities with household members.


Assign Cooks to Meals

Share the cooking load by assigning who's responsible for each meal.

How It Works

Each meal can have an assigned cook. This shows up:

  • On the meal card in the planner
  • In notifications/reminders
  • On shared shopping lists

Assign a Cook

1

Click a meal

In the weekly planner, click on any assigned meal.

2

Select the cook

Click the cook dropdown and choose who's cooking.

3

Save

The cook's name (or color) appears on the meal card.

Cook Names & Colors

Make it easy to see who's cooking at a glance:

  1. Go to SettingsHousehold
  2. Set Cook Names for each person
  3. Assign Colors to each cook

Colors appear as a stripe on meal cards, making it instant to see the week's cooking schedule.

Default Cooks

Set default cooks for specific days:

  • "Partner A always cooks Mondays"
  • "Partner B handles weekends"

Go to SettingsMeal PlanningDefault Cooks to set this up.

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Even if you live alone, you can use cook assignment to track "easy meal night" vs "cooking project night"!

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