The weekly planner will give priority to using up your pantry foods to reduce waste, especially if you select Groceries as your generator focus in the Generator Settings.**

We don't have the ability to generate a full week with just your pantry yet. The chances of finding an ample selection of recipes that fit your pantry and your nutrition targets and your meal preferences is very low, and too difficult for our algorithms at the moment. The good news is that we're working on improved pantry usage, and in the meantime, we do have an option to favor pantry ingredients when looking for alternatives for particular meal plans.

On the website:

From your Planner page, hover over a meal and select the swap icon to view alternatives.

Select the Pantry tab to display results prioritized by pantry ingredient usage.

On the app:

From your Planner page, select the 3-dot menu button next to a meal in your day and select the List Alternatives option.

From this next screen, you can toggle on the Favor Pantry Foods button to display meal options that prioritize your pantry foods.

 

**During testing, we've found the planner to be 80%-90% efficient with using up groceries when you let the planner handle most of the generating. The average American is about 70% efficient with grocery usage, or if you're anything like me, much much worse than 70%.