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I would love to see a *simple* meal planner added to your site. For my needs, a weekly display where to add the meals (just type the names or add the URLs, pictures are nice but not necessary). Do not assume the meals come from EYB! The ability to transfer a meal from one day to another (in case you did not get to cook what you wanted one day :)). Anything else would be gravy. 

I have looked at just about every app out there and they are not good, or too complex to use, or have useless features I cannot turn off.

Hoping, hoping...

Try the Add personal recipes feature. You will learn how to write down recipes the EYB way which is, so far I see, very close to EYB indexing. Personal recipes are the ones you have invented, xerox or from other URLs and you can't live without them. By the way, Jane, could we have in that feature a field leading us to the scanned recipe page(s) on our HD. Since all this would happen in the private area of each member, I wonder if this would be still a copyright problem? Another problem is managing quantities of personal recipes. I am still under 100, but I feel I'm loosing control over them. 

The other thing I would suggest: think of Bookmarks! And start planning! I took a week, as a base time unit, and the four seasons as a larger time unit (read Leanne Ely's Saving Dinner Basics... for intro purposes). She gives 6 menus per 8 weeks per one season. The missing 5 weeks to complete the season you cover with repeating the best menus. I'm always afraid that my cooking is dull, hence the planning. The weekly scheme goes: vegetarian 1, fish/seafood 2+5, chicken/turkey 3+6 and pork/beef 4. Sunday is lunch outside or at home with friends or family. So I have a bookmark Week 20160905 for all the lunch recipes of this very week. Recipes of special occasiions lunches or dinners with friends bear the date and type of venue. The Bookmarks can be edited and deleted so it is not a problem to move one dish from a week to another. If you keep this bookmark database updated you may look back and see what did you do 5 weeks before or when is that you made a particular recipe last time. The remaining 4 daily meals are unique Personal recipes with continous ingredients. That means that under Breakfast recipe I have all ingredients that I need for breakfasts in a week (recurring). I do also stocks on a weekly basis for the freezer,(Bookmark: Stocks). I'm trying to cook without leftovers in quantities that suits us once or twice,thri toput also leftovers  I've been doing this the last 6 months, so I have plenty of bookmarks. For the time being, to complete a year would be a goal. 

To conclude, my planning consists of bookmarking. It is meant to generate easily a shopping list.

But I feel that I have to mention two other titles, besides the above mentioned that form a triangle defining the moving area:

1 Mark Bittman's Kitchen Matrix reflecting the multitude/matrix of recipes per ingredient 

2. ??? Kitchen Shelf limiting ingredients to 10 basic items with some 25 seasonings and spices, don-t take me as granted. And a few ingredients per recipe that you have to buy apart. Simply, contagious.

I feel that this is enough for today. Hope someone finds it useful...  

Thanks for this. I am going to think about your suggestions.

FYI, I went with a separate website, PlanToEat. It does most of what I want, no fuss, no need to import my recipes. I had to work around some missing features, and it's not free (but it's really inexpensive). 

Originally Posted by: apattin

I would love to see a *simple* meal planner added to your site. For my needs, a weekly display where to add the meals (just type the names or add the URLs, pictures are nice but not necessary). Do not assume the meals come from EYB! The ability to transfer a meal from one day to another (in case you did not get to cook what you wanted one day :)). Anything else would be gravy. 

I have looked at just about every app out there and they are not good, or too complex to use, or have useless features I cannot turn off.

Hoping, hoping...

Second this request. I *use* Paprika app, but not really because it's to input any recipe not already downloaded on the web, same problem applies to Plan to Eat. Would love to find a way to integrate the grocery list function with a meal planning chart/function, and I do use bookmarks but those also can get a bit bulky.

Hi, After the mentikoned PlantoEat site I stumbled today on the following:

The Best Cookbook & Recipe Software of 2016 at http://www.toptenreviews.com/

I don't have any experience with such software. but there may be poeple who could share their experiences in those matters. B

I have pepperplate, I barely use it, tried Big Oven also, meh.  I have to key or import the recipes to use the shopping list features so it defeats the purpose of Eat your books for me.  Now i have an Echo from Amazon so I can yell at the device for what to put on the shopping list :D

If one can be considered for the future that would be fantastic.  Doesn't need to be fancy, just a place to list meals for a week and possibly save a menu so if I have corn on the cob I can look and see I've enjoyed it with X dishes so I can think less about planning and more about cooking and eating

Originally Posted by: apattin

FYI, I went with a separate website, PlanToEat. It does most of what I want, no fuss, no need to import my recipes. I had to work around some missing features, and it's not free (but it's really inexpensive). 

I've used this for years and just LOVE it. Sadly, I find that I am not using my cookbooks as much because of it though.