EatPal: Picky Eater Meal Plans

Cook Mode Follow recipes step by step with the screen staying on the whole time — no more tapping to wake your phone with floury hands. Smarter Pantry Your pantry now updates intelligently when you mark a recipe as made: quantities are scaled for your serving size and converted to the right units automatically. A new coverage badge on the planner shows at a glance what you already have in stock, and you'll get a gentle nudge if you're running low after cooking. New Home Tab The dashboard is now your home screen, giving you faster access to your week at a glance. Recipes have moved to the More tab. Barcode Scanner Upgrades Added a flashlight button for scanning in dim lighting, plus a manual entry option if a barcode won't scan. Added a flashlight button for scanning in dim lighting, plus a manual entry option if a barcode won't scan. Widgets & Watch Widget taps now deep-link directly to the right screen. Apple Watch complications now correctly read from the shared App Group store. Widgets also refresh automatically after Siri shortcuts run. Missing Ingredient Prompts When you add a meal to your plan, you'll be prompted about any ingredients you're running low on — from any add path. Performance & Polish Faster image loading with a real thumbnail cache, loading skeletons while content arrives, and improved offline sync reliability. Accessibility VoiceOver support for charts, day chips, and stat labels. Animations now respect your Reduce Motion setting throughout the app.

What's New Syncing that just works Recipes, grocery lists, pantry items, meal-plan templates, and shopping sessions now sync across every device on your account — add something on your phone, see it on the web, and vice versa. Better AI meal planning Meal suggestions now use your child's profile, safe and try-bite foods, recent meals, and what's about to expire in your pantry to recommend real meals — no more generic fallbacks. Clearer recipes Every recipe now shows how many servings it makes, and the serving stepper scales the ingredient amounts right along with it. Grocery & pantry fixes "Move to pantry" now saves reliably, and store aisle layouts load correctly so your list is ordered to match your store. Stability Squashed a number of bugs that could cause screens to fail to load or data to appear missing.

What's New Syncing that just works Recipes, grocery lists, pantry items, meal-plan templates, and shopping sessions now sync across every device on your account — add something on your phone, see it on the web, and vice versa. Better AI meal planning Meal suggestions now use your child's profile, safe and try-bite foods, recent meals, and what's about to expire in your pantry to recommend real meals — no more generic fallbacks. Clearer recipes Every recipe now shows how many servings it makes, and the serving stepper scales the ingredient amounts right along with it. Grocery & pantry fixes "Move to pantry" now saves reliably, and store aisle layouts load correctly so your list is ordered to match your store. Stability Squashed a number of bugs that could cause screens to fail to load or data to appear missing.

What's new Dinner in 20 minutes? Tap Tonight Mode for three kid-fit recipes ranked against what's in your pantry — then cook hands-free with step-by-step prompts and a built-in timer. Snap a grocery receipt and watch your pantry fill itself in. EatPal reads the receipt with on-device vision, suggests the right aisle, and ignores the stuff you didn't actually buy. "What can I make right now?" finds recipes you can cook from your current pantry, flags the one or two ingredients you're short, and one-taps the missing items to your grocery list. Smart Quick Add for groceries — type a partial word or snap a product photo and we infer the name, unit, aisle, and brand. New AR Shelf Finder points your camera down the aisle to spot items on your list. Apple sign-in upgrades: bind a real email to your Apple account so you stop missing reminders sent to your @privaterelay address, and set a password so you can sign in either way. Other goodies in this release: - "Expiring soon" pantry card so nothing rots in the back of the fridge - Restock predictor learns your buying cadence and pre-flags items running low - Shopping Mode — bigger taps, dark theme, brightness pinned for one-handed in-store use - Post-meal feedback (1-5 emoji + note) so the planner learns what worked - Try-bite streaks with milestone badges - Family sharing via 6-character invite codes - Budget calculator with a weekly spend forecast - HealthKit kid growth-data import on profile setup - Expanded Siri shortcuts ("Hey Siri, what's for dinner?") Fixes - Resolved a sign-in error ("Invalid authentication credentials") for users on the latest build — our backend was rotated and the app was still presenting the old key. You should now be able to log in normally.

What's New in EatPal — v1.0.3 (Spring 2026) Six big upgrades to the Pantry → Recipes → Plan → Grocery loop, focused on reducing friction in the parts of weekly meal planning that take the most tapping. Drop the relevant section into App Store / TestFlight / blog as needed. --- App Store-style summary (≤500 chars) EatPal 1.0.3 makes weekly meal planning feel half as long. • What can I cook? — match recipes against your pantry instantly • Grocery, by recipe — flip between aisle order and per-meal grouping • Real store aisles — 32 sections that match the way you actually shop • One-tap "I made this" — auto-debits pantry + checks off ingredients • Bulk edit in Pantry, Grocery, and Recipes — one tap to handle 30 items • Structured recipes with proper quantities and units --- Headline features "What can I cook with what I have?" Open the Recipes tab → tap the menu → What can I make? EatPal scans your recipe collection, scores each one against your pantry and grocery list, and shows you what you can cook right now vs what you're "almost there" on. Every recipe shows the missing items as chips you can add to the grocery list with one tap. You'll also see this surfaced in the Grocery tab when your list is empty — no need to start a list from scratch when dinner might already be in the pantry. Grocery list, by recipe The Grocery tab has a new view-mode toggle in the header. Switch between: - By Aisle (the default) — items grouped by where you'll find them in the store, sorted in walk order - By Recipe — items grouped under the meal that needs them, with a "Mon dinner · Wed lunch" subtitle so you know what's covering what Tap any recipe section header to jump straight into the recipe details without leaving the Grocery tab. Items shared across multiple recipes get their own "Shared" group at the top; manual additions stay visible at the bottom. Real grocery-store aisles We expanded the 6-bucket food category list into a 32-aisle taxonomy that mirrors how a US grocery store actually lays out: produce, bakery, bread, meat & deli, seafood, dairy, eggs, refrigerated, frozen meals/veg/treats, canned, dry soups, pasta, rice & grains, condiments, baking, breakfast, snacks, crackers, candy, beverages, beer & wine, Mexican, Asian, European, household, paper goods, cleaning, personal care, baby, pet, and other. Existing items are auto-mapped to the closest match; you can refine per item or in bulk. Shopping Mode now sorts your list by store walk order so you move front-to-back through the aisles instead of doubling back. One-tap "I made this" Long-press any planned meal that's linked to a recipe and tap Made it. EatPal will, in one move: - Debit your pantry — every linked ingredient drops by one serving - Check off matching grocery items — anything that recipe sourced from your list gets marked bought - Log the event — re-tapping within an hour shows "already logged" instead of double-debiting your pantry The whole loop happens in one server-side transaction, so it's atomic and the UI updates instantly. Bulk edit, everywhere Tap Select multiple in the Pantry, Grocery, or Recipes menu (or use the existing Pantry select toggle) and a bottom action bar appears. Each list gets the actions that make sense for it: - Pantry - Mark Safe, Mark Try-Bite, Move to Grocery, Set Category, Delete - Grocery - Mark Bought, Set Aisle, Select All, Delete - Recipes - Add Ingredients to Grocery, Select All, Delete Every bulk action is a single network request - bulk-deleting 30 items no longer makes 30 round-trips. Bulk-add-recipe-to-grocery dedupes against your existing list and uses each recipe's structured ingredients (with quantities + units) when available.

What's New in This Version This update brings major new tools for stress-free meal planning: NEW • Recipe Import — paste any URL or share a recipe from Safari, and we'll pull in ingredients, instructions, and photos automatically • AI Fridge Scan — snap a photo of what's inside, get a meal plan that uses what you already have • Apple Watch app — today's meals, grocery list, and one-tap logging from your wrist • Shopping Mode — one-handed, dark-themed in-store grocery UI with screen-stays-on and inline undo FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY • Family Sharing via 6-character invite code — partners and grandparents can see and edit the same plan • Try-Bite streaks and 12 milestone badges to celebrate every win • Cross-kid meal plan copying so you don't re-build plans by hand NEW INSIGHTS • Pantry expiry tracking with "Expiring Soon" dashboard card • Weekly budget calculator with AI-aware spend bias • HealthKit growth import for each kid's profile • Post-meal feedback (1-5 + optional note) feeds back into suggestions UNDER THE HOOD • Faster, more reliable AI parsing across recipe and meal-plan flows • Expanded Siri shortcuts (today's plan, mark food status) • Improved VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support throughout • Friendlier error messages everywhere