Setting Up Meal Plan and Grocery Notes

Recipe Box stores your meal plan and grocery list as ordinary notes. Settings → Recipe Box → Notes & storage controls where those notes live.

Default Setup

By default:

• Meal plan note path: Meal Plan.md
• Grocery list note path: Grocery List.md

Both are created at the vault root the first time Recipe Box needs them, with starter content (# Meal Plan / # Grocery List). If the path includes folders that don't exist yet, Recipe Box creates them.

Moving the Notes

Change the path (e.g. Planning/Meal Plan.md). Recipe Box will read from and write to the new location - it doesn't move your old note automatically, so move or delete it yourself if needed.

Dated Notes with Moment.js Tokens

Both note paths support Moment.js format tokens. This lets you generate a fresh note per week, month, etc.

Examples:

The token is evaluated when Recipe Box resolves the path, so a weekly token rolls over to a new note automatically when the week changes. Previous weeks' notes stay in your vault as a history of past plans and lists.

Tip: if you use dated notes, keep your meal plan and grocery list on the same cadence so a sync always reads and writes a matching pair.

Ingredients and Instructions Headings

These settings apply to recipe notes, not the meal plan/grocery notes - see Writing a Recipe Note for what they do.

Related

• Meal Planning - the meal plan note format and workflow
• Shopping Assistant - the grocery list note format and workflow
• Settings Reference