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Sign up with email. Once you confirm your address, an empty recipe library awaits — start by adding your own or browsing the community catalogue.

Settings → Preferences. imkitchen avoids flagged ingredients in every generated plan and warns you before importing a recipe that contains them.

Five sections: Kitchen (today's meal), Menu (this week's plan), Recipes (your library), Groceries (shopping list), Settings.

imkitchen shuffles your collection against a handful of rules — cuisine variety, dietary restrictions, accompaniment pairing — then assembles a plan in about two seconds. You can regenerate until you're happy.

The current week is locked to preserve in-progress meals you've already started preparing. Future weeks can be regenerated individually or all at once.

Empty slots remain — the algorithm avoids repeating mains across consecutive weeks. Add or import a few more favourites and regenerate to fill the gaps.

When you mark a main as accepting accompaniments and pick allowed types (rice, pasta, bread…), the planner pairs them automatically — curry gets rice, pasta gets bread.

No. Generation is non-deterministic — regenerate until you find an arrangement you like.

Six categories: appetizer, main course, dessert, accompaniment, beverage and condiment. Each day's plan can include one of each type.

Recipes → Import. Drag-drop JSON files (max 10 MB, up to 20 per batch). The importer validates each entry and reports successes, duplicates, and failures.

No — dietary tags must be set explicitly on every recipe to be respected by the planner.

Yes. Imported recipes live in your library like the ones you created and can be edited, favourited, or shared.

Items are grouped automatically using our ingredient-to-aisle mapping. Reorder aisles to match your favourite store's layout.

When two recipes share an ingredient, quantities are summed and units converted where possible. Ambiguous merges surface a warning you can resolve.

Open the list, tap Share, choose Copy text, share sheet, or email.

While creating or editing a recipe, toggle Share with community. Shared recipes appear in the public search and other users can favourite them.

When a meal plan is generated, the system snapshots referenced recipes. Historical plans stay intact even if the author later edits or deletes the source recipe.

Yes. Both free and Premium users can rate and review. Low-rated recipes are demoted in community search.