Meal Plan Quantity management

[gaboriaudn]

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What is the issue you are experiencing?

When I plan a recipe for a weekday and enter a customized number of servings (for example, to adapt to my family's needs), I expect this information to be saved and used to generate the corresponding grocery list.

However, it seems this value is not being memorized. Indeed, once all my weekly meals are planned, when I try to generate my grocery list, I find that the number of servings used is the default one defined in the recipe—not the one I specified during planning. This therefore skews the quantities on the shopping list.

Is this normal behavior, a bug, or am I misusing the feature?

Steps to Reproduce

Select a recipe to add to a day of the week.

When adding the recipe, change the number of servings (for example, from 2 to 4 servings).

Optionally repeat the operation for multiple days/recipes.

Generate the shopping list based on the weekly meal plan.

Observe that the quantity of ingredients corresponds to the recipe’s default number of servings, not the modified number of servings used during planning.

Please provide relevant logs

not sure if this is relevant.

Mealie Version

v3.0.2

Deployment

Docker (Synology)

Additional Deployment Details

No response

[michael-genson]

Currently that's not how meal plans work; when you add a recipe to a meal plan, you add exactly one of the recipe to the meal plan.

I agree this is kind of confusing, and we should support scaling when adding to a meal plan, but this is more of a feature request than a bug so I'm going to convert it to a discussion.

[Hydro8]

Indeed it's a great feature to have and a first step to manage weekly plan to grocery list.