Everything You Need to Plan Better Meals

From weekly planning to smart shopping lists to photo recipe import with OCR. Plated Up has all the tools to help busy households eat well and waste less.

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Plated Up features overview
MEAL PLANNING

Plan Your Week in Minutes

Visual weekly calendar with drag-and-drop. Organise your recipe library. Plan around your schedule.

Weekly Calendar View

Visual drag-and-drop meal planner. See your whole week at a glance.

Recipe Tooltips

Hover over meals to see prep time, servings, and quick details without clicking.

Quick Actions

Add recipes to meal planner or shopping list directly from recipe cards.

Recipe Library

Store unlimited recipes. Tag, search, and organise your collection.

Meal Prep Planning

Filter recipes by prep time, cooking time, and difficulty level.

Smart Tagging

Tag recipes by cuisine, diet type, season, or custom categories.

SHOPPING LISTS

Shop Smarter, Save Time

Auto-generated lists organised by supermarket aisle. Track your budget. Shop on mobile.

Auto Shopping Lists

Ingredients automatically combine and organise by supermarket aisle.

Shopping Indicators

Recipe cards show green checkmarks when ingredients are already in your list.

Quick Add from Recipes

Add all recipe ingredients to shopping list with one click from any recipe.

Mobile Shopping

Access your list on your phone. Tick off items as you shop.

Budget Tracking

Add prices to ingredients. Track weekly costs and stay on budget.

Shared Lists

Family members can view and update the shopping list in real-time.

RECIPE MANAGEMENT

Build Your Recipe Collection

Import from websites, upload photos of cookbook recipes with free OCR, or add manually. Duplicate detection keeps your collection organized.

URL Import

Import from 100+ UK sites like BBC Good Food with one click.

Photo Import (OCR)

Upload photos of recipes from cookbooks. Free text extraction with Tesseract.js.

Duplicate Detection

Automatically prevents duplicate recipes with smart name matching.

Manual Entry

Add your own family recipes with photos, notes, and adjustments.

Powerful Search

Find recipes by name, ingredient, tag, or dietary requirement.

Smart Suggestions

Get recipe ideas based on what you have and what's in season.

COLLABORATION

Plan Together as a Household

Share meal plans with family. Coordinate shopping. Stay on the same page.

Household Sharing

Invite family members to view and edit meal plans together.

Activity Notifications

Get notified when someone updates the plan or shopping list.

Usage Insights

See your most cooked recipes, favourite cuisines, and shopping trends.

UK-Specific

British measurements, spelling, and supermarket organisation.

COMMUNITY & GAMIFICATION

Engage with the Community and Track Your Progress

Level up your cooking journey. Earn badges, build streaks, and connect with other home cooks.

Reputation & Levels

Earn points for sharing recipes, getting likes, and helping others. Level up from Home Cook to Master Chef.

Achievement Badges

Unlock 17 badges across bronze, silver, and gold tiers for milestones like first recipe, popular plates, and more.

Activity Streaks

Build daily streaks by staying active. Track your current and longest streaks.

Challenges

Join seasonal challenges to earn bonus points and exclusive badges.

Leaderboard

See how you rank against other community members by reputation points.

Follow System

Follow other cooks to see their recipes and build your community.

Why Choose Plated Up?

Without Plated Up

  • Stressful "what's for dinner?" moments every day
  • Multiple trips to the shop for forgotten items
  • Food waste from unused ingredients
  • Unorganised shopping lists on scraps of paper
  • Recipes scattered across websites and cookbooks
  • Manually typing out recipes from physical cookbooks

With Plated Up

  • Always know what's for dinner, planned in advance
  • One organised shop per week with everything you need
  • Buy only what you need, waste less food
  • Smart shopping lists organised by supermarket aisle
  • All your recipes in one organised, searchable library
  • Upload cookbook photos and extract text instantly with free OCR

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