An AI Meal Planner That Uses Your Own Recipes

Ask an AI meal planner for a week of dinners and you’ll get one in seconds: seven tidy recipes, a calorie count and a confident tone. Then Wednesday comes, the recipe is something called “Mediterranean protein bowl”, nobody at the table asked for it, and you order pizza.

The planning was never the hard part. The hard part is that a week only gets cooked when it’s made of food you already wanted to eat. This post is about a different kind of AI meal planner: one that plans from your own saved recipes. It explains how Fill my week does that in Pluck, what it weighs up, and where its limits are.

The trouble with generated meal plans

A plan built from a recipe database has three problems that no amount of clever prompting fixes:

You don’t trust the recipes. You’ve never cooked them, nobody you follow made them, and a generated recipe hasn’t been tested by anyone.
They ignore your backlog. You have dozens of saved recipes you meant to cook. A generated plan walks straight past them.
They waste food. Seven unrelated recipes mean seven half-used bunches of herbs.

The recipes you saved from TikTok, Instagram, a food blog or a family recipe card already passed the only test that matters: you looked at them and thought “I’d eat that”. A planner should start there.

How Fill my week works

Fill my week is on Pluck’s Plus and Pro plans. You need at least five saved recipes for it to have something to choose from.

1. Say what you want planned

Open Meal Plan and tap Fill my week. A short setup sheet asks:

Which meals. Dinner, lunch, breakfast and snacks. Breakfast is only picked from recipes whose course is breakfast or brunch, and snacks from snack recipes, so you don’t get a curry at 7am.
Which days. Planning Monday to Thursday and leaving the weekend open is a perfectly good week.
Leftovers for lunch. Turn it on and a dinner can come back as the next day’s lunch, without being bought twice.
Recipes tagged. Pick up to five of your own tags, such as “Vegetarian” or “Weeknight dinner”. A recipe needs any one of them.
Max total time. 30, 45 or 60 minutes, or any.

Then tap Plan my meals.

2. What it weighs up

Pluck fills only the empty slots. Anything you’ve already planned stays where it is. For the rest, it balances three things:

Favourites and new ones. Recipes you’ve marked as favourites or cooked often are mixed with ones you saved and never tried. That’s how the backlog finally gets cooked without the week turning into an experiment.
No repeats. What you cooked recently is left out, so last week’s chili doesn’t come straight back.
Shared fresh ingredients. If Tuesday uses half a bunch of coriander, Pluck looks for a Thursday recipe that uses the rest. The review screen shows these under “Fresh ingredients used twice”.

One detail matters for trust: the AI only chooses among recipes in your recipe box. It can’t invent a dish or slip in something you never saved. The filtering, the “not again this week” rule and the ingredient overlap are worked out by the app before the AI makes its picks.

3. Review before anything is saved

You get a proposal, not a finished plan. Each meal carries a small badge that says why it’s there: Favourite, Often cooked or New to you. From here you can:

Swap a meal for another suggestion, or choose one yourself.
Remove a meal and leave that slot empty.
Regenerate the whole week if it missed the mark.

Nothing is written to your meal plan until you tap Add to plan. If you change your mind right after, there’s an Undo.

4. Get the grocery list

Once the plan is in, Pluck offers to make the grocery list for that week. It merges duplicate ingredients, adds them up and sorts them by aisle. If you share the list, everyone in the household sees it straight away.

Getting a better week out of it

Fill my week is only as good as what it has to pick from. A few habits make a visible difference:

Save more than you need. With fifteen or twenty recipes it has room to vary the week. With five it will repeat itself quickly. If your recipes are still stuck in a Saved folder, here’s how to get them out.
Mark what you cook. Tap I cooked this, or finish a recipe in cook mode. The cooking log is how Pluck knows what’s “often cooked” and what to rest for a week.
Use favourites honestly. A favourite is something you’d happily eat again, not something that looked nice.
Tag by situation. “Weeknight dinner”, “Kids like it” and “Meal prep” are more useful to a planner than “Chicken”.

What it costs

Plan	Fill my week
Free	Not included
Light	Not included
Plus	8 fills a month
Pro	30 fills a month

A fill is one proposal. Regenerating uses another one, and the app tells you before it does. Swapping, removing and adding to the plan don’t use anything.

On Free and Light you plan by hand: tap a slot, pick a recipe. The meal plan itself is free for the current week, and paid plans can plan any week.

Where it stops

To be plain about the limits:

It doesn’t generate recipes. If you want a plan made of brand-new dishes, this isn’t that. When the fridge and your recipe box don’t match, a photo of the fridge can create a single new recipe, which is a different tool for a different night.
No nutrition targets. Pluck doesn’t show calories or macros, so it can’t plan to them.
One planner per household. The meal plan is personal. The grocery list can be shared, the plan can’t.
Phone only. There’s no web version.

Other apps take different routes. Where Pluck plans from the recipes you saved, Samsung Food builds tailored weekly plans around your tastes, diet and health goals (two free, then Food+). Mealime built plans from its own recipe catalog and is discontinued as of October 21, 2026, and Plan to Eat deliberately has you plan by hand. Honeydew has an AI meal planner with weekly or monthly plans, along with nutrition and household sharing. If those are the things you need, our meal planning comparison covers the options.

The short answer

An AI meal planner is useful when it plans a week you’ll cook. That means starting from recipes you already chose, mixing the ones you love with the ones you keep meaning to try, and letting you change anything before it’s saved. Fill my week does that on Pluck’s Plus and Pro plans, and then hands you the grocery list.

Pluck is available on iOS and Android. Get it on Google Play or on the App Store. Questions about plans and limits? See our Help & FAQ.