Your first week with Fridge Door: a day-by-day plan
Fridge Door does a lot, and nobody needs all of it on day one. Here's a plan for the first week that gets the whole family using it, a little each day, so by the weekend it's simply how your house runs.
Day 1: save five recipes
Start with the meals your family already eats. Open Recipes, choose Add recipe, and paste links from the sites you cook from, or save one from a photo of a recipe card. Five is plenty to plan with. Got a collection in another app? Bring it all in at once.
Day 2: plan this week
Open Plan and put a recipe on a few dinners. Make your weekly favourite repeat with Repeat every week, and try Fill the week for the rest. The weekly meal planning guide has the shortcuts.
Day 3: share the list
Choose Add to shopping list on the Plan page, untick what you already have, and the week's ingredients are on one list. Invite the other parent so it's on their phone too, and add Fridge Door to your home screen so the list works in the store with no signal.
Day 4: bring in the calendars
Add the family's events, and follow the calendars you already use: work, school, the soccer team. Give each person a colour, and the week is in one place. The family calendar guide shows how.
Day 5: the kids' routines
Add the kids on the Family page, set a parent PIN, then set up a short morning routine for each child with a reward to save for. The morning routine guide has example steps by age.
Day 6: the kitchen screen
Put a tablet on the counter and pair it. Now the meals, calendar, lists and routines are where everyone walks past. The old tablet guide covers stands and settings.
Day 7: look back and tweak
Rate the meals you cooked with a thumbs up or down, so Fill the week learns what your family likes. Plan next week in five minutes, and turn on reminders for prep and dinner.
Questions
Do we have to set everything up?
No. Plenty of families only use the recipes, plan and list, or only the calendar and routines. Everything else stays out of the way until you need it.
How long does the free trial last?
30 days, with everything included and no card needed to start. If a friend invited you with their link, you get 60.
Can the kids use it?
Yes, on the kitchen screen, without a login. They tick off their routines, chores and the shopping list, and cook from recipes. Changing anything important needs a parent's PIN.
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