How to Use Skylight Sidekick for Easy Weekly Meal Planning

Plan your weekly meals effortlessly with Skylight Sidekick. Schedule breakfasts, lunches, and dinners stress-free using your Recipe Box or custom meal options.

Meal Planning to be taken in the course of a week has never been so easy with Skylight Sidekick. Sidekick enables you to arrange your breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks and automatically appoint them to your calendar. You will have the ability to decide which days you would like assistance with and Sidekick can choose the meals you would like in your current Recipe Box or he/she can create completely new recipes based on your requirements. This will enable you to plan your meals weekly, stress-free, and unique to your family.

This is only available in the Calendar Plus subscription that offers the advanced features to make meal scheduling, recipe management, and grocery planning easier.

Designing a Meal Plan using Sidekick

In order to make your meal plan, you can open the Skylight Mobile App and choose your calendar. Press the Sidekick tile and then select the Plan Meals. Then choose the kind of meal you intend to prepare and choose between Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, or Snack and start to customize it to your family needs.

Adding Notes

The initial part of the planning process of a meal is to make notes on the Notes textbox. Your notes give Sidekick instructions on how to pick or create recipes that suit your needs. You can include:

  • Food requirements: Include vegan, no dairy, or gluten-free.
  • Ingredients available: List things you would like to use so as to minimize wastage.
  • Food styles: Name certain flavors or areas such as Thai, Italian or BBQ.
  • Other clues: Include any other comments regarding taste, level of spices or family preferences.

Some example notes include:

  • No dairy, have to eat up bell peppers, maybe Mexican
  • Steak and potatoes to dinner.
  • “Tonight we should go out and have Thai food, spicy.

With the introduction of detailed notes, Sidekick is able to match meals to your family tastes and dietary preferences.

Scheduling the Meal

After adding notes, it is possible to plan your meal to be consumed on certain days of the week. You may plan the meals either today, on some days or all the days of the week. The meal will be automatically added to the calendar; thus, your weekly plan will be implemented in Sidekick and easy to follow.

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All one needs to do is to tap the buttons under Which days this week? to set up the meal on the dates of your choice. This aspect will make sure that you do not forget a meal and will be able to maintain a regular meal schedule throughout the week.

Scaling the Recipe

Sidekick also allows scaling recipes according to the number of people you are feeding. In the section How many mouths to feed, the size of the serving can be adjusted by using a slider, with recipes being served to 1 to 12 people. This provides you with the right amount of recipes and eliminates food waste.

Selecting a Recipe

In What recipes, you can direct Sidekick on the location of recipes:

  • My current recipes only: Find your Recipe Box meals that match your notes.
  • Cook new recipes: AI can be used to cook new recipes according to your preference.
  • New and existing recipes: Save your Recipe Box and generated recipes and identify the best one.

This will make you have a blend of your old favorites and new and exciting food in your meal plan.

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Adding Ingredients to the Grocery List

Sidekick makes it easy to shop, as it is able to add all ingredients of a chosen recipe to your Grocery List automatically. All you need to do is to choose Add Ingredients to Grocery List and everything is on your list. This helps save on time and you can never forget an ingredient in making meals.

Skylight Sidekick assists busy families to save time, eliminate stress, and have a balanced diet by integrating meal planning, recipe selection, scaling, and grocery management. Meal planning every week is organized, efficient, and enjoyable and provides you with more time to concentrate on cooking and family.

FAQs

Skylight Sidekick is a computing assistant in the Skylight Calendar Plus subscription which assists in organizing your meals of the week. It proposes recipes, puts them on your calendar and even fills your grocery list on its own.

Yes! You are also able to hand-tailor your meal plan using the Skylight Mobile App. You can choose the meals you want to eat; breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks and add your notes or preferences.

Absolutely. You may add such information as vegan, no dairy or gluten-free in the Notes section. Sidekick then customizes your recipes to your family lifestyle and the type of food you like.

No, the Calendar Plus subscription has the ability to plan meals, manage recipes and grocery plans, which is not available to other plans.

Conclusion

It does not need to be stressful or time-consuming anymore to meal plan. Skylight Sidekick allows families to have their own, customized, and healthy menus on a weekly basis without the hassle. Easy to set preferences and scale recipes, automatic creation of grocery lists, all this makes the process easier. You can cook something for an individual or a family of four, and Sidekick makes sure that all meals should be appropriate to your lifestyle: effective, tasty, and well-considered.

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