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Guide 6 · MyMenus

MyMenus

Named, reusable menus built from your recipe library — restaurant-style, sections and all — and how they hand off to the week you actually plan.

Sections & dishes

Inside a menu, dishes live in named sections you control — “Mains,” “Desserts,” whatever fits. A dish itself is one of three things: a recipe from your library, a bare food from the Food Guide (no recipe needed — just an ingredient, like “fresh strawberries”), or a free-text note for anything that isn’t either.

A menu called Sunday Supper Club rendered in the Chalkboard Bistro design — a To start section with two foods, then Mains, with a “77% from your kitchen” line under the title

That’s a real menu, in one of the twenty designs — the same page its section on designs below describes. Note the line under the title: FoodGenie scores the whole menu against your kitchen, so a menu tells you how much of itself you could already cook tonight.

Edit mode

Only the menu’s owner — whoever created it — sees an “Edit menu” button. Tap it and the whole page becomes a live editor: rename or reorder sections, add or remove dishes, delete a section. Tap “Done editing” and it’s read-only again for everyone, owner included.

  • Everyone else sees a clean menu

    Other household members can open recipes and browse the menu like any reader — no add, remove, or reorder controls ever appear for them.

  • Reading a recipe always works

    Tapping into a recipe from a menu is normal navigation, in or out of edit mode — "read-only" describes the dish list’s own controls, not the recipes themselves.

“View as” designs

Once you’re editing, a “Design” dropdown lets you present the same menu as one of twenty restaurant-style layouts — a chalkboard bistro board, a diner menu, a newspaper broadsheet, a scrapbook pinboard, and more — plus the plain white “List” layout menus start with.

A design isn’t just for looking at, either. The same styled menu is what the planner shows in its side panel and what the dashboard shows under “Your menus” — and in both places you can add a dish straight off it into a meal. See Plan from your menus for how that works.

The dashboard's Your menus zone, showing a styled menu with a + button beside each dish for adding it to today

Household sharing

By default, every menu you create is visible to your whole household — no separate invite or share step. A small sharing control lets the owner narrow that down, or open it further:

  • Private

    Only you can see this menu.

  • Household

    Everyone in your household can see it — the default.

  • Link

    Anyone with the link can view it (read-only).

A separate, owner-only switch — “Share to my network” — additionally posts the menu to your accepted MyChefs friends’ feeds. It’s off by default and entirely independent of the household setting above.

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