QuickBites
QuickBites are grocery bundles — a name plus a flat ingredient list — for the things that aren’t full recipes. Snacks, breakfast staples, pantry restocks, meal-prep items.
They live on the Menu page. You make one there, and making it puts it on the menu.
Add a QuickBite
- On the Menu page, tap Add items in the header — or the small + on the category heading you want it under.
- Tap ＋ New QuickBite at the bottom right of the list that opens.
- Fill in the dialog and tap Save.
The QuickBite joins the menu as you save it, in its category’s Quick Bites list. There’s no second step to put it there.
A category’s + fills the Category field in for you. Every category in your kitchen has a heading on the Menu page — even ones with nothing on them — so this works for a category you’ve never used. Add items in the header opens the whole kitchen’s list instead, so the dialog asks: Category starts on Choose a category…, and Save won’t go through until you pick one.
The dialog’s fields:
- Name — what shows on the menu row.
- Category — where the QuickBite lives. Pick a different one to move it to another category. Every category in your kitchen is offered, including ones with nothing on the menu yet.
- Ingredients — one per row. Tap + Add ingredient for another row; reorder or remove a row with its controls. Leave this empty and the item’s own name goes on the grocery list.
Edit or delete a QuickBite
Every QuickBite row on the menu ends in a ⋮. Open it and tap Edit to reopen the dialog with that item loaded. Change the name, ingredients, or category, then tap Save. Tap Delete to remove it for good — you confirm first.
A QuickBite that’s off the menu has no row, and so no ⋮. Edit it from the add list instead: open Add items (or a category’s +), find the QuickBite — its row carries a small QuickBite tag — and tap the ✎ at the right of it. The list closes and the same dialog opens, Delete and all. You never have to put a QuickBite back on the menu to change it.
Renaming a QuickBite keeps its place on the menu.
How they appear on the Menu
QuickBites gather in a small Quick Bites list under each category’s recipes, in alphabetical order.
Each QuickBite row has the same ⋮ menu as a recipe — a Missing / Have ingredient breakdown against your Pantry, plus Edit and Remove from menu when you’ve used it up.
Adding a QuickBite to the menu flows its ingredients into Groceries and Pantry the same way a recipe’s ingredients do. Taking it off the menu drops them again.
Removing a QuickBite from the menu doesn’t delete it. It goes back to the add list, under its category, where Add items finds it again — see Selecting recipes.
The plaintext format
QuickBites travel as plain text. An export writes them to a text file inside the ZIP, and an import reads that file back, merging by name. You never type this format in the app — every QuickBite you add or change goes through the dialog.
QuickBites are grouped under a category heading. Each line is an entry:
## Snacks
- Apples and Honey: Apples, Honey
- Crackers and Cheese: Ritz crackers, Cheddar
## Breakfast
- Cereal and Milk: Rolled oats, Milk
- Toast and Butter: Bread, Butter
The shape is - Title: Ingredient, Ingredient, .... For a single-ingredient bundle, drop the colon — the title doubles as the ingredient:
## Produce
- Bananas
This is not the recipe markdown format — there are no steps, sections, or front matter. QuickBites are intentionally one-line.
See also
Last updated August 26, 2026