QuickBites
QuickBites are grocery bundles — a title plus a flat ingredient list — for the things that aren’t full recipes. Snacks, breakfast staples, pantry restocks, meal-prep items.
How they appear on the Menu
Each category groups its QuickBites under its recipes, in an indented zone labeled Quick Bites. Each QuickBite gets the same checkbox and availability pill as a recipe — green ✓ when on hand, amber Need N when short. Tap the pill for the Have / Missing breakdown.
Selecting a QuickBite flows its ingredients into Groceries and Pantry the same way a selected recipe’s ingredients do.
Unchecking a QuickBite doesn’t feed the Dinner picker’s recency weighting — that signal comes from recipes only.
Edit QuickBites
The editor opens in two ways:
- Edit QuickBites in the Menu page header — opens with all categories visible
- edit inside any category’s Quick Bites zone — opens with that category expanded
The editor offers two modes; tap the toggle in the dialog to switch. Your choice is remembered for next time, and shared with the recipe editor.
- Plaintext — edit the text format directly
- Graphical — a card per category, with rows for each item
Switching mid-edit round-trips your work through the parser. Valid content survives losslessly; a malformed plaintext line surfaces as a save warning.
Renaming costs the selection
Saving the editor replaces the entire QuickBites list, then re-attaches Menu selections by title. Rename a QuickBite and its checkmark on the Menu is dropped — re-tick it after the save. Reordering and editing ingredients are safe.
The plaintext format
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.