Frequently Asked Questions
This page is intended to provide more detailed information about One Click Dinners through a question and answer style dialogue. Click any topic heading on this page to see all FAQs for that topic. Click any page title on this site (and most topic headings) to get specific topic-level help.
Getting Started!
- Can you give me a quick overview of how to plan my meals? Answer
- How do I create a meal plan using the Meal Planner? Answer
Meal Planner
About the Meal Collections
- What happens when I select one of “Meal Collections:” buttons? Answer
- What is the difference between each of the four meal collections? Answer
Mixing meals
- Can I select meals from different meal collections to make my meal plan for the week? Answer
Not Enough Meals... message
- I requested a few meals to be selected, but got the following message, why? Answer
'There are not enough meals to satisfy your meal selection request.' - What can I do to remedy this situation? Answer
Meal Approval
Controlling the Selection
- How does the meal approval process work? Answer
- How does searching and adding new meals work? Answer
- Why are recipes that I don't like being selected? Answer
Grocery List
Grocery List Preview
- How do I get my grocery list? Answer
- Why do I need to preview my grocery list? Answer
- How do I print my grocery list? Answer
Printer-Friendly Grocery List
- Why do you create a printer-friendly grocery list? Answer
Meal Selection
Managing Meals
- Where can I find my approved meals and recipes? Answer
- How can I view and print the recipes? Answer
- Can I print a dinner menu with my meals for the week? Answer
- Can I reprint my grocery list? Answer
Repeating Meals
- How often will the same meals be selected for me? Answer
- Can I control when a meal will be selected for me again? Answer
- Can I comment and rate on the meals I have made? Answer
Family Profile
About the Family Profile
- How does my Family Profile influence my meal plan? Answer
About My Meal Preferences
- What are "My Meal Preferences"? Answer
- How does the Meal Planner know a meal's main ingredient and flavor? Answer
- How do I customize "My Meal Preferences"? Answer
- Can I give a zero to a main ingredient I don't like? Answer
- How can I make sure I won't get any side dish recipes with pork? Answer
Ingredient Exclusions
- What are "My Exclusions"? Answer
- Why do you recommend limiting my ingredient exclusions to 100 or fewer? Answer
- Can I exclude an entire group of ingredients all at once? Answer
Family Recipe Box
Adding Your Own Recipes
- Why should I add my own recipes? Answer
- How can I add my own recipes? Answer
- Do you have any tips for adding recipes? Answer
Need a New Ingredient
- My recipe calls for an ingredient that is not in the ingredient list. Can it be added? Answer
Adding Your Own Meals
- Why should I make my recipes into meals? Answer
- How do I make my recipes into meals? Answer
- How can I see my meals? Answer
- Can I change my meals? Answer
- Can I select a mix of my private meals and some from the published meal collections? Answer
Published Recipes
About the recipe collection
- What are published recipes? Answer
Searching the recipes
Recipe Details
Recipe Categorization
Rate and review recipes
Other links from the recipe detail page
- Can I email recipes to friends? Answer
- How do I print a recipe? Answer
- How can I find out more about an ingredient? Answer
Additional recipe information
- What information can I find under Cook's Notes? Answer
- What information can I find in the Short Cuts section? Answer
- What is Variation for Children all about? Answer
A word about scaling a recipe's serving size
- Why don't you automatically scale the recipe fit my family? Answer
