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by bradyo 3617 days ago
This is great. It seems that I can't select multiple dietary requirements though (like vegetarian and clean eating). On Firefox mobile. Is that intentional or are some of the dietary requirement s non-compatible?

Also, is there any way to specify I'd like to meal prep more than just sharing a dinner with the next day's leftovers? E.g. Make a weeks worth of meals at once by scaling a particular recipe? I suppose I could do that myself buy having the software advise my grocery list would be awesome.

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Hi! Some of the dietary preferences can't be combined because we don't have enough recipes to support the combination (at least not yet!). We're working on batch cooking, so that should help. Currently, it takes hacks to achieve that kind of thing (like adding more family members, e.g., Daniel, Daniel Leftovers, and Daniel Leftovers 2). If you have a slow cooker, you could select that in the appliances section and then just make sure that under time constraints, you select "more than 50 minutes" for dinners. Slow cooker recipes scale up well if you do that multiple family members trick. I hope that helps!
I tried simulating this by checking Clean Eating and either checking off the pre-populated meats or searching for meats I could think of and selecting all results and plenty of recipes came up, so it seems like these two dietary restrictions should be allowed to be chosen at the same time.

Also, I checked off the pre-populated "Beef" option and a recipe came up for breakfast involving sausage and another came up for dinner involving Filet Mignon.

Thanks for the feedback! We like to make sure we have enough new recipes for many months of using the service before allowing two categories to be combined, but you're welcome to hack it that way for now. Filet mignon was a glitch (we just fixed it) but the sausage is made of pork.