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Welcome to MealGrid

This is your guide to getting started, understanding how everything connects, and making MealGrid work for your life. Read through once to orient yourself — then come back whenever you need a refresher.

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🏁 Getting Started Checklist

• 🚀 Getting Started with MealGrid ai — your post-download onboarding guide (orientation → AI activation → personalization → first use).
  • If you don’t see it in your sidebar, open it from the Entry Page (MealGrid ai) or search your workspace for: Getting Started with MealGrid ai.

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Your first five minutes (Orientation-first)

• [ ] Read this page top to bottom
• [ ] Open MealGrid ai (Entry Page) and look around (read-only)
• [ ] Open MealGrid Dashboard (Command Center) and look around (read-only)
• [ ] Click into: Recipes, Pantry, Menus, Shopping List (browse only)
• [ ] When you’re ready, follow 🚀 Getting Started to activate MealGrid AI (one-time setup), then personalize MealGrid Configuration </aside>

🧩 How MealGrid Is Organized

MealGrid is organized into three layers:

• Core — the pages you’ll use every day (Recipes, Pantry, Menus, Shopping)
• Supporting — the databases that power everything behind the scenes (like ingredients and linking tables)
• Governance — the rules and conventions that keep the system consistent (like naming + status rules)

In day-to-day use, you’ll mostly live in these four core areas:

• 📚 Recipes — your recipe library
• 🥦 Pantry — your ingredient inventory
• 🍽️ Menus — your planning hub
• 🛒 Shopping — your shopping companion

🔄 The MealGrid Workflow

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From menu to shopping list in four steps

1. Build your menu — open Menus, create a new menu, add recipes.
2. Set to Planning — triggers your AI team to check your pantry and build your shopping list.
3. Shop — open ‣ on your phone. Check items off as you go.
4. Complete your menu — set Status to Completed. MealGrid stamps your recipes with Last Cooked and updates your pantry. </aside>

🤖 Your MealGrid AI Team