Support Page - DinnerOrg
DinnerOrg Support
A little help with what’s for dinner.
Find answers to common questions about your meals, weekly plans, shopping lists and shared household.
Need a hand? Email admin@aventurier.cc.
Getting started
How does DinnerOrg work?
DinnerOrg brings your meal collection, weekly dinner plan and shopping list together. Save the meals your household enjoys, choose your planning preferences and generate a week of dinners. Ingredients from planned meals are added to your shopping list.
You can change the plan whenever life changes.
How do I add a meal?
Open Meals and tap the + button. Add a name, choose a category and enter the ingredients. You can also save notes, a recipe link and a photo.
Start with a few favourites. Your meal collection can grow as you go.
Can I create my own categories and filters?
Yes. In Meals, use Edit Categories or Edit Filters to organise your collection around your household.
Categories group meals and help set the mix for your week. Filters add useful labels, such as vegetarian, quick or kid-approved.
Can I save a recipe from a website?
You can add a website address to a meal’s recipe field and open it from DinnerOrg. Enter the ingredients separately so they can be used in your shopping list.
Planning dinners
How does DinnerOrg choose meals?
DinnerOrg chooses from your saved meals using your planner preferences. You can adjust the category mix, avoid recently planned meals, favour particular filters and prioritise seasonal produce.
A larger meal collection gives the planner more variety.
Can I plan weekdays only?
Yes. Turn on Weekdays only in Planner Preferences. DinnerOrg will generate Monday to Friday and leave your weekend meals as they are.
Can I change a generated plan?
Yes. You can choose a different meal, swap dinners between days, move a dinner or try a random suggestion. Leave a day blank when you don’t need a meal planned.
How do I keep a dinner I’ve already chosen?
Lock that dinner before generating the plan again. You can also lock the whole week once you’re happy with it. Unlock it when you’re ready to make changes.
Why has DinnerOrg left a day empty?
There may not be enough eligible meals, particularly if you’re avoiding meals used in recent weeks.
Try adding more meals, reducing repeat avoidance or choosing a meal manually.
Are filters strict dietary restrictions?
No. Planner filters are preferences. DinnerOrg favours matching meals but may use other meals to fill the week.
Check each meal and its ingredients before using the plan for any dietary requirement.
What does seasonal planning do?
It gives preference to meals containing produce that is in season in your selected region. It helps guide the plan while leaving room for other meals when more choices are needed.
Location access is optional.
Shopping lists
Do planned meals automatically add ingredients?
Yes. Ingredients saved with your planned meals are added to the shopping list for the relevant week. Check that a meal has ingredients entered if nothing appears.
You can edit the list and remove anything you already have.
Can I add groceries that aren’t part of a meal?
Yes. Add items directly in Shopping. For things you buy regularly, open Manage staple groceries in the shopping options.
You can add staples when needed or enable them to be added when a week is generated.
Why is an ingredient listed more than once?
DinnerOrg combines matching ingredients where it can. Different ingredient names or units can keep items separate. Using consistent names and units in your meals helps keep the list tidy.
Where has my shopping item gone?
Check that you’re viewing the correct shopping week. Items you tick off move out of the active list, and bought items can be removed using Clear bought.
Meal ingredients are linked to the plan, so changing or removing a planned dinner can also change its shopping items.
Sharing and syncing
Can I share DinnerOrg with my household?
Yes. Open Settings → Household sharing and choose Share household to invite someone through iCloud.
People who join can view and edit shared meals, dinner plans and shopping lists. Each person needs iCloud available on their device.
Do I need an internet connection?
Your core meal planning and shopping features work locally. An internet connection and iCloud are needed for household syncing and cloud backups. Opening recipe websites also needs a connection.
Why aren’t changes appearing on another device?
Check that both devices have an internet connection and are signed in to the appropriate iCloud accounts. For household sharing, make sure the invitation has been accepted.
Keep DinnerOrg open on both devices to give syncing time to complete. If a warning appears, tap Retry sync.
What does “Saving needs attention” mean?
DinnerOrg has encountered a problem saving your latest changes. Keep the app open and tap Retry.
If the warning remains, contact support before changing household sharing or reinstalling the app.
Backups and data
How do I back up DinnerOrg?
Open Settings → Data & Backups. Daily iCloud backups are enabled by default, and you can create one manually with Back Up Now.
Backups need iCloud to be available.
Can I restore an earlier backup?
Yes. In Data & Backups, select a saved backup and review its contents before restoring it.
Restoring replaces your current DinnerOrg data. The app creates a safety backup first. If you use a shared household, changes to shared data may also affect other participants.
Does turning off backups delete old ones?
No. It stops new automatic backups. Existing backups remain, and deleting a meal from the app does not remove its copies from older backups.
Can I import or export my meals?
Yes. Open Settings → Meal CSV and choose Download meal CSV or Import meal CSV.
For the easiest starting point, export your meals and use that file’s format when preparing an import. A meal CSV is separate from a full DinnerOrg backup.
Reminders and settings
How do defrost reminders work?
DinnerOrg checks planned meals for meat and seafood ingredients and can send a reminder at 8 pm the night before, 7 am on the day, or both.
Manage these in Settings → Defrost reminders. Reminders are based on ingredient names; DinnerOrg does not know whether an ingredient is actually frozen.
Why am I not getting reminders?
Check that defrost notifications and at least one reminder time are enabled in DinnerOrg. Also check that notifications are allowed for DinnerOrg in your iPhone’s Settings.
The meal needs recognised meat or seafood ingredients, and the reminder time must still be in the future.
Can I change text size or measurement units?
Yes. In Settings, you can adjust shopping list text size and choose your measurement system. You can also change the colour theme and app icon.
Does DinnerOrg include supermarket specials?
The App Store version does not fetch supermarket specials.
Privacy
What happens to my data?
DinnerOrg saves your meals, plans, shopping lists and preferences on your device and uses Apple’s iCloud services for syncing, sharing and backups.
DinnerOrg does not include advertising or third-party analytics SDKs. Read the Privacy Policy for more detail.
Still need help?
For technical help, feedback, feature requests or privacy questions, email admin@aventurier.cc.
If something isn’t working, please include:
Your DinnerOrg version and build, shown in Settings.
Your iPhone model and iOS version.
What you were doing and what happened.
The exact error message, or a screenshot if helpful.
Please leave out private household information unless it is needed to explain the issue and you’re comfortable sharing it.