Moving from another app

Moving from Grocery to Menu Planner 2

Menu Planner 2 brings over every recipe you have in Grocery in one go. Export them from Grocery, open the file in Menu Planner 2, and they’re in your Kitchen, ready to plan meals with.

1. Find your Grocery recipes

  1. Grocery keeps each recipe as a file in iCloud Drive, in the Grocery folder.

2. Open them in Menu Planner 2

  1. In Menu Planner 2, open the Kitchen, choose New Recipe, then From Other Recipe Apps. You’ll also find Import Recipes from Other Apps in Settings, under Import & Export.
  2. Pick Grocery in the list, then Choose File, and pick a recipe from the Grocery folder in iCloud Drive.
  3. Every recipe in the file is selected, except ones that look like recipes you already have. Choose Import, and they’re in your Kitchen.

Steps for each device are in the Help Guide: Moving your recipes from another recipe app.

All the apps Menu Planner 2 imports from →

What comes across

  • Each recipe’s name, its ingredients (with their headings) and its steps
  • Photos
  • Descriptions
  • Where each recipe came from
  • Notes
  • Categories, as tags. Any tag you don’t have yet is made for you.

Each one comes across when Grocery’s file has it.

Good to know

  • Importing is free, and you don’t need an account.
  • Your recipes in Grocery aren’t changed.
  • You can stop the import at any time. The recipes imported so far stay.
  • Recipes that look like ones you already have start unselected, so importing the same file twice doesn’t make copies.

Don’t have Menu Planner 2 yet?

It’s free on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android. Plan the week with your recipes, get one shopping list sorted by your store’s aisles, and cook step by step.

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