Avocado keeps turning up in your meal plan, but nobody in your household wants it. Or someone has an allergy, and you want to stop getting recipes that list that ingredient.
You do not need to remove it from every suggested dinner. Tell NoshUp what your household eats and what you want left out. Those saved restrictions apply while browsing Recipes, assigning meals, generating plans, and building recipe-derived grocery lists.
Two ways to shape your meals
Dietary restrictions cover a short list of common diets and needs, such as vegetarian or gluten-free. Excluded ingredients lets you choose a supported, filterable ingredient you want left out of recipe suggestions, whether that is because of an allergy or simply because you dislike it.
Use either setting, or both together. A vegetarian household can still exclude avocado. A household with no dietary restrictions can keep mushrooms out of its suggestions without choosing a diet.
These are household preferences, so they apply to the shared plan rather than just one person's plate.
Dietary restrictions
- Open Settings and find Household.
- Under Dietary restrictions, tick Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten-free, or Nut allergy, as appropriate.
- Choose Save changes.
Every generated meal plan uses those saved choices, and its recipes reflect them. Some ingredients get a suitable substitute, such as a vegetarian alternative in place of meat. Other ingredients or unsuitable recipes are avoided rather than forced into a swap.
This is a fixed set of options, not a list of every possible allergy or ingredient. If you are looking for an avocado checkbox, use the field just below instead.
Excluding specific ingredients
Excluded ingredients is right below Dietary restrictions in Household settings. Start typing to search the ingredients NoshUp can currently verify and filter.
To keep avocado out:
- Open Settings and find Excluded ingredients.
- Start typing
avocado. The box suggests known ingredients as you type. - Select the matching suggestion, or choose Add when the typed term is confirmed as supported. A valid supported term can be added even if it is not visible in the short suggestion list.
- Check that avocado appears in your excluded list, then choose Save changes.
If a term is not available to filter, NoshUp does not save it as though it were active. The message in Settings offers a pre-filled Support request so you can ask us to add that ingredient. This avoids false reassurance from a misspelling or unsupported term.
Once saved, the list carries forward to every future generated plan. You do not need to remove avocado meal by meal or enter it again each week. To welcome it back later, use the remove button beside it and choose Save changes.
How this affects your meal plan and grocery list
When you generate or regenerate a plan on Meals, NoshUp will not suggest a recipe that lists an excluded ingredient. Excluding avocado means choosing other recipes, not asking you to pick it out afterwards.
The Recipes page also filters those catalogue recipes out. If you try to assign or swap in a catalogue meal that conflicts with the household exclusions, NoshUp will not let you add it. Replacement confirmation and weekly plan-rule overrides do not bypass this check.
This also applies to recipe favourites you have pinned to repeat. If your usual pinned Friday dinner contains avocado, NoshUp skips that pinned choice for the week when generating the plan. The pin does not silently override your exclusion.
The grocery list generated from the plan also leaves out excluded ingredients supplied by recipes. Avocado should not return through a recipe's shopping ingredients after you have excluded it.
Saving a preference does not rewrite user-managed grocery data. Existing lists are checked against current exclusions when you view them, and recipe-derived ingredients continue to follow the active policy.
What's not filtered
Your grocery list remains partly in your hands. Items you add manually, explicit custom ingredients for a homemade meal, and pantry or inventory restocks are not automatically removed, even when their names match an exclusion. You may be buying an item for another household member, so NoshUp preserves that deliberate choice.
Those surviving grocery rows receive a distinct red warning label. The highlight is a reminder that the name matches an excluded ingredient. It does not remove or check off the item, and it is not proof that a product or recipe is safe.
Think of these preferences as help with meal planning, not a replacement for checking recipes and food labels when managing an allergy.
Other ways to customize your plan
In Settings, Cultural module chooses your cuisine focus: Indian, Italian, Mexican, or an Everyday Variety mix, for example. Switching cuisines is a Pro feature and applies to your next generated plan.
On Meals, open Filters & Tools for choices about this week:
- Dates & Meal Types lets you skip breakfast, plan only dinners, or select your own mix.
- Servings & Leftovers helps you plan dinner leftovers for lunch.
- Constraints lets you choose a weekly theme or a Calories per serving target, where verified calorie information is available.
Start with the ingredients you want left out. Then shape the week around the meals you actually need.