You just made an account. Now there are two big cards on the screen and one decision to make.
Here is what each card does, so you can pick one and get on with it.
The two cards
Onboarding opens on a screen titled Choose your experience. Under the title is one line: "Most households start with full planning. You can change this any time from the dashboard."
Then come two cards.
The first is marked Recommended. It is called Full meal planning experience, and it says: "Weekly meal plans and grocery lists shaped around your household, set up in a few quick questions."
The second is Recipe library only: "Browse and save recipes right away. Planning stays one tap away whenever you want it."
In plain terms, the first card asks you some questions and gives you a week of meals with a grocery list. The second card asks you nothing and puts you in the recipes.
Tap a card and NoshUp saves your choice before it moves you on. If the save fails, you stay on this screen with a message: "We could not save your choice. Please try again." You can tap again.
What full meal planning does
Choose Full meal planning experience and NoshUp opens a short setup. It shows one screen at a time, with a row of dots at the top to track your progress. There are five screens, in this order:
- Name your household. Type a name for your household. This screen also asks for your region, Canada or India, and a postal or PIN code, which NoshUp uses to match local flyer deals.
- Who's eating? Set how many adults and how many kids. If you have kids, you also choose an age range. Your household size sets the budget range NoshUp suggests on the next screen.
- Food preferences. Pick a cuisine, such as Indian, Italian, or Everyday Variety, then choose any dietary needs. Everyday Variety mixes cuisines across the week, so it fits a household that does not stick to one.
- Monthly budget. Enter a monthly target in Canadian dollars. NoshUp tracks your spending against it, and shows an estimated range for your household size as a starting point.
- Dinner's figured out. A recap of your answers, two optional questions (what brought you here, and your main grocery day), and a button: View your meal plan.
Screens two to four have a Skip button if you would rather not answer. Skipping the food preferences screen sets your cuisine to Everyday Variety. Every screen after the first has a Back button. If you reload the page partway through, setup picks up at the step you reached.
The result is a weekly meal plan with a matching grocery list. Changing it afterwards is a separate job: swapping a meal, leaving room for a night out, or planning only dinners. That is all covered in Planning your week of meals with NoshUp.
Coming from Mealime? The first screen has a question for you, and the rest of that route is in How to move from Mealime to NoshUp.
What the recipe library does
Choose Recipe library only and every question is skipped. You land straight on the recipe library. There is nothing else to set up.
From there you browse and save recipes. Search, filters, and recipe details are covered in Finding a recipe and adding it to your week.
Skipping the setup has one catch. NoshUp has not been told who is eating or what you avoid, and it does not build a weekly plan for you at this point. Read a recipe's ingredient list before you cook it. Do not assume the library has been shaped around your household yet.
This path is a good fit if you want to look around before you tell NoshUp anything, or if you only came for the recipes.
Which one to pick, and adding planning later
Pick Full meal planning experience if you want NoshUp to hand you a week of meals and a grocery list. You answer a few questions once, and the plan is shaped around your answers. It is the card marked Recommended, and the screen itself says most households start there.
Pick Recipe library only if you want to look first. You can browse and save recipes with no setup, and decide about planning later.
If you start with the library and change your mind, your dashboard shows a Set up your household card. It reads: "Tell us who's eating and what you like, takes under a minute." Its button takes you back to onboarding and the five screens above. Finish them and you get what the first card gives you: a weekly meal plan and a matching grocery list. One exception: answer Yes, import recipes on the first screen's "Coming from Mealime?" question and finishing takes you to the recipe import page first. Your plan is generated once you tap Continue to my week there.
Not signed up yet? Create an account, and onboarding opens on this choice.