Wholesum turns your recipes into scaled meal plans and ready-to-use shopping lists for groups of any size. Everything you do follows three steps:
- My recipes — add the recipes you cook, written for any number of servings.
- Ingredients — tell Wholesum where you buy each ingredient, which department it lives in, and what it costs.
- Meal plans — choose who you're feeding and when, drop recipes onto a calendar, and Wholesum scales every recipe to your headcount and builds one combined shopping list.
You can come back to any step at any time. For example, editing a price on the Ingredients page updates the cost of every recipe and meal plan that uses it.
Your Home page
After you log in you land on your Home page. The three large cards match the three steps above. Click Go to recipes →, Go to ingredients → or Go to meal plans → to jump straight in.
The Home page, with the three step cards and quick links
- Quick Intro (2 min) plays a short overview video.
- Take a tour walks you through the main areas of Wholesum again. The tour runs automatically the first time you log in.
- The quick links along the bottom open Settings, Help & Support, the Community Forum and Cookbooks.
Brand-new account? The Ingredients and Meal plans cards stay locked until you've added your first recipe. Meal plans and shopping lists are built from your recipes, so start with Add your first recipe →.
Finding your way around
The menu bar at the top of every page takes you to each area:
The main menu bar
| Menu item | What it opens |
|---|---|
| Home | Your Home page |
| My recipes | Your recipe library |
| Ingredients | Prices, stores, departments and details for every ingredient |
| Meal plans | Your meal plans, folders and shopping lists |
Click your name in the top-right corner to open your account menu:
The account menu
- Account — your name, email, password, currency, date format and public profile.
- Settings — the preferences that control how Wholesum behaves for your account.
- Subscription — your plan, payment card and billing history.
- Log out.
Team members invited to someone else's account only see Account and Log out here. Settings and billing belong to the account owner.
While you're on your free trial
During your 14-day free trial, a bar under the menu shows how many trial days you have left. Its Subscription link takes you to the pricing page, where you can choose a plan at any time.
Watch a full walkthrough
Prefer to watch? This recorded webinar walks through all of Wholesum's main features, from recipes to finished shopping lists.
