A meal plan is only useful if it’s still in your head at five o’clock on a Wednesday. The latest updates are about exactly that: Sorrel remembering the plan so you don’t have to.
Meal reminders
Turn on Meal reminders in Settings and choose how: one summary each morning (8:00 by default, or whenever you like), or a nudge one, two or three hours before each meal. They only come on days with something planned. If you keep your Kitchen up to date, the reminder also says what the meal is missing — with a button that adds those things to your grocery list without even opening the app.
A heads-up the evening before
The trouble with some recipes starts the night before. Turn on the evening heads-up and Sorrel sends one quiet notice — at 7 pm unless you pick another time — when tomorrow needs something from you today:
- Thaw — something tomorrow’s meal needs is only in the freezer.
- Prep — the recipe marinates overnight, or has to sit for four hours or more.
- Use by — something on your shelves should be used tomorrow.
If there’s nothing to say, it says nothing.
Your meals in your calendar
Pick a calendar on your phone and Sorrel adds the next two weeks of meals to it, so dinner sits next to everything else in your day. The events don’t ring and don’t mark you as busy, Sorrel only ever touches the events it wrote, and disconnecting removes them all. On iPhone the calendar catches up each time you open Sorrel. And the home-screen widget shows tonight’s dinner — on Android it updates the moment the plan changes.
Plans that know what you can’t eat
Tell Sorrel about diets and allergies in Settings under Your kitchen, and planning respects them. A recipe that breaks a diet or contains an allergen is left out of the week entirely — Sorrel checks the title, the ingredients and the steps — and it tells you how many it skipped and why, even if that means the week comes up a meal short. Two optional leans help too: Keep it thrifty and Cook what I have in.
That applies both to auto-fill, which plans your week from your library on your phone and is free, and to letting Sorrel arrange the week for you with Sorrel Pro. Your diets and allergies are never sent to our servers either way.
A grocery list that adds up
When you add a week of meals to the list, Sorrel now merges what belongs together: scallions and green onions become one line, and amounts add up across units — a tablespoon here and a teaspoon there become 1⅓ tablespoons. Volumes and weights are never mixed. Before anything is added you can choose what you actually need, and things already in your Kitchen start unticked, marked In your kitchen.
Adding an item by hand is faster, too: as you type, Sorrel suggests things you’ve bought before and everyday groceries (that built-in list is in English for now), and a tap adds it. And you can tick everything, untick everything or clear the list in one go.
Search that finds it
Library search now looks through everything — titles, ingredients, steps, tags, notes and where a recipe came from — word by word, in any order, ignoring accents, with the best match first. “creme” finds crème brûlée. And when you filter the Library by tag, the matching tags appear as you type.