Make-ahead plannerMicromedia Digital

When will you cook each dish, so December isn't a crush?

Add your dishes, the evenings and weekends you can cook, and your free freezer space. It works back from the big day, fits dishes into your cooking sessions, tallies the freezer and lists the move-to-fridge days you set. Every storage time is the one you enter. Nothing leaves this device.

Your plan

Your make-ahead plan

Add your dishes and cooking sessions to see your plan.

Your data

Everything is saved on this device as you go. Use Export in the top bar to keep a backup file.

How to use it (a minute)

  1. Press "Load sample data" to see a finished plan, then delete a cooking session on the Dates tab and watch the dishes move. Or start with your own plan.
  2. On Dates, check your event date and add the cooking sessions you really have: a date and the minutes free.
  3. On Dishes, add what you want to make ahead. For each dish, enter where it's kept, how long it keeps (from your recipe or official guidance), the days before the event to move it to the fridge, your prep minutes and the container size. A fridge or pantry dish is placed only once you add how long it keeps, or when you pick its session yourself.
  4. Read the Plan: it fits dishes into sessions in date order, shows the freezer peak against your free space, and warns in words when a dish is made too late, or too early for the keeps-for time you entered.
  5. Print the plan, or print freezer labels. Use Export to keep a backup file.