Plan camp meals and auto-build your shopping list

Lay out each trip's menu day by day and get a party-size-scaled shopping list automatically — no more guessing at the grocery store.

Feeding a fishing camp is its own logistics problem: you have to know who's in camp, how many days, and exactly how much food to buy — and a half-day drive from the trailhead is a bad time to run short. Fishing Outfitter's meal planner turns that into a few clicks: plan each trip's meals on a day-by-day grid, and a complete shopping list builds itself, scaled to that trip's headcount.

Why outfitters use it

• Stop over- and under-buying — quantities scale to the actual party size, so you buy for the anglers you have, not a guess.
• One organized buy-list — every meal's ingredients combined into a single list, each item once, summed across the days a dish repeats, ready to print and take to the store.
• A professional touch for anglers — the menu they see in their portal comes straight from the plan, so they know what's for dinner before they arrive.
• Plan around dietary needs — the booked anglers' restrictions for a trip are shown right on the planner.
• Let your cook own it — cooks get the same planner from their own screen, so you don't have to.

Build your recipe library

Open Menu from the left nav. The Recipe Library tab is your reusable list of dishes — each with a name, a category (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks), ingredients, and a default serving size. Build it once and reuse it across every trip.

Plan a trip's meals

1. On the Menu page, open the Plan Meals tab.
2. Pick a trip — you'll see a card for each day of that trip, dated from its start.
3. Add recipes from your library to each day. A dish can repeat across days.
4. The shopping list below updates automatically as you assign meals.

Your shopping list builds itself

As you plan, the buy-list at the bottom of the Plan Meals tab aggregates every assigned meal's ingredients into one line per item, scaled to the trip's party size. Party size comes from the number of anglers booked on the trip (falling back to the trip's capacity if you haven't booked them yet). Print it and shop.

Need a different count for one dish — a big group dinner, or a light breakfast? Use the Serves control on any planned meal to override the servings for just that item; everything else stays scaled to the party.

What your anglers see

The menu in each angler's portal is derived from their trip's plan — they see the meals planned for their days, by name and description only. Your ingredient quantities and serving counts stay on your side; anglers never see the buy-list.

The standalone Shopping list

The Shopping list page (separate from the meal planner) is for ad-hoc items you add by hand — propane, ice, batteries — grouped by store. The meal-driven, party-size buy-list lives on the Plan Meals tab; the two work side by side.