Leftover intelligence

Good food shouldn't get forgotten in the back of the fridge. When it fits, Forkboard threads one night's cook into a later meal — Monday's roast chicken becomes Thursday's tacos — so the week uses what it already made.

Because the board sees all seven nights at once, it can plan a Monday cook and a Thursday meal as one connected idea rather than two unrelated dinners. That's where leftover intelligence lives — in the plan itself.

How chaining happens

Chaining is decided when you generate a plan, not by a switch you flip afterward. As the week is drafted, Forkboard looks for places where one night's meal can carry naturally into a later one, links them, and notes the connection on the day that receives the leftovers.

1. Generate a plan on the Board for the current week.
2. Where it fits, the receiving day is marked with the meal it carries forward from — so you can see Thursday is built on Monday at a glance.
3. Open the source night's recipe: it tells you to cook a deliberately bigger batch, enough to carry into the later day.
4. Open the later night's recipe: it picks that food back up and turns it into something new.

Servings still read per night

The bigger batch lives in the source night's instructions, not in its numbers. Each meal's stated serving count is still simply how many you're cooking for that night — the same as every other day. Only the recipe steps tell you to make extra, so the count you read never has to do double duty.

Pinned days can feed the rest of the week

A day you've pinned is fair game as a leftover source. If you've locked in Sunday's slow-cooked something, the rest of the planned week can be built to lean on it — the chain works around the nights you've already decided.

Your grocery list keeps up on its own

There's nothing extra to manage on the shopping side. Your grocery list is summed straight from the week's planned meals, so a chained week is already accounted for — you buy for the bigger source batch once, and the later meal draws from it instead of asking you to shop twice.

Leftover chaining is a planning behavior, not a button or setting. There's no control to toggle it on the grocery page — it's simply part of how a week comes together when the meals line up.

Related: Building your grocery list · Planning your week