Rating & reporting meals · Forkboard Help

Two small acts steer the board. A thumbs up or down is a private taste signal — it quietly teaches what your household wants to cook again and what to retire. A report is something else: a quality or safety flag on the recipe itself. They live in different places and do different work.

A private taste signal — and a quality flag.

Rate a meal

On a dinner card's rating bar — or inside the recipe view — tap thumbs up for a keeper or thumbs down for a miss.
Once you've voted, an optional note field appears. Jot why it worked or why not; it saves when you tap away. Notes are capped at 280 characters.
Changed your mind? Tap the other thumb. To clear the rating entirely, tap the active thumb again.

Ratings are per person. Everyone in the household votes for themselves, and every vote informs future plans. The household's loved or vetoed badge, though, is decided only by owner and admin votes — any admin thumbs down marks a meal vetoed, and an admin thumbs up with no admin thumbs down marks it loved. A member or child rating still teaches the board; it just doesn't drive the badge.

Rating works on the current week only. Past weeks are read-only — you can still open a recipe and report a problem, but the thumbs are gone.

Report a problem

A report is distinct from a thumbs down. A thumbs down is a quiet taste preference that stays with you. A report is a flag that something is wrong with the recipe — and on a shared recipe, it can pull that meal out of circulation for everyone.

Open the recipe view (this works on current and past weeks) and tap 'Report a problem'.
Pick a reason: allergen info looks wrong, unsafe cooking instructions, steps don't make sense, offensive or inappropriate, or something else.
Add an optional detail — up to 1000 characters — then send the report. You'll get a confirmation, and you can tap 'Change' to update it later.

A safety report — wrong allergen info or unsafe instructions — withholds a shared recipe right away, but only if your household actually had that meal on a plan. Other reasons withhold a shared recipe once two different households have reported it. Withholding never deletes the meal: plans already using it keep working, and your own private meals are never withheld.