Swapping a single meal

Most weeks land close. When a single night is off — wrong mood, wrong ingredient, just not tonight — you don't have to re-roll the whole board to fix it. Swap that one dinner and leave the other six standing.

Swap one night

Swaps work on the current week only — past weeks are read-only. Forkboard reaches for a meal you haven't had this week before inventing a fresh one, so the wait is short, and it sizes the new dinner to your household and leans on what's in your pantry.

1. Open the board for the current week.
2. On the dinner you don't want, choose Swap — on the web that's the Swap button on the day card's rating bar or inside the meal detail, and on the iPhone app it's 'Swap this meal' in the meal detail screen.
3. Wait a moment while one replacement dinner is composed; the button reads 'Swapping…'.
4. The night updates in place with the new meal. The week drops back to Draft, so publish again if you want the share link to reflect it.

Swapping a pinned night

A pinned night doesn't change on its own — not even when you regenerate the whole week. To replace one, a swap asks you to confirm first. The pin survives the swap, and the new dinner matches the effort and cuisine you locked in.

What a swap costs

• A swap counts the same as regenerating the whole week — one model call, one credit, drawn from the same monthly counter (Free 4, Solo 30, Family 60, trial 15 per month).
• If a swap fails, it's refunded, so it never costs you a credit.
• There's also a daily ceiling of 50 AI requests per person; hit it and you'll be asked to try again tomorrow.

Two quiet side effects

Swapping a dinner records a soft thumbs-down on the meal you replaced. It shapes future plans but never appears in the rating UI, and it doesn't override a thumbs-up you'd already given. A swap also clears any leftover links touching that day — both the day's own leftover note and any later night that pointed back at it.

There's no ingredient-level swap and no undo. A swap replaces the whole dinner for one night; to change your mind, swap or regenerate again.

Related: Planning your week · Rating & reporting meals