# Plan meals by energy, not by recipe · Forkboard

> A 15-minute Monday and a two-hour Sunday come from the same person. Forkboard lets you plan meals by energy — tag each night by effort and the week arranges itself around it.

Forkboard lets you plan meals by energy, not by recipe. Tag a fifteen-minute Monday and a two-hour Sunday, and the board fills the rest of the week to match — quick dinners on busy nights, a project where you have room to enjoy it. Because the board sees all seven days at once, a big weekend cook can spin off an easy weeknight from the leftovers, and the fast nights lean on what is already in your pantry. Over time it learns your real rhythm.

## Common questions

### Can I plan meals by how much time or energy I have?

Yes. Forkboard lets you tag each night by effort — a fifteen-minute Monday, a two-hour Sunday — and the board fills the rest of the week to match, with quick dinners on busy nights and a project where you have room to enjoy it.

### How does planning by energy actually work?

You tag a day’s energy and Forkboard plans around it: fast nights lean on what’s already in your pantry, and a big weekend cook can spin off an easy weeknight from the leftovers. Over time it learns your real rhythm from how you plan and what you rate.

See: [How it works](https://forkboard.app/how-it-works.md)

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