The Hearth Display Launched Its Meal Planning Feature, and I Use It Every Day Now

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The Hearth Display Launched Its Meal Planning Feature, and I Use It Every Day Now

One of Hearth Display's most requested features was recently launched: On May 14, 2025, the Hearth Display finally launched its integrated meal planning feature. I've used it for a month now, and it fits in well with the suite of features I regularly use to organize my family.

The Hearth Display is a family management tool that helps parents manage their calendars, routines, and to-do lists. It seemed only natural for the tool's services to include meal planning, but an official feature didn't exist for over a year after the product's launch. When I installed my own Hearth for the first time, I did what many other new Hearth owners did: I googled "Hearth Display meal planning" to see if I missed the feature, only to find comments and forums with other users lamenting the lack of a meal planning option, along with Reddit threads offering various clumsy workarounds. For those considering whether to buy a Hearth Display or a Skylight Calendar to manage their family, an integrated meal planner was a point in favor of Skylight.

But now, the Hearth Display has a new dedicated tab called Meals (update your app if you don't see it; your Hearth should update automatically). The Meals tab serves two obvious functions: One, you can organize your family meals for the week and plan your grocery shopping accordingly; and two, everyone can know what to expect for meals by checking the menu on their own. It's another small step for teaching independence, which is one of my favorite benefits of having a digital family planner. When anyone has a family question—"what time is practice?" or "what's for dinner?"—they're empowered to find the answer on their own.

   

                   
           

           

                           
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How my family uses the Hearth meal planning feature

The Hearth meal planning feature has categories for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, though I only use the dinner category. Logging every meal would be too tedious to be helpful, but my family is getting in the habit of brainstorming their dinner suggestions over the weekend to plan for the week ahead.

   

                   
           

           

                           
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Similar to the to-do lists and calendar events, the meal planning feature allows users to assign the task to a specific family member's profile, including labeling the meal with a specific color, if wanted. I generally assign each meal to the broader "Family" label, but I can see a future where I take more care to assign each meal to whoever is meant to cook that day. After planning dinners for the week, I go to the Grocery list and add what I need.

Other meal planning features include adding an optional recipe link and notes for each meal.

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