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Adding your own dinner

Updated October 14, 2026

Handled. starts with about forty common family dinners to tick. Anything else is yours to add.

Add one

1. Tap Add a dinner.
2. Give it the name your family uses (“Taco night”, “Grandma’s chili”).
3. Add the ingredients one of three ways:
   • Type them. One per line.
   • Paste a recipe. Paste the text from any app or website; the ingredients get drafted for you to fix.
   • Send a screenshot. Take a photo of a recipe card or an app screen; same thing.
4. Check the draft. Delete what you don’t buy, add what the recipe forgot (the buns!).

Pick the exact products

For each ingredient, pick the product you actually buy, once:

• Paste a walmart.com product link, or
• search by name and tap the right size and brand.

That’s the whole trick. From now on “sour cream” means your sour cream.

Sides and extras

Mark an ingredient as a side option if you don’t buy it every time, and Handled. will ask which sides you want when you tick the dinner. Mark something as pick it up myself if you’d rather it stayed on your printed list than in the cart.

Didn't fix it? Email help@handleddinner.com and say "I tried that and it still doesn't work". A person reads it within one business day.