How your shopping list works

Every week comes with its own shopping list, built from the meals in your plan. You will find it in the Food tab, under Shopping list.

One list per week

The list covers your week and only your week. This week comes first, with next week’s list underneath once you have created that plan, so you are never juggling several.

The segment label carries a count of what is still to buy, for example Shopping list 20.

What a row tells you

Each item is a card showing:

• The ingredient, and whether you need it today or tomorrow.
• How much to get, as a pack size, for example “Get 400g tin”.
• What it covers, for example “covers 400g this week”.
• A pack picker and a quantity stepper, if the suggested pack is not what is on the shelf. See change pack sizes and quantities.
• Mark bought, to tick it off.

Some rows are a “check you have” rather than something to buy: store cupboard basics like oil and salt.

The counter at the top

The filter chips count what you have ticked off, for example All 30/50, then a chip per aisle with its own count. See shopping by aisle.

It keeps itself up to date

You do not have to rebuild the list when your plans change. Bolus updates it whenever you swap a meal, skip one, or change your portion or household size. Anything you have already marked as bought stays marked.

If you skip a meal you had already shopped for, those ingredients move to Surplus rather than vanishing. See the surplus section.

It does not tie you to a shop

The list is not a basket at a particular supermarket, and it does not link out to products to buy. It is a list you can take round any shop or type into any online order. Water is never on it.