RepimameUpdated 23 September 2026
How to plan a week of dinners from recipes you saved on TikTok
Your TikTok Favorites are full of dinners you meant to make. They stay there because a saved video is not a plan: you cannot see the amounts, you cannot shop from it, and on Tuesday at six you cannot find it. This takes about twenty minutes on a Sunday and turns those saves into a week you will actually cook.
We make a recipe app, and mention it at the end. Everything before that works with TikTok, your notes app and a pen.
From saved videos to a week of dinners
1. Shortlist eight
Open Favorites and pick eight you would genuinely cook this week, not the ones you admire. Eight gives you room to drop a few in the next step. If you save a lot, a Favorites collection called "This week" keeps the shortlist in one place.
2. Write each one down, and drop the vague ones
Tap "more" under the video. If the caption lists ingredients with amounts, copy it into a note with the link. If it says "recipe in comments" or "link in bio", go there. If the amounts are only in the video, or nowhere at all, that recipe is not for this week: you will be guessing at the stove. Keep it for a weekend.
Our guide to saving a recipe from a TikTok video has the places a recipe hides, and what to do when it is not written down.
3. Place five dinners, not seven
Plans fail on the night something comes up. Five cooked dinners and two open nights (leftovers, eating out, cereal) survives a normal week. Then balance the effort:
A week that survives real life
Share an ingredient. If Monday uses half a bunch of coriander, put another coriander recipe on Wednesday. The same goes for the half pot of cream or the jar of one special sauce: pairing recipes is how you stop throwing away half of what you buy.
4. Shop once
Put every ingredient from the five dinners on one list. Before you go, cross off what is already in the cupboard, then group the rest by where it is in your shop (produce, meat, dairy, dry goods) so you walk the aisles once. If two recipes use the same thing, add the amounts yourself; a video caption will not tell you that you need three onions in total.
Doing it in an app
Any recipe app with a meal planner shortens steps 2 to 4. In Repimame (ours), you share the TikTok link to the app and the caption becomes ingredients and steps, with a still from the video beside each step. You drop recipes onto days, by breakfast, lunch and dinner, and send each recipe's ingredients to the shopping list with one tap. The list keeps each recipe's ingredients together; it does not add the same ingredient up across recipes, so step 4's "add the amounts yourself" still applies.
Once you have ten saved recipes, auto-fill can fill empty meals for you, one meal or the whole week at once. It only ever picks from recipes you saved yourself, never recipes from elsewhere.
Try Repimame
Completely free. iPhone and iPad.