Frequently asked questions

NoshUp is a Canadian meal planning app for families who want a simpler way to plan weekly meals, build a grocery list, find local flyer deals, and track grocery spending in CAD. Create your free NoshUp account.

Tell NoshUp about your household, dietary needs, favourite cuisines, and Canadian grocery stores. It creates a weekly meal plan, combines the ingredients into one smart grocery list, and helps you shop around current deals. See how the meal planning features work.

Yes. The free plan includes seven-day meal plans, a basic grocery list, one household, limited receipt scanning, and weekly flyer deals matched across nearby stores. Prices for paid plans are always shown in CAD. Compare the Free and Pro plans.

NoshUp is the foodpilot for households: it maps the week's meals, deals, and budget - the cooking stays deliciously yours. It's an AI-first workflow that brings meal planning, grocery lists, Canadian flyer deals, and budget tracking into a compatible assistant instead of making you juggle separate tools. It works with ChatGPT and Gemini. See the AI-first workflow.

Yes. NoshUp can adapt meal suggestions for vegetarian, vegan, halal, and other dietary preferences. Add each person’s needs to your household so the weekly meal planner can account for them. Set up your household preferences.

Yes. NoshUp is a multicultural meal planner built for the variety found in Canadian kitchens, including Indian, Mediterranean, Mexican, East Asian, Italian, and mixed-cuisine weeks. Discover multicultural meal planning.

Switching your household's cultural module (for example, from Italian to Indian) is a Pro feature, available from Settings. The new cuisine takes effect the next time a weekly meal plan is generated, and any pinned meals you've saved are always kept. Want it right away? Regenerate the current week's plan after changing the cultural module to get suggestions from the new cuisine immediately. Upgrade to Pro to change cuisines.

The AI meal planner uses your household size, cuisine choices, dietary preferences, schedule, and meal history to suggest a practical week of breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. You can manually repeat a dish across meals to plan for leftovers yourself. Generate your first weekly plan.

Yes. An AI meal plan is a starting point, not a fixed menu. You can adjust meals to fit changing schedules, preferences, and what your family already has at home. Start a customizable meal plan.

Yes, and we encourage it - type any dish name into a meal slot to swap in whatever your family is actually eating. If that dish isn’t one of NoshUp’s own recipes, add its ingredients yourself and they’ll flow into your grocery list along with everything else. Add your own meals to a plan.

Yes. Open any meal and choose Cook double to mark it as a bigger batch, then use Leftovers from… on a later meal to link it back instead of cooking something new - no need to retype the same dish. A dedicated weekend meal-prep mode isn't shipped yet. See the weekly planning workflow.

NoshUp is designed around grocery shopping in Canada and supports deal discovery from major and regional stores, including FreshCo, Costco, Walmart, and more as coverage expands. Learn about grocery deal matching.

NoshUp compares items on your grocery list with available Canadian flyer offers, then highlights relevant savings before you shop. This keeps the list connected to the meals you actually plan to cook. Build a grocery list with deal matching.

Yes. NoshUp can surface deals from Canadian retailers such as FreshCo, Costco, and Walmart, subject to flyer availability in your area. Store coverage may vary by postal code and week. Find deals for your household.

Yes. NoshUp helps you monitor grocery spending in CAD so you can compare your plan with what you actually spent and make more informed choices for future weeks. Explore grocery budget tracking.

Take a clear photo of your grocery receipt and NoshUp reads the purchased items and prices. You can review and correct the results before they contribute to your household’s spending history. Try receipt scanning with a free account.

Yes. With Receipt Vault on Pro, NoshUp keeps the scanned receipt image for 90 days. Open any scanned receipt - or a single line item - to view the original receipt image, zoom in, and confirm what the store actually charged before the image is automatically deleted. See Receipt Vault on Pro.

NoshUp organizes meal plans, grocery lists, and preferences around a household. Pro supports up to five household profiles so a Canadian family can plan together in one place. Compare household options.

Yes. Weekly plans can include lunches that fit your family’s routine, including portable school lunch ideas alongside breakfast and dinner planning. Plan your family’s week.

Yes. Household profiles can capture different dietary preferences, helping the family meal planner suggest meals that work for more people at the table. See plans with household profiles.

You can manage or cancel a paid subscription from your NoshUp billing settings. If you need help with your account, the NoshUp team can assist. Contact NoshUp support.

Free includes core weekly meal planning, a basic grocery list, one household, five receipt scans per month, and limited flyer deals. Pro adds unlimited plans and receipt scanning, Receipt Vault so you can view original receipt images for 90 days, full deal matching, savings history, the ability to switch your household's cultural cuisine, and up to five household profiles. View current Canadian pricing.

Start in ChatGPT's connector settings and add https://api.noshup.ca/mcp as the server URL. ChatGPT will redirect you to NoshUp to sign in and approve access through OAuth 2.1; you do not need to generate or paste an API key. After connecting, you can search recipes, view recipe details, and find Canadian flyer deals on the free plan. Meal plan, grocery list, and budget tools are available when your NoshUp plan includes them; otherwise the tool returns an upgrade-required message. View full setup instructions.

Any signed-in NoshUp user, including a free-plan user, can connect ChatGPT through OAuth 2.1 without generating an API key. Recipe search, recipe details, and Canadian flyer deals remain available without upgrading. Meal plan, grocery list, and budget tools check your household's plan when used and return an upgrade-required message if the feature is not included. Generating a manual connector key for Cursor, scripts, automations, or another MCP client requires Pro. Compare plans.

Yes. ChatGPT uses OAuth 2.1: you sign in on NoshUp and approve access, and ChatGPT never receives your NoshUp password. No manual key is needed for ChatGPT. Manual connector keys are an advanced Pro option for Cursor and other MCP clients; treat a key like a password because it authorizes access to your household through NoshUp's MCP endpoint. You can revoke it at any time from Settings > MCP Connectors, and it stops working immediately. Manage advanced connector keys.