Notion Recipe Template

Q: Can I change how many people a recipe feeds?

Yes. Type a number in Cook for and every amount under You need changes, on the recipe and on the grocery list. Set Serves first so it knows what the recipe makes.

Keep every recipe in one photo book, plan the week, and shop from a list that fills itself in.

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The main page of the Notion recipe template: a food photo cover and recipe cards with real photos

Lemon Garlic Spaghetti

This week

Mon

Total

25 min

Serves

Cook for

Ingredients

Ingredient	Qty	Unit	You need
spaghetti	400	g	200 g
olive oil	3	tbsp	1 ½ tbsp
garlic, thinly sliced	4	clove	2 cloves
lemon, zest and juice	1	piece	½
parmesan, grated	0.5	cup	¼ cup
fresh parsley	1	handful	½ handful

Type how many you’re cooking for. You need changes to match.

Works on the free Notion plan
Your grocery list fills in from the menu
Amounts change with how many you cook for

At a glance

What it is: A recipe book in Notion with photo cards, a weekly menu and a grocery list that fills in from the recipes you plan.
Who it’s for: Home cooks with recipes spread across browser tabs, screenshots and old notebooks. No Notion experience needed.
Price: $5, one payment. It’s yours to keep.
Free Notion plan: Yes. Databases, formulas and buttons, nothing more.
Time: About five minutes to set up, then a few minutes to plan each week.

Watch the 47-second tour

Your recipe book, a recipe page, the week’s menu and the grocery list, filmed in the real template.

Cover of the 47 second video tour of the Recipe Book for Notion

What it does that most recipe templates don’t

Before building it, we read the reviews of the most used recipe templates for Notion. What people loved most was a grocery list tied to their recipes, yet most templates either leave it out or make you link every ingredient by hand. These are the parts we changed.

Ingredients link themselves

Type an ingredient into a recipe’s table and it belongs to that recipe. There are no relations to set up.
Cook for any number

Type how many you’re cooking for and every amount changes, in kitchen fractions like 1 ½ tbsp.
A grocery list that fills itself in

Pick days for a few recipes and their ingredients land on the list by aisle. Cook a recipe twice and it buys for both.
Planning never deletes a recipe

Take a recipe off the menu and it stays in your book. New week empties the menu and the list, nothing else.

We set it up from a fresh copy, the way you’ll get it: cleared the samples, added a recipe with its ingredients, planned a week, shopped from the list and pressed New week. We checked the amounts at different Cook for numbers too.

What’s inside

The main page holds your recipes, this week’s menu and a link to the grocery list. Every recipe opens to its own page with ingredients, steps and notes.

Your recipes as a photo book

Each recipe is a card with its photo, time, servings, course and stars. Tabs gather Favorites, recipes you Want to try and Quick ones that take half an hour or less, along with Breakfast, Mains, and Baking and desserts.

Twelve recipe cards with food photos, cooking times, servings, courses and stars, under tabs like Favorites and Quick

Every recipe on its own page

Ingredients sit in a table with their Qty, Unit and aisle, then come the steps and your notes. Add to grocery list puts one recipe on the list, and I made this counts how often you cook it.

Lemon Garlic Spaghetti page: Serves 4, Cook for 2, and an ingredients table where 400 g of spaghetti becomes 200 g

This week’s menu

Pick a day next to a recipe in the Plan tab and it shows up under that day, photo and all. Having oats three mornings? Pick all three days.

A grocery list by aisle

Everything the week’s menu needs, grouped into Produce, Dairy and eggs, Pantry and the rest, with how much to buy. Tick Got it in the store and the item drops off.

Grocery list under Produce with amounts to buy, like 2 handfuls of baby spinach, and the recipe each one is for

Family recipes and their story

Write who a recipe came from in From, and tell its story at the bottom of the page, like Grandma Rose’s Banana Bread.

The steps, notes and family story on the Grandma Rose’s Banana Bread page

Also in the template

Nine aisles

Rename them or add your own to match the store you shop at.
- Produce
- Meat and fish
- Dairy and eggs
- Bakery
- Pantry
- Spices
- Frozen
- Drinks
- Other
Kitchen conversions

Cups to grams, oven temperatures, pan sizes and quick swaps on one page.
Save from the web

Keep a link as a Saved from the web recipe, or send pages in with the Notion Web Clipper or your phone’s Share menu.
Sample recipes

Twelve recipes with real food photos show how it works. One button hides them all.
A Start here page

Five short steps inside your copy, with pictures of where to click.

How to use it each week

Open the Plan tab and pick days for the recipes you want to cook.
Open Grocery list and tick Got it as you shop.
Cook from the recipe page, then click I made this.
When the week is over, click New week to start fresh.

Set it up in about five minutes

Do this once. It’s easiest on a computer.

Buy it on the Notion Marketplace and add it to your workspace when Notion asks. A free Notion account is enough.
Open Start here and click the button in step 1 to hide the 12 sample recipes. They leave the menu and the grocery list too.
Under My recipes, click New. Name the recipe and set Serves, then add each ingredient to the table with its Qty, Unit and Aisle.
Found a recipe online? Click the arrow next to New, pick Saved from the web and paste the link.
Under This week’s menu, open Plan and pick a day next to each recipe you want to cook.
Open Grocery list. The week’s ingredients are there by aisle. Tick Got it as you shop.

Type fractions as decimals, like 0.5 or 1.5. You need shows them as ½ and 1 ½.

Is it right for you?

A good fit if

Your recipes live in browser tabs, screenshots and a notebook.
You plan dinners for the week and shop once.
You often cook for more or fewer people than a recipe says.
You want to keep family recipes along with their story.

Look elsewhere if

You want calories and macros. Weekly Meal Planner tracks those.
You want ingredients read from a website for you. You type them into the table.
You want to track what’s in your pantry. This one covers recipes and shopping.
You want a printed cookbook. This one lives in Notion.

Questions

Does it work on the free Notion plan?

Yes. It runs on databases, formulas and buttons, and the free plan has all three.

Can I change how many people a recipe feeds?

Yes. Type a number in Cook for and every amount under You need changes, on the recipe and on the grocery list. Set Serves first so it knows what the recipe makes.

Can I save recipes from websites?

Yes. Pick Saved from the web and paste the link, or use the Notion Web Clipper on a computer and the Share menu on your phone. Add the ingredients you want on your list to its table.

What happens when I take a recipe off the menu?

Nothing is deleted. The recipe stays in your book and its ingredients leave the grocery list.

Can I add things that aren’t in a recipe?

Yes. Click New page under an aisle on the grocery list and type it in, like paper towels.

Does it count calories or macros?

No. Our Weekly Meal Planner does, if you want that too.

Can I use it on my phone?

Yes. Setup is easiest on a computer. After that, the Notion app works well for cooking and shopping.

Where does the template go after I pay?

From the Notion Marketplace, Notion adds it to your workspace right away. From Etsy, you download a PDF with the template link, open it and click Duplicate.

What if I get stuck?

Email us at hello@magnetcreativestudio.com with the template name and what you see, and we’ll help you get it working.

For power users

How it’s built, if you like to change things.

The databases

Database	What it holds
Recipes	One page per recipe with photo, times, Serves, Cook for, course, diet, cuisine, stars, status, source and who it came from.
Ingredients	One row per ingredient with Qty, Unit, Aisle and Got it. Rows typed on a recipe page link to that recipe.

How it works inside

You need: Qty times Cook for, divided by Serves. Grams are rounded, the rest show as kitchen fractions.
To buy: You need times the number of days the recipe is on the menu.
Quick: Marks recipes that take 30 minutes or less, for the Quick tab.
I made this: Adds one to Times made and sets Last made to today.
Add to grocery list: Shops for a single recipe that isn’t planned for any day this week.
New week: Empties the menu and the grocery list. Every recipe stays.

Start your recipe book

Pay once, clear the samples and add the recipe you make most.