Household Members

A household member is a person you cook for in your kitchen. Setting them up lets RecipesByScott tailor suggestions and track nutrition per person.

Two kinds of members

• Linked to an account — a member who is also a signed-in user of the kitchen.
• Name only — someone you cook for who doesn't log in (a child, a guest, a family member). You just track them by name.

What you can record

• A dietary protocol that applies to them (see Dietary protocols).
• Hard avoids — ingredients to strictly exclude (allergies, intolerances). Recipes containing these are filtered out.
• Soft avoids — ingredients to prefer to skip when possible.
• Preferred cuisines and preferred textures — to bias suggestions toward what they enjoy.

Why it matters

Two things use this information:

• Recipe suggestions respect each member's hard avoids and protocol, so what's recommended is actually safe and appropriate to cook.
• Nutrition tracking — when you record meal servings, RecipesByScott can total nutrition per member over a date range.

Hard avoids are enforced everywhere recipes are suggested — both in the app and through the AI assistant — so an allergy set here is respected consistently.