Looking for meal-planning / grocery list software

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I'm looking for software (either PC-based, or web-based) that can be used for meal planning and generating shopping lists. What I'd like is for it to store recipes that I have, including their ingredients. At the beginning of the week, I would like to select recipes and side dishes for dinners and have it generate a shopping list of things necessary for those recipes. A nice feature would be for it to calculate calories, fat content, etc., for the week.

Is there such a thing out there?

Thanks.



Best Answer

Disclaimer: I am the owner of the company behind this service as well as the programmer of it.

Except for calculating nutritional data, http://bechamel.net does exactly this, if you are a registered user (which is free). Please note that there's not a whole lot of activity on the rest of the site though, and because of that, there's not a lot of development going on (that doesn't mean there are any plans to shut it down, there's not).

To use Béchamel for this, go to a recipe, click "I want to eat this soon", drag the recipe to the applicable day, go to the shopping list, and add the recipe. You can adjust servings either per recipe in the list, or globally in your profile. It will even coalesce equivalent ingredients in the shopping list (2 eggs in one recipe and 3 eggs in another will become 5 eggs in the shopping list).

Feel free to use it if it fits your needs.




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Does Google have a meal planning app?

It's free. Yay! It's available on all of your devices, so wherever you are, whatever device you have with you, you have access to your meal plan. You can drag and drop meals around your calendar, which makes planning extra easy.

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  • Is there an app to put recipes into a grocery list?

    An updated app from smart food platform Whisk wants to cut down on the hassle by turning your saved recipes into shopping lists for you. You can share those lists across devices, or use them to order groceries online.

    Is Paprika app free?

    Paprika is available on the Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows platforms as a free app, but you can purchase it for $4.99 to unlock Paprika Cloud Sync (to carry recipes and lists across devices) and the ability to save unlimited recipes (otherwise you're limited to just 50).



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    More answers regarding looking for meal-planning / grocery list software

    Answer 2

    Pepperplate http://pepperplate.com has a web site, which is great for collecting recipes and they also have both iPhone and iPad apps. iPhone app is convenient when shopping, iPad app when actually cooking.

    I was about to implement something like Pepperplate myself, but then found them and been happy so far. There is some annoying bugs in apps, but I hope they get them sorted out.

    Answer 3

    There is an iPhone app in Australia that may be as close as you want.

    http://www.coles.com.au/Stores-Services/Coles-shopmate.aspx

    It's not 100% what you are after, but have a look at it as reference.

    Answer 4

    I recommend Paprikia: http://www.paprikaapp.com/

    Answer 5

    I'm in the process of developing a new web app that'll do just this. I'd love to talk to you about features you'd like. If you're still looking for something feel free to contact me at @adammckerlie on twitter.

    Answer 6

    I built a site that does exactly what you're asking for:

    http://mealfire.com

    There's no nutritional data, but everything else you've mentioned is there. Actually, you're paragraph is a pretty good description of the core features of the site!

    Answer 7

    I like http://shopglider.com/

    It is web-based, pretty simple: you keep shopping lists and recipes there, can share account between multiple people. Then you decide what to buy next time and plan trip to shops.

    They also have Windows Phone app that synchronizes with the web site - so one account user can add more stuff while another it shopping :), but no iPhone or Android app (at least yet).

    Answer 8

    By chance I had the same question today and installed Gourmet Recipe Manager. Available for Windows and Linux.

    "Gourmet Recipe Manager is an application to store, organize and search recipes. Gourmet also makes it easy to create shopping lists from recipes. Gourmet imports recipes from a number of sources, including MealMaster and MasterCook archives and several popular websites. Gourmet can export recipes as text, MealMaster files, HTML web pages, and a custom XML format for exchange with other Gourmet users. Gourmet supports linking images with recipes. Gourmet can also calculate nutritional information for recipes based on the ingredients."

    http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net

    Answer 9

    Maybe CookDiary is to your taste. ;) It does everything you want with the exception of calories calculation (at the moment).

    The program is written by me so ask away if you have any problems.

    Answer 10

    Give a try to HipRecipes.com:

    • It is a web app, completely free
    • You can search for recipes and add them to your basket
    • And the app assemble a grocery list for you, organised by categories!

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