Negatives: Again, it’s a comprehensive app that takes a bit of getting used to and is not that intuitive. The shopping list on this one can be printed, or you can use your phone in the store to tick off things as you go around. You can create plans, or use ready made ones for speed. It also has a calorie counter and a cost indication (although this is in $). There are hundreds of recipes to choose from. The recipes it has are searchable in great details, including cooking times from 15 mins up, ingredients you like and don’t like. This one comes with a bank of recipes, but also allows you to add your own manually, and with URLs. Say Mmm (Evernote) – Another fairly complex meal planner with a lot of great features. If you don’t necessarily want to do home cooking every day, and if you have your own recipes. Good if you want: comprehensive, flexible and tailored to your own preferences. Also, it doesn’t seem to offer a printout of the plan itself, although I haven’t had enough time on it to fully explore. The recipes that it supports are mostly American, so weights of items are in cups, pounds and ounces, not grammes as we use in the UK. Negatives: Because it is so comprehensive, it takes a bit of getting used to and can be quite complicated until you get to know it. pork chops, vegetables and rice) you can add it as a meal, input the ingredients you will need, and save it as a meal or recipe. If you don’t want to cook a recipe every day and want something simple (e.g. The list also collates multiple ingredients so that, for example, if 3 recipes require carrots, it totals them. It allows you to simply scale recipes up or down for more or less people, and it neatly categorises your shopping list into sections to make shopping easier. It allows you to choose recipes from a list (that you make) by either using URL links (from certain sites) or manually putting in recipes of your own. Pepperplate – The pepperplate meal planner is a very comprehensive app that has a lot of useful features. Good if you want: simple, flexible, tailor-made and delivered by Tesco. Recipes are based on 4 people and can’t be amended for more or less people. One of the biggest drawbacks is that you can’t print the shopping list – it puts it into the Tesco shopping basket, so you have to have a Tesco delivery to use this one. Negatives: It can be a bit slow, and you can’t add your own recipes. It puts your ingredients into your Tesco shopping basket with the click of a button. vegetarian, low fat, gluten free, budget, etc.) It has a ‘surprise me’ plan if you want to produce a plan really quickly. You can pick your start day, meals, length of cooking time for recipes, and specific diets (e.g. It’s a UK app, so is all in British weights. It has a huge library of recipes, all of which have been reviewed and rated. You can use a ready made meal plan, customize one, or start from scratch. The Tesco meal planner is quick and easy to use. Good if you want: simple, healthy and very quick Also, it doesn’t seem to save plans, so once you print it and leave it, there’s no revisiting a plan. You can’t import recipes and the bank of recipes it has is pretty small (I counted 40 main meals and 17 lunches). Negatives: Because it’s so simple, it is very limited. It’s very easy to use (drag & drop) and lists ingredient quantities in British measurements (grammes rather than ounces, etc.) It also has meals in categories such as light meals, packed lunches, main meals and value meals, and has a counter to show how each day fares for your ‘5-a-day’. You can personalise the number of adults and children you are feeding, which none of the others appear to do. It is made by the NHS and based on healthy eating, and getting your 5-a-day fruit and vegetables. Some of the features:ĥ A DAY – This one is by far the simplest and quickest. I have picked a few of the best free ones to review, all of which have different advantages, so there should be one to suit you here.Īll four of these have a meal planner, printable recipes, and make your shopping list for you with a click or two. Some you have to pay for and others are free. There are a lot of different meal planning apps available to help make meal planning easier, quicker and cheaper. It also means you can have healthier meals and try new recipes, as well as not having to figure out every day what you can cook without having to go to the shops for anything. The benefits of meal planning are huge – although it can seem time consuming at first, it can save you a lot of time and money because there are less trips to the shops and less wasted food. I’ve written about meal planning in a previous Time Fairy blog post.
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