Recipe & shopping list app for Android
March 6, 2013 7:53 PM   Subscribe

I'm looking for a convenient app for Android that will build a shopping list from a list of ingredients.

I love the allrecipes.com app where you can add an entire recipe to a shopping list and it will automatically do the conversions into buyable quantities. For example, if the recipe calls for 1 cup of frozen peas, it will put "1 (10 ounce) package frozen green peas" in the shopping list. Or if the recipe uses "3/4 cup diced onion" it will be converted to "2 onions".

The only problem is you're limited to the sometimes low quality recipes on allrecipes.com. I'm moving to a more restrictive diet, so is there any app that does sort of the same thing but allows me to enter my own recipes?
posted by zixyer to Food & Drink (6 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: The one most of the people on the Home Cooking forum at Chowhound like these days is called Pepperplate.

This isn't a personal recommendation as I haven't tried it, but I gather you can use a bookmarklet to bring in any recipe from anywhere to use for meal and shopping planning. I don't know if it does the conversion you're looking for, though.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:00 PM on March 6, 2013 [1 favorite]


The problem with that is that there isn't a magical number of onions that will equal 3/4 cup. If Bi-Lo magically gets smaller onions I need to buy more.

It would be better to just learn how much a cup is and buy according to that. Worst case, you have some extra onion to throw in another dish.
posted by theichibun at 8:33 PM on March 6, 2013


I'm in love with Paprika. I use it on a Mac/iPhone, but I can't imagine the andriod version would be much different.
posted by spinturtle at 8:42 PM on March 6, 2013 [1 favorite]


Paprika is lifechanging. My husband uses the same account on his android and his ipad.
posted by freshwater at 9:03 PM on March 6, 2013 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Thanks jacquillyne. Pepperplate doesn't do the conversions, but it has everything else I'm looking for and it works great.

Paprika looks good too, but my Mac isn't working anymore so I can't really use it to enter recipes, which is something I'd probably want to do on a desktop and not on my phone.
posted by zixyer at 9:38 AM on March 7, 2013


Paprika looks good too, but my Mac isn't working anymore so I can't really use it to enter recipes, which is something I'd probably want to do on a desktop and not on my phone.

Not to mention, Paprika wants an absurd $20 for the Mac app and the mobile apps are extra on top of that.

I love Pepperplate. It's flaws are that the photos don't show up on the Android app and you can't click a keyword and see all recipes that have that keyword. One would assume both of these will be in an update.
posted by dobbs at 9:11 AM on March 10, 2013


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