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March 16, 2009

Wanted: cookbook app

My needs are simple.  I want something to store recipes, plan meals, and generate grocery lists.  It should be easy to share everything with someone else, and share particular recipes with the world in general (or even just via email would be nice.)

It should NOT require many, many fields to function.  For lots of things, I’d just like to put a name in, to jog my memory that I know how to cook it and I like to eat it.  It should be easy to paste things into it from the web.  It could BE on the web; that would be fine by me.

A nice feature would be a pantry of what I alreay own.

So far, the best fit has been YummySoup.  Which is to say, the recipe adder (both keying and pasting) didn’t suck, and it has a grocery list feature.  No meal planner.  No easy way to sync to an iphone.

I also looked at MacGourmet (a pain to add new recipes) and Sous Chef (got naughty when I tried to paste in a recipe without full info.)  All the sites out there are basically about pushing their own recipes.  I don’t want to be all cluttered up with their recipes; I want my own!

Help me, O Readers.  You’re my only hope!

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