Online Meal Planner

Ekim · 20 Sep 2007 at 11:17

Does anyone know of any good online meal planners?

I need to start getting myself in the habit of doing proper weekly shops and cooking for my self most nights but every time I go to the supermarket I'm a bit stumped as to what to buy.

I'm looking for a meal planner which can organise a shopping list week by week and give me meal ideas etc.

Any one use anything good out there?

basmic · 20 Sep 2007 at 11:28

Col_M · 20 Sep 2007 at 11:34

http://www.arcasoft.com/en/description/arcacook/frame.htm
http://www.absoluteshareware.com/shareware/easy-recipe-deluxe-5221.htm

There are a couple programs i found on google. I don't think they have meal ideas on there though, you have to input your own recipes and ingredients.

Moredhel · 20 Sep 2007 at 11:35

I'm just in the process of writing something like that for my mum. She's buying to a budget and wants a meal planner. But yes, she'll have to enter her own meals and ingredients.

bandit · 20 Sep 2007 at 11:45

i found a pen an paper works, but off course its not online.
generally you can list the days of the week and what your eating, then break them down into what you need to buy and what you dont.
remember not ebverything is eaton everyweek, so you will have some butter left over, and maybe a banana.

good luck

MookJong · 20 Sep 2007 at 11:53

I have a little magnetic whiteboard on my fridge, it's the key to my success.

I'm terrible for forgetting what I need to get once I actually get to the shops so all week I'll be writing things on the whiteboard as I think of them / run out. Then before I go to do my weekly shop I read the list or take a picture of it with my phone!

Routine and practice is the key though, once you get it right for a couple of weeks you kind of end up buying the same things over and over.