Yep, this method works really well in a busy schedule.
My spouse and I use iOS so we share lists that we dictate to: “add onions to the grocery list” or “add vitamin c to the pharmacy list” is pretty adhd friendly, and updated live so if one is shopping, that’s inevitably when we remember something and the other one of us can update the list without texting.
I like kitchen owl, but have to use iOS for various reasons, and it’s pretty low friction, even autoorganizing the list by section of store to make it easier when roaming the aisles.
All our recipes are in print or our heads at this point so we don’t need a list-from-recipe feature.
Hm, I feel bad enough trying to trust that apple is respecting our privacy in iCloud sync, it’s a stretch, but data processed by an aggressive retailer about my shopping, don’t think I could do it.
One thing I wish one of the grocery list apps could do was to store recipes, then you choose which recipes you want that day/week/month whenever you go shopping, it’s smart enough to know if 3 recipes need flour only put flour on once, then go through and mark ingredients you already have.
Like I can put in a recipe for penne alla vodka or fettuccine alfrado then if I select penne alla vodka it adds :
Penne pasta
Vodka sauce
Heavy cream
Mozzarella cheese
Parmesan cheese
Sausage
Etc to the list. Then I say actually I already have heavy cream and mark it as not needed.
Do you know of anything that does this? I’m kinda tempted to sketch out a plan to do it myself but I already have a totally different project I’m working on and struggling with.
I don’t know of anything like that, but it seems like parsing out multiple different formats for recipe ingredient lists would be one of the major obstacles to consistency and reliability.
I don’t know much about digital recipes, other than the crap that is various websites with their ingredient list obfuscation game.
Yeah but I’m not even asking for that. I literally want a “start recipe” button… I enter each ingredient in separate text boxes… Optional “instruction” box to paste the instructions… Later I decide “on Tuesday let’s have home made pizza, then on Wednesday we’ll do beef tips and noodles” and I click a check box or type in recipe name, system sees ingredients I previously entered for that recipe and adds it to grocery list.
No web scrapping or parsing needed. I will enter the ingredients for each recipe but I only want to enter it once
Oh yeah, I get it. On iOS I use a simple database app called Collections that I really like, I use it for mileage tracking and certain kinds of journaling or lists that need extra features like a relational key or lookups or sketch or calculation fields etc. When I can’t find an app that does what I want.
Basically a simple roll-yer-own approach. I haven’t looked into sharing the data dynamically, though. I think Collections is iOS only, probably similar apps galore on android. https://collectionsdb.com/
Yep, this method works really well in a busy schedule.
My spouse and I use iOS so we share lists that we dictate to: “add onions to the grocery list” or “add vitamin c to the pharmacy list” is pretty adhd friendly, and updated live so if one is shopping, that’s inevitably when we remember something and the other one of us can update the list without texting.
I like kitchen owl, but have to use iOS for various reasons, and it’s pretty low friction, even autoorganizing the list by section of store to make it easier when roaming the aisles.
All our recipes are in print or our heads at this point so we don’t need a list-from-recipe feature.
We do exactly the same but with Alexa
Hm, I feel bad enough trying to trust that apple is respecting our privacy in iCloud sync, it’s a stretch, but data processed by an aggressive retailer about my shopping, don’t think I could do it.
One thing I wish one of the grocery list apps could do was to store recipes, then you choose which recipes you want that day/week/month whenever you go shopping, it’s smart enough to know if 3 recipes need flour only put flour on once, then go through and mark ingredients you already have.
Like I can put in a recipe for penne alla vodka or fettuccine alfrado then if I select penne alla vodka it adds : Penne pasta Vodka sauce Heavy cream Mozzarella cheese Parmesan cheese Sausage
Etc to the list. Then I say actually I already have heavy cream and mark it as not needed.
That seems like a perfectly reasonable feature list!
Do you know of anything that does this? I’m kinda tempted to sketch out a plan to do it myself but I already have a totally different project I’m working on and struggling with.
I use Paprika on iOS, which does this.
I have a folder full of recipe files from before I got that, but haven’t really looked yet for anyway to import those
I don’t know of anything like that, but it seems like parsing out multiple different formats for recipe ingredient lists would be one of the major obstacles to consistency and reliability.
I don’t know much about digital recipes, other than the crap that is various websites with their ingredient list obfuscation game.
Yeah but I’m not even asking for that. I literally want a “start recipe” button… I enter each ingredient in separate text boxes… Optional “instruction” box to paste the instructions… Later I decide “on Tuesday let’s have home made pizza, then on Wednesday we’ll do beef tips and noodles” and I click a check box or type in recipe name, system sees ingredients I previously entered for that recipe and adds it to grocery list.
No web scrapping or parsing needed. I will enter the ingredients for each recipe but I only want to enter it once
Oh yeah, I get it. On iOS I use a simple database app called Collections that I really like, I use it for mileage tracking and certain kinds of journaling or lists that need extra features like a relational key or lookups or sketch or calculation fields etc. When I can’t find an app that does what I want.
Basically a simple roll-yer-own approach. I haven’t looked into sharing the data dynamically, though. I think Collections is iOS only, probably similar apps galore on android. https://collectionsdb.com/