I'll second this recommendation. I started using Anylist last year and it's incredible. My weekly grocery flow goes like this now:
- Skim a few recipe sites for anything new I want to try
- 1-click import them to Anylist (using the browser extension)
- Add recipes to the weekly meal plan in Anylist
- Click "Add all ingredients" for each recipe, which automatically puts all ingredients for the recipe into my shopping list.
One of my favorite things is that it automatically categorizes the list items by store section, making the shopping much easier.
It doesn't work with every recipe site, though (traeger.com for example), but it works with most.
There are two features I wish it had that would make it nearly perfect:
1. Ability to create my own categorization rules. For example, "whole peeled tomatoes with their juices" gets categorized as beverage, and I can manually recategorize that specific item, but it would be nice to create a rule for wholepeeledtomato* that puts it in the "Canned Goods" category
2. The ability to exclude ingredients from being added to the list. I always have salt, pepper, and olive oil on hand, but I end up having to manually cross a dozen of those off my shopping list when I add ingredients for the week when nearly every recipe inevitably includes them.
- Skim a few recipe sites for anything new I want to try
- 1-click import them to Anylist (using the browser extension)
- Add recipes to the weekly meal plan in Anylist
- Click "Add all ingredients" for each recipe, which automatically puts all ingredients for the recipe into my shopping list.
One of my favorite things is that it automatically categorizes the list items by store section, making the shopping much easier.
It doesn't work with every recipe site, though (traeger.com for example), but it works with most.
There are two features I wish it had that would make it nearly perfect:
1. Ability to create my own categorization rules. For example, "whole peeled tomatoes with their juices" gets categorized as beverage, and I can manually recategorize that specific item, but it would be nice to create a rule for wholepeeledtomato* that puts it in the "Canned Goods" category
2. The ability to exclude ingredients from being added to the list. I always have salt, pepper, and olive oil on hand, but I end up having to manually cross a dozen of those off my shopping list when I add ingredients for the week when nearly every recipe inevitably includes them.