Recipe Apps for the Perfect Meal

It is a brand new year with lots to look forward to but with the current state of the economy, one of your resolutions probably is to save more money by eating more homemade meals and observing strict diets while at it. Only problem might be, you do not own a cookbook and you don’t
know where to get one. Well, no need to buy paperback; there is an app for that. There are tons of foodie apps online so you just need to find the right one.

Some apps are as basic as showing you the ingredients that you need to cook the perfect food, while others show you a step by step procedure, from picking the right pot, getting the rightly aged ingredients and garnish instructions.

One such app is the Android app ‘What’s For Dinner? Recipe’. This app takes it to another level as it builds a categorized shopping list so you can check off items as you pick them in the supermarket or grocery store. It also includes a search function that simultaneously searches all popular recipe websites like www.foodnetwork.com, www.epicurious.com (also with its own app), www.allrecipes.com, and www.myrecipes.com some of which not only give food recipes but also catalogues wines and extravagant things like the best cooking Recipe Apps for the Perfect Meal technology light. This app has a pro version that will cost you 430 KES. It allows you to access all recipe catalogues on the earlier mentioned websites. It also has the ability to read out the recipe to you if you do not want to keep touching your phone or tablet as you cook.

Another good cooking app is Big Oven, a free app available on the Google’s Play Store. This one has over 250,000 recipes all at the touch of a button. The feature that I liked best was the one that allows you to use leftovers by entering three ingredients from your fridge or pantry to get ideas on what to cook based on those ingredients. It also gives options for putting up your own recipe that can be searched and scaled from 10 people to 100 people, saving recipes to use later on, share best practice recipes with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and a shopping list for all ingredients arranged by supermarket aisle that allows you to check off items you pick. It also has a pro membership version worth 210 KES a month or 1,700 KES a year where you get access to nutritional tools to pick food based on calories, fat, and sodium content of the individual ingredients. It also lets you pick a recipe based on dietary constraints to cater to people who are vegetarian, vegan, lactose intolerant, or simple want to admit gluten, red meat or shellfish.

By George Murage