I use Mealime. It had recipes and options to put in dietary restrictions.

no app recommendations but i created a subreddit for 10 minute healthy food. that helps? https://www.reddit.com/r/10minutefood/

Are you me ? (Minus the family) Hope you find answers that would suit your needs here :) (and if I can at the same time, yes please aha)

It sounds like you are looking for a computer program to make decisions for you. The best app is the one between your ears.

Your choices need to account for preferences and skills. Only you can do that.

Budget is important. Costs vary with store and region and season. Coupons. Sales.

Paper and pen. Spreadsheet.

Not exactly it, but Mealboard comes closest for me. You DO have to import recipes (your own or automatically from dozens of websites) but it’s pretty easy and then they’re there forever. You can sort them by meal, cuisine, rating, etc. and can include costs with the ingredients. It’s also shareable with the family—which means I can assign family members to come up with meal plans on different days for example. Maybe that might work for you.

I use Fina Money for my budget and it helps me keep track of everything in one place. For meal planning try Mealime or Yummly.

They both let you plan meals and create shopping lists easily on mobile. Mealime is especially quick and simple to use for weekly planning.

I’ve been in that same boat with Notion! It’s great in theory, but the mobile experience just feels too clunky for something as hands-on as grocery and meal planning. I ended up switching to simpler apps for meal prep, like Paprika or Mealime, which are more straightforward and designed for that specific purpose. They make it easier to save recipes and generate shopping lists automatically, which is a lifesaver.

For the budgeting side of things, I use Habit Money to track my grocery spending each week. It’s not a meal planning app, but I like how it gives me a clear view of how much I’m spending across categories, including groceries. The weekly spending breakdowns really help me figure out where I might be overdoing it, like when I impulse-buy extra snacks that aren’t in the plan. It also sends reminders to check my spending, which keeps me in line with my grocery budget without too much effort. Between using Habit Money and a dedicated meal prep app, I feel way more organized and less stressed about food expenses.

I like Mealime. I pay $3/month but there is a free version. It probably saves me around $500/month if not more.

I use Supercook (I'm on Android).

Put in what stock you have, what you'd like to use as a main ingredient etc and it will give you a selection of recipes. It will also prompt you to consider other ingredients you might have, to broaden your options.

Will then send you to a Web page for the recipe itself.

Completely free and I use it from time to time to see what else I could make.

Not sure about the financial aspect but I really like Copy Me That for meal planning, and it lets you easily save recipes and create a grocery list

Check out Deglaze: Cooking, Simplified (free). You create a household and link your 4 family members. Everyone in the household will share a recipe library and a master grocery list. Anyone can add recipes, create/complete grocery list items, and more. No subscription / purchase - 100% free. Hope this helps!

Hi! I'm the creator of Cooky. A meal-planning app designed to keep home cooks organized, inspired, and stress-free in the kitchen. Feel free to download at: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6739983673 and give it a try! DM me for support if you need any help!

The dinners app is super fun. It doesn’t do the grocery shopping part but it allows everyone to download the app and vote on recipes. Then it shows you what recipes you matched to. Kind of like dating apps haha.

You can use Flavorish to save recipes from anywhere!

• From social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. It gives you the full recipe, not just a link to it.
• From an image of a recipe card, handwritten note, cookbook recipe, etc
• From virtually any recipe website online

You can make as many shopping lists as you'd like too and sort them by aisle, recipe or custom order. Also you can add ingredients to any list directly from a recipe.

It’s quick and easy to organize everything in one place. You'll find the free tier is more generous than others, there's no limit on how many recipes you can save, everything is synced to all your devices (iOS, Android and web) and most features are free. There's also no ads and your data isn't sold - it's purely supported by users.

Disclaimer: I'm the developer of Flavorish.

You can try My Recipe Pad. It has a meal planner that supports live collaboration. Does not have shopping lists though, but planning on that. I am the dev so feel free to send me any feedback (good or bad).

I prefer note taking apps for recipes. I use ms OneNote.

myfitnesspal
You can either create meals/recipes for fast input in the future or it will recognize things you regularly input
Plus you can scan barcodes to easily find the correct nutritional values

Anylist is great! There’s options to add a recipe or note to a calendar for meal planning. On days I don’t want a recipe there I just use a note instead. It shows up in the day list same as a recipe would. There’s also a shopping list function that automatically sorts by type of item. Makes shopping easier!

I use google docs and just have a spread sheet with a new tab for each week.

Cronometer is the best I've found. No importing necessary. You just click 'add food', type in eggs, pick from the results, how many, and bam. Breaks down macronutrients, micronutrients, and calories. You can set goals for yourself, track biometrics, input exercises, etc.

Mealime is good for this I think especially cooking for 1 or 2.

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I absolutely love Cozi for this! I've been using it for at least 13 years. You do have to spend a bit of time adding recipes, but once it's done, it's great. I tried Samsung Food recently, and on the surface it seems more convenient but after a couple of weeks I deleted my account and went back to cozi with no regrets. 

I like the Paprika Recipe Manager app. It has a calendar for meal planning, pantry list and you can add recipes to your collection.

For meal planning calendar, AnyList. The paid version is well worth the $15/year to me. I use it for a grocery list, packing list, etc.

I like that it can display recipes on my kitchen Echo Show. And when I add a recipe to a meal plan, I can select which ingredients to auto-add to my grocery list.

OP, keep us posted if you find good recommendations on fridge inventory tracking.

Try PlanToEat.com (they also have an app). They for sure have a calendar and you can add your meals to it and it makes a grocery list. I think there is a way to track your "pantry" so that could be your fridge items...

I’ve been using an app called Savor.ai — you take a pic of your pantry and it suggests recipes based on what’s in there. Super helpful when I’m low on ideas.

I used and liked the app emeals previously!

I use chat gpt for that sometimes. Just give it whatever constraints you want, and it can make your meal plan for the week for you. I’ve never used it to make a grocery list, but I’m sure you could ask it to make the list based on the meal plan it gives you.

Every Tuesday I sit down and plan my shopping over Wed and Thur. I live 15 miles away from any grocery store, and 40 from a good grocery store, so this is all done carefully. Basically I shop the sales. Chuck roast on sale? One for this week, one in the freezer, leftovers for beef barley soup. (That's minimum 4 meals out of 2 chuck roasts, for 4 ppl). Salmon on sale next week? .but enough for a month, or two, it doesn't go on sale often.

By planning carefully I absolutely know I save over 1k a year.

Meal Lime is my favorite.

Check to see if your grocery store has one.

I use the Albertsons app. They have a bunch of pre loaded recipes and you can also create your own.

Best part about it is once you add what you are planning to cook for the week it’ll make you a shopping list which then can be added to curbside pickup

I use Workweek lunch. It's been pretty good so far but costs $8/month.

If you're looking for something that does it all for you. I just launched one that handles the calorie calculations, meal planning, and grocery lists. We'd love for you to give it a try and let us know what you think!

http://planner.anygym.co/join

Mealime!

AnyList!

My girlfriend and I use Paprika. Worth every penny. Lets you scrape a recipe from the web and builds shopping lists based on what you want to make that week.

Here is a meal planning tool that's free. It may be a bit bare bones compared to some of the ones out there, but has recipes a calendar and some helpful features.

https://culinary-bytes.com/

I never found the perfect app. Instead I look at meal plans other people post online. I usually just use most of this guys recipes: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wegmansmealplans

I love Mealime. It has options like Easy to Make and Budget Friendly. You can tell it ingredients you don't like and it tells you what to do step by step with timers. It even calculates to use leftover items to be more efficient when shopping! You can try it for free and pay if you want more from it.

Beatthebudget.com has lots of meal prep recipes

https://www.budgetbytes.com/join has meal planning and budget friendly meals. It's not an app but it might work for you.

Edit: corrected link