MealBoard - Meal Planner

I rarely ever write reviews, to be honest. But I want to shout this one from the mountain tops! Where has this been all of my life? I have never been a meal planner. I pull something out for dinner and decide what to make from there. But hey! I am LOVING this! I host a FB group called From Pantry to Table and share recipes from all over all day long. This app helps me to organize and keep my favorite recipes. I will be importing a lot of recipes! This will help me keep tabs on what I have on hand. I’m trying to whittle it down actually. I just went through an ad and created my shopping list from there. I’m adding what we still need to the grocery list. I love that I can just send the grocery list to my significant other by text or email. I love planning what is for dinner, in advance now. Oh geez! Did I just admit that? The importing of recipes is virtually seamless. I love it! This will help us remember where we bought things. That’s huge! I’d love to see another tab where we can just list items we have to use up, so we keep them top of mind. In the meantime, we’ll do a small whiteboard in our house. I’d love a feature to somehow leave our recipe account willable to family. We don’t want to lose these recipe treasures now! At least this is printable! That helps. I know I will have more ideas. This app is really blowing my mind on ways to use it. I love it and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this app!

I have loved using this app ever since my cousin told me about it a few years ago. Our family of four each have it on our phones, linked, so no matter who is shopping, alone or multiple people at once, we can sync as we shop and get everything on our list correctly. The recipe import function was great and has gotten better with some recent updates such as the option to import ingredients as a text list. The “description “ field is a little hit or miss in terms of what is brought over from web pages. The one thing I always add manually to the description is a note of how many servings are in the original recipe, so that I can refer to that if there’s some part of the directions that makes reference to a specific quantity, especially when ingredients are meant to be divided (such as “add 1/3 cup of the flour”). I also routinely edit directions to add alternative instructions for Instant Pot and for Thermomix, two favorite appliances in our kitchen which take a little experience to know how to convert instructions. MealBoard makes it so easy for the whole family to shop and cook as a team! My only wish is that it be developed for other platforms so all my friends and cousins can use it.

I love love love this app. I'm not an app person at all. I use only two apps on a daily basis and this is one of them. It made my life so much easier and so much more organized. All modules are great but the best is that I can park my car on the way home in front of a grocery store and have a shopping list within 5 minutes for everything that I need for the whole week of meals. I also use it for non-recipe items like milk, bread, butter, etc. I don't buy more than needed thus I don't waste food, i.e. money, but have everything for the recipes. You will be able to get more recipes than you will ever need with two click per new recipe. What a time saver! My favorite site is Weber, because we like grilled food and his recipes are exceptional, but you will also be able to import recipes from website not listed as supported. Someone complained about lost recipes. It has never happened to me, but even if, you should know that our recipes are backed up on weekly basis. All you have to do is to contact Ray, the app developer, and he will help you with that. He has been very responsive with any questions I've had in the past and his support is great. I have been using this app for at least 2 years now and thought I should post a review to say how much I appreciate it. It would be very hard now to live without it!