Mealime Meal Plans & Recipes

We have been using mealime since 2022. Prior to this app, if we wanted to eat healthier or cook a meal we had to google for recipes, which is sometimes difficult already because you don’t know how to Google foods you’ve never really heard of before. You have to read the whole recipe to see whether or not it was healthy or what ingredients it required. Then we had to manually write down the grocery list of the items we needed and then whenever we were ready to actually cook it we’d have to go find the recipe again and have a laptop out to read the recipe, or if we were lucky, we could print it out, but even then we started hike punching all those recipes and putting them into the binder. The whole process took forever and I don’t think it was really ensuring that we ate healthier. We didn’t always have the time to go through all of that so we would just go to the store and buy the same old pizza, spaghetti, and chicken nuggets. Now though, we can put in our food preferences, the app automatically shows us all the foods that we could choose. We click it and BOOM grocery list. Even better if there’s things around the house that we need to get while we’re at the grocery store, like toilet paper, we could just open up the app and add it to the list. Meal seriously makes everything so simple. My wife and I have had stable weight now. We eat a better variety of foods that sometimes we don’t even envy going out to eat.

I can’t recommend this app enough! It has everything you want in a meal planning app: options for food preferences and allergies, endless variety of delicious and nutritious meals, automatic grocery lists with the ability to add your own groceries and check off what you already have, options for grocery delivery, budget friendly meal options, easy meals instructions, and the ability to import recipes from other sites or add in your own recipes from scratch. I’ve been using this for about a month and have not yet eaten the same meal twice. I particularly love that each instruction includes ingredient measurements so you don’t have to keep switching back and forth between views. It can make grocery shopping a bit more time intensive if you’re not used to shopping for certain ingredients or do your own own self checkout (particularly for produce that doesn’t have barcodes), but it’s 100% worth it. This app completely eliminates the mental load of deciding what’s for dinner but without the waste and cost of subscription meal boxes. I love knowing that I have all the ingredients needed for the meals, and I’m not wasting as much food. The only thing I wish this app could do is sync to my partners phone so they can see the meal plans and shopping lists on their own app, but it’s not a big since you can also share those via a text/email option.

I’ve been using this app since January, and I love it!! 10 minutes and I have my week planned, including grocery list, which makes shopping so easy!! I’ve also realized that my grocery bill is less because I’m actually sticking to my list, rather than guessing and adding items I really don’t need. Plus, because my preference is flexatarian (to accommodate my husband’s preference for meat), we are still eating much more healthfully 👍I generally choose 5-6 meals, plus a night of leftovers, as well as leftovers for lunches (there are 2 of us, but I plan for four). Consequently, I have less waste; that is, by the end of the week, the fridge is practically empty! So no throwing away things I didn’t use that went bad 👍I also find that because I can use the ingredient list for each recipe to pull out all the items beforehand, prep time goes so much quicker and easier. It’s great! Mostly, I love the variety each week! And I took NO time finding recipes in cookbooks, etc! There are so many recipes in this app to choose from! I’m pretty sure I’ve only repeated one recipe in three months, but only because I liked it (not because I ran out of choices). So now it’s almost April, and I’ve decided to sign up for Pro. I really don’t need to (because there are still so many free recipes I’ve yet to try), but truly, I am so grateful to the chefs and developers of this app that I want to support them. The small fee is NOTHING compared to amount I’m saving in my grocery budget! In short, I recommend this app to anyone who wants to eat healthfully and save money!