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Dan Oaks, creator of Cook’n Recipe Organizer and Menu Planning Software, left a comment on this blog and I’ve been meaning to check this out. Now, I have seen similar software online before and, generally, I’ve thought they are a novel idea, but perhaps better suited to large families whose organizational needs make this a more logical investment.
What I have not seen is anything that has quite as many features as this and, of particular interest to you, I think, is that it has the ability to reduce recipes and the shopping list from your meal plans to serve one.
You can produce weekly or monthly meal plans and generate your shopping list, with the neat feature, if you are shopping monthly, as I do, of optionally omitting the perishables for use in week 2 onwards, because you wouldn’t want to buy those at the start of the month and have them perish.
In fact, the way that this software works is so intuitively similar to the way I have been manually creating my monthly meal plans; first taking stock of what I already had on hand, finding recipes that use those ingredients, let you drop them into your plan and producing a shopping list from them.
What I do with scraps of paper and brain power, it does for you.
Anyway, I could have applied to join the affiliate program and, perhaps I shall at some point, but first I wanted to tell you about it without doing so, so you know that I do genuinely think it might be a good idea for you.
Dan has produced an excellent video demonstration showing how the software can do your meal planning, which you can watch here.
NB: If I were to use this software to produce my monthly meal plans in the manner I currently do, I would actually still plan my main meals to serve 4 in one menu and put all the incidentals, side dishes, suppers - including salads and other perishables - as a separate plan to serve one. The software will combine the two menus to create one master shopping list. That way, I would avoid the “how do you divide one egg” problem on the main meals and still take advantage of the facility to omit the week 2+ perishables.
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