Grocery Cook
for iPhone
Grocery Cook takes some of the hassle out of grocery shopping and cooking. For example, you’re wandering around a supermarket and you would like to give ready-meals a break but you have no idea what ingredients to get. The application generates a shopping list by merging your regular shopping list with recipe ingredients. You can enter your own recipes you get from friends, websites and books. The planner allows you to roughly plan the meals you are going to have for the week. And the timers provide reminders while you’re cooking so you can be busy browsing the web without burning the meal!
Groceries
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| The "all" list is generated from "to get", "have", "regulars" lists and recipe ingredients. It is sorted in the order you last checked them off, equating roughly to your route through the supermarket. This can be manually tweaked. | When typing in item names a list of previously entered items appears which speeds up the process. |
Recipes
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| If you have a large number of recipes you can search by title, course, cuisine or main ingredient. | Ingredients can be checked off as you gather them on the worktop. | Pressing the next button moves you onto the next method step. | You can add your own recipes, entering as much or as little information as you want. |
Planner
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| You can plan the meals you are going to have for the week. | You can quickly setup defrost reminders. | You can change the first day of the planner – usually the day you go shopping and the times that the defrost reminders go off at. | If you are not in when a defrost reminder goes off you can postpone the reminder for a time when you are back home. |
Timers
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| You can group timers into sets – usually one per meal. | You can run a number of timers independently. Timers continue to work when the application is in the background or when the device is turned off (where device/OS supports it). | Each timer can have a number of intervals. For example, you might want to be reminded to put the chicken nuggets into the oven after 15 minutes. You can enter negative intervals that are relative to the following interval. For example adding -10 before “turn off oven” would add an interval of 20. |
Settings
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| In settings you can decide whether to "scale ingredients". For example say a recipe serves 4 people but you want the quantities of the ingredients to be adjusted for 2 people. |