Whole Foods Market Recipes (Free)
Version 2.0
REVIEW – “Find great recipes and create automatic shopping lists!”
Any app that makes cooking and grocery shopping easier is one that just about everyone can appreciate. This app helps you discover healthy recipes, creates your shopping list and of course helps you locate the nearest Whole Foods Market.
This app starts off by allowing you to search by a number of different parameters, by course, by dietary needs and by the type cooking (budget, family etc). It will then take this info and compile a list of recipes that fit those needs and is bound to be delicious.
Having the recipes on hand is great all on its own but that is not the only thing this app offers. If you find a recipe you like you can create a shopping list with one touch so that you have all the ingredients and their quantities in an easy to use checklist. Or you can save the recipe to your favorites to make later or send it along to someone else who might enjoy it. 
The great thing is that you can plan a whole week worth of meals and have it instantly compile the shopping list for you, all with the right quantities of what you need, so you will never be stuck buying too much or too little. Knowing that I will have everything the recipe requires is a great relief because too often I’ll just happen to miss something or I’ll assume I have it when I don’t and then regret not writing it down once I get to the store.
One thing I didn’t like about the app was that if you put multiple recipes into your shopping list, it would not combine like ingredients. So things like onions or butter would be listed multiple times and I have to scroll through the entire list each time I grab an ingredient to make sure that I have enough to make all of the recipes.
The store locator is easy enough to use but not entirely necessary there are plenty of other iphone apps that can easily look up the location of a whole foods market, but having it in the same app is a nice and appropriate touch.
The app also offers an On Hand feature where it will search for recipes based on what you have On Hand. The downside is that it only gives space for three ingredients and it seemed to rarely work as promised. One search I did using chicken, stuffing and cheese (I assumed I would hit a casserole of some sort) came up with a roasted turkey dish that did not even use chicken and required me to make the stuffing from scratch. I did not have high hopes for the feature since it did only use three ingredients but I was hoping for something a little better. (Another basic search using chicken, cheese and broccoli turned up no results. I soon gave up).
All in all I think the recipes are nice and most of them look delicious. The easy shopping list addition is nice but not practical if you want to make multiple dishes. I think would be great if they could make the list recognize like ingredients and combine the increments but I am sure that would be somewhat difficult to do.
The app is free so I suggest giving it a try!
Stephanie S.
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Developer -Whole Foods Market Inc.
URL: www.wholefoodsmarket.com
DEVELOPER NOTES
Now with Shopping List feature!
Cooking with natural and organic foods? Search Whole Foods Market Recipes for delicious recipes that include everything from dinner entrees to breakfast and beverages.
- Filter by categories such as Budget, Cooking with Kids, and Quick & Easy
- Target special diets, including gluten-free, lowfat, and vegetarian/vegan
- Find recipes that use ingredients you already have with our On-Hand Search feature.
- Build shopping lists from recipes with one click, or add your own items.
Find your nearest store, fast
You can also use our store locator to find the Whole Foods Market locations near you, or search by ZIP code. Each store page includes links to the store’s website and weekly specials.
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