Making a list
- Open the menu — the three stacked lines in the top-left corner, on the green bar.
- Press Shopping Lists.
- Press the green Create button on the right, above your lists.
- Type a name in the New List box. Tesco, This week, whatever suits.
- Press the green button to finish. The new list appears with the others.
One list you reuse every week is usually easier than a new one each time.
Sending a recipe to a list
This is the part worth learning. It saves writing anything out.
- Open the recipe you want to cook.
- Look just under the recipe’s picture, over on the right. There is a row of small round blue buttons — a heart, a clock, a pencil, and last of all three dots stacked on top of each other. Press the three dots.
- Choose Add to List from the menu that opens.
- Your lists appear as a stack of white cards. Press the one you want.
- Every ingredient in the recipe is now shown with a tick beside it. Tap any ingredient to untick it — do that for the things you already have in the cupboard. Salt, oil, flour, and so on.
- Press Add to List at the bottom.
Cooking for more people?
Change the servings number on the recipe before you do this, using the
– and + buttons near the ingredients. The
amounts on the shopping list follow whatever the recipe is set to.
Adding odds and ends
Milk, bin bags, anything that isn’t part of a recipe. Open the list and use the Add item box near the top — type what you want and save it. Add them one at a time.
Using the list in the shop
- Tap an item to tick it off. It disappears from the main list straight away, so what is left on screen is what you still need.
- Items sit under coloured headings — Produce, Dairy, and so on — which roughly follows the way a shop is laid out.
- Ticked things aren’t gone. They collect in a bar at the bottom saying something like 6 items checked. Press it to open it up if you tick something by mistake.
- When you get home, open that bar and press Delete Checked to clear the lot and leave the list ready for next week.
It keeps working without a signal.
Freezer aisles and big shops often have no reception. Carry on ticking —
Mealie says You are offline at the top and catches up on its own once you
have a bar of signal again.
Things that surprise people
- The list is shared. Everyone in the house sees the same one. If items start ticking themselves off while you’re standing in the aisle, that’s someone else shopping, not a fault.
- Amounts get added together. Two recipes each wanting one onion show up as one line for two onions, rather than two lines.
- Recipes you’ve added are listed at the bottom. The – button next to one takes all of that recipe’s ingredients back off the list again — handy if you change your mind about cooking it.