Cooking (or learning to cook) is not always easy. You have to find good recipe ideas, prepare them, adapt them according to your ingredients or everyone’s tastes… Here is our selection of the best free applications for making good meals.
Cooking is a skill that may seem very simple, even fun, for some. For others, it’s a real ordeal because of a lack of time, motivation or inspiration (or all three at the same time). pre-cooked meals, fast food and kebabs salad-tomato-onion-white-sauce-harissa-merci-chef are therefore the easy solution. However, preparing your own food can have virtuous consequences, on your health of course… but also on your wallet. Here are some applications for recipe ideas. Do not hesitate to associate them with applications for shopping.
Thousands of cooking recipes for everyone
Before getting busy in the kitchen, you have to know what you want to prepare. If you lack inspiration, a lot of applications are available on which you will find many appetizing recipes. Among these, we are necessarily obliged to mention Marmiton, an ideal platform for finding easy and complete recipes. On it, you can discover countless recipes posted by other users.
And once you feel the audacity, you can in turn share your recipe ideas. The ideal tool to learn new tricks. The application is often updated and the site is very pleasant to use. We have retained a very interesting feature which consists of indicating the foods available to you in the application, which will then offer you recipes that include them.
You can also turn to alternatives such as 750g which notably offers videos or to search by ingredient.
To brew more broadly, you can also explore the side of the English-speaking application Yummly.
The social network for cooking recipes
Impossible not to mention Youmiam in this selection. This application adds a real social aspect to the experience. Indeed, the home page is a kind of news feed reminiscent of classic social networks. Thus, it is possible to follow people, whether amateurs or professionals, to comment on the recipes and to “yum” them. The recipes are easy to follow and the application is full of very useful features: short videos to learn basic cooking techniques, voice control to go from one step to another… In short, it’s really worth trying!
Vegetarian and vegan recipes
Traditional applications often offer vegetarian or vegan recipes, but they are not fully devoted to them. This is where an app like Vegetarian and vegan recipes comes in.
Available only in English (sorry), it offers a host of inspired recipes that are specially designed for vegetarian or vegan diets (depending on your case). Practical, each recipe is accompanied by practical nutritional information for those who want to be sure to eat a balanced diet.
Finally, there is a nice Empty Fridge option that allows you to find recipes based on what you have left as an ingredient when you haven’t had time to shop.
sports recipes
When you do a lot of sport, you not only have quite a bit of time to devote to cooking… but also very specific nutritional needs. If you are looking for recipes to follow your bodybuilding or fitness program, you will certainly find what you are looking for with FitMenCook, an application dedicated to athletes who want to have fun at the table. Here’s something to make the most of your time in and out of the room!
Zero waste: your fridge against waste
Let’s not forget Frigo Magic in this selection, a fun application that provides cooking recipes based on what’s in your fridge and cupboards. Indeed, in the list of pre-selected ingredients, all you have to do is tick those you have on hand to generate a recipe that will not require you to leave your home to buy vermilion lilacs from Colombia, Jerusalem artichokes with anise (I just invented these ingredients) or other exotic foods you’ve never heard of.
Perfect for those evenings when the motivation is just enough to cook, without detour.
The app for healthy eating
Also take a look at the French Yuka application. It allows you to know the exact composition of a product and its impact on health. The perfect tool for anyone wishing to eat “healthy”.
Just scan the barcode for Yuka to decipher the repulsive component label for us. You can then easily visualize which products are good and which are best avoided.
As a bonus: weekly recipes
This is not an application and in addition the platform unfortunately does not seem to work on mobile. Despite this, we recommend that you take a look at the menu factory of the Eat and Move website. This service allows you to plan your meals for the week to eat a balanced diet according to the number of people in your household.
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