Home cooks asked. Allrecipes.com answered. Allrecipes.com, the world's #1 food site, is making meal planning even easier with the introduction of its interactive Menu Planner. The new web-based tool helps cooks save time, save money and eat healthier by allowing them to easily create, edit and save meal plans from an unlimited number of choices-including Allrecipes' massive recipe collection, pre-created menus, personal recipes and favorites saved in a personal Allrecipes Recipe Box.
"A meal planning tool is the most requested feature by our community of 25 million home cooks," said Lisa Sharples, president of Allrecipes.com. "We love getting feedback from our community, so it's exciting when we can deliver features on our site that home cooks have been asking for - features that will change their lives for the better. This sophisticated yet easy to use tool will help our community stay organized, save money and eat better."
With drag-and-drop functionality, the flexible tool allows cooks to create up to 10 days of meals at a time, making it ideal for everyday meal planning. Plus, Allrecipes' menu planner comes with more than 1,200 customizable menu ideas featuring the site's most popular recipes, as well as creative combinations perfect for Valentine's Day, Super Bowl parties and other special occasions. Home cooks can easily save pre-made menus into their collection including: "Three Courses in Thirty Minutes," "One Week - Six Dinners - Just $100," "Low Cal, and Loving It," and "Happily Ever After Couples Shower."
Unique features designed to help home cooks create meals while saving time, money and calories include:
• Browse, create, edit, save and share meal plans with an unlimited number of recipe choices.
• Shopping lists that automatically populate from menus. Cooks can add or delete items from the list based on their pantries, and search for additional recipes based on ingredients already in the shopping list—great for making use of fresh veggies and herbs.
• On-the-fly nutrition - nutritional information tallies calories (and other stats like cholesterol, fat, carbs, sodium and more) for the entire menu, even as you add and remove recipes.
• Every menu includes prep times, photos, and servings for each item within the menu, plus, you can change the serving sizes for the entire menu and all ingredients will update in your shopping list automatically.
• Planning gets easier over time – saved meals can be mixed and matched within the tool to create an unlimited number of menu plans.
• Complimentary recipes can be added to a menu using the "find other recipes to match" feature that auto-fills the search options based on the dish currently in the menu.
• Drag-and-drop functionality—the Menu Planner tool is intuitive to use and functions like an app.
• Over 1,200 pre-made menus created by Allrecipes editors provide inspiration.
• Menu ideas combine recipes that go well together, utilize surplus ingredients by incorporating the same items into multiple dishes, include tips on timing, freezing, making ahead, using leftovers and more.
• Get new (healthy, delicious, time saving) meal ideas delivered to your inbox every week with the weekly Menu email.
The Menu Planner tool is an addition to Allrecipes' Supporting Membership suite of features that include Nutrition Search, Custom Recipes, Advanced Print, Personal Blogs and more. Menu Planner is available to try for free in the "Menus" tab on the Allrecipes.com homepage.
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