Turn the week's recipes into one shopping list

From plan to list in four steps

1. 1

   Plan the week

   Put recipes from your family book into breakfast, lunch and dinner, or let the AI weekly menu planner fill the empty slots.

2. 2

   Tap “Build this week's list”

   FamPlate gathers every ingredient from every planned dish into one list. You can also send a single recipe's ingredients with To list.

3. 3

   Let the pantry do the checking

   Anything you've marked as already at home is left off. Add anything else you need by typing it, or by voice — you can say several items in one go.

4. 4

   Share it and shop

   Everyone in the family sees the same list. Send it to WhatsApp, Telegram or another app from your phone's share menu, and tick items off as you go.

Duplicates merged into one line

If three dinners need onions, you don't want three onion lines. FamPlate merges the same ingredient into one line and adds up the quantities when the units are compatible — grams with kilograms, milliliters with liters.

It's careful about what it can't know. Spoons, cups and pieces aren't converted into each other or into grams, because FamPlate won't guess what a cup of flour weighs. And every line still shows which dish it's for, so you know why it's on the list and can skip it if that dinner changes.

Skip what is already in the cupboard

FamPlate keeps a pantry: the things “in my kitchen”. When it builds the list, anything already there is left off. When you clear the items you've bought, FamPlate can move them into the pantry, so next week's list knows they're at home.

The same pantry powers Cook with what I have. It shows recipes you can make tonight, ones that are only a few items short — with a button to add the missing ones to the list — and matches from your own recipes.

Sorted into aisle sections

The list is grouped into eight sections, so you go through the store once instead of zig-zagging back for the parsley:

• Fruit, veg & herbs
• Spices & seasoning
• Dairy & cheese
• Meat & poultry
• Fish & seafood
• Grocery
• Frozen
• Other

Shared with the family, but not live

The list belongs to the kitchen, so everyone in the family — up to four people — works from the same one. To send it to someone outside the app, or into a family chat, use the share button: it opens your phone's share menu for WhatsApp, Telegram and other apps.

One honest limit: it isn't a real-time list. If your partner ticks off the milk in the store, you'll see it when you reopen or refresh the list, not the instant they tap. If two of you shop at the same time, split the list by section and say who takes which.

Units, and what's free

Recipes and lists use metric units plus kitchen measures: g, kg, ml, l, pieces, tbsp, tsp, cup, pinch, bunch, clove and “to taste”. Ounces and pounds are not supported for recipes or lists.

Building the list from your plan, adding items by hand and keeping a pantry are free with no monthly limit. Adding items by voice is limited to 10 a month on the free plan; FamPlate+ removes that limit for the whole family, from €4.99 a month.

The habit that ends the third jar of garlic

Most doubled-up groceries are things you had but didn't check. So before you leave for the store, open the cupboard and the fridge — or take a photo of the shelves on your way out. It works tonight, with any list on any phone.

In FamPlate, the pantry does that checking for you once you've marked what's at home, and the items you buy can go straight back into it.

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Keep reading

• AI weekly menu AI fills the empty slots in your week and mixes in your own recipes.
• Family meal planner One shared kitchen for up to four: recipe book, week plan and shopping list.
• Recipe saver Save recipes from links, posts, photos and voice into one family book.