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Get cooking with Paprika

Get organized in the kitchen and the supermarke­t with this recipe app

- Gary Marshall

It’s one of those apps you’ll wonder how you ever managed without

REQUIRES Paprika Recipe Manager you will learn How Paprika can help you cook, shop and plan your meals IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes

If you cook, you’ll love Paprika Recipe Manager. As the name suggests, it’s a way to manage your recipes, but it’s more than just Notes with a list of ingredient­s. It can automatica­lly scale recipes for more or fewer guests, and you can use it to set timers, plans meals to cut waste, and even create shopping lists.

The shopping list is smart too, so it organizes ingredient­s by category, and combines ingredient­s from multiple recipes – so if you’re shopping for three meals that use eggs, it’ll calculate the total number of eggs rather than list each recipe’s requiremen­ts separately.

Where Paprika really excels is in its integratio­n with Safari. As you’ll see, it’s incredibly easy to grab recipes from your favorite sites, and there are good importing options too. On the rare occasions Paprika can’t import the recipe directly, it has a built-in web browser that you can use to highlight and grab the relevant informatio­n.

The other great thing about Paprika is its ability to sync to the cloud, and since it’s a cross-platform app, you’ll also be able to use it on your Mac, Android, Kindle Fire, and Windows devices.

Being able to search for recipes by ingredient is particular­ly handy, both for reducing waste and inspiring you when you’ve no idea what to do for dinner.

Paprika isn’t free, however. It’s $4.99 on iOS and $19.99 on the Mac, but that’s cheaper than buying cookbooks and you’ll turn to it much more often. It’s one of those apps you’ll wonder how you ever managed without.

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