ziplist.com and aisle411.com

Do you have interest in either or both of the following?

• creating an online shopping list you can use on your smartphone
• "clipping" online recipes into a single repository from which you can make such shopping lists

If so, read on.  

Thom and I have been using two different shopping list apps on the iPhone.  Thom uses aisle411, because it can actually tell you where to find the item in the store.  I was using Ziplist, because it lets you save recipes from most any site (including goodintasty), then add them to your shopping list.  I love collecting recipes from all over the web, and have amassed a sizeable collection. 

Unfortunately, Ziplist's shopping list leaves a bit to be desired.  So I took a look at aisle411 and found that, lo and behold, its recipe features are actually powered by ZipList- you can actually link the two.  So yesterday I did just that, then tried out the whole process.

First, I pasted a favorite recipe from the Goodin Family Cookbook into goodintasty, then I used the Ziplist Recipe Clipper to put the recipe into my Ziplist "recipe box":

Then I added the recipe to my shopping list, selecting which ingredients I would need to purchase:

Note: Ziplist has one recipe-based feature it apparently didn't license to aisle411- the ability to add recipes to meal plans, then add the entire meal plan to the shopping list.  It even gives you an iCalendar feed you can use to show your recipes in calendar programs like Outlook and Google Calendar.

Then I opened the aisle411 app on my phone, selected a store, and was ready to check things off as I bought them:

Lastly: when cooking, I open ZipList or aisle411, find the recipe follow the link to the recipe source, then start cooking.


To make all of this possible:

1. Get a ZipList account
2. Install the Ziplist Recipe Clipper and start clipping recipes
3. Get an aisle411 account
4. Link your aisle411 account to your Ziplist account 

As the weeks go by, I plan to post the Goodin Family Cookbook recipes I use most frequently on goodintasty.  That way I get online access to the recipes (as with Thom's GFC PDF), but in a way which lets me add them to my shopping list.

If any family wind up getting a ZipList account, I would be happy to share my recipe file with you.  Just e-mail me.


Tony