How to Build a Shopping List Straight from Your Recipes
3 min read
The failure mode of grocery shopping is always the same: you shop from memory, memory is optimistic, and at 6pm you discover the one missing ingredient the dish cannot survive without. The fix is unglamorous and completely effective — a list built from the actual recipes you plan to cook.
Cooking Together builds that list for you. Every recipe can send its ingredients to your shopping list, your meal plan can send the whole week’s in one tap, and the list keeps track of what belongs to what.
Add ingredients from any recipe
From a recipe, add its ingredients to the shopping list and choose what you actually need — no point buying olive oil because a recipe mentions it. The list lives behind the menu in the top corner, one tap away whenever you are in the store.
Organized by recipe, not a jumble
Items stay grouped by the recipe they came from, so the list reads like your cooking plans: the chicken and the lemons under Tuesday’s dish, the chickpeas under the salad. When plans change, you can see exactly which items just became unnecessary.
Add the odds and ends by hand
The + button adds anything that is not from a recipe — dish soap, coffee, the yogurt someone demands. One list for the whole shop beats a recipe list plus a sticky note.
Check off as you go
In the store, tap items off as they land in the cart. The remaining list is always the answer to "what aisle am I still missing?" — which is the entire point.
- Build the list when you plan the week, not in the car park.
- Before shopping, skim the list against your pantry and remove what you already have.
- From the meal planner, one tap adds the entire week’s ingredients at once.
Frequently asked questions
Can Ask AI add ingredients for me?
Yes — while viewing a recipe, you can ask the AI assistant to add its ingredients to your shopping list, along with anything else about the recipe.
Does scaling a recipe change the amounts on the list?
Add ingredients after setting the serving size you plan to cook, so the amounts you shop for match the batch you will make.
Get the app
Cooking Together is free on iPhone, iPad, and Android. Import your first recipe in under a minute.