Don’t want to go to the store? Try this tool!
Written by admin on April 10, 2008 – 4:33 pm -I came across a cool tool today and just had to share! The website is CookingByNumbers.com, and basically how it works is that you click on some of the ingredients that you have on hand in your fridge and pantry, and it’ll show you recipes that you could make with those ingredients! Genius! It tells you how many ingredients are needed for each recipe it gives you, and what percentage of those ingredients you have on hand, so that helps you narrow the search even better (if you only have 20% of the 12 ingredients needed, maybe should try a different recipe!).
The other thing I really liked was that it tells you if you’re missing an essential ingredient, like potatoes or eggs or something, basically the ones that you probably wouldn’t be able to find a simple substitution to in your fridge or pantry. All of the recipes I checked out that it provided me with were also quick, so that is ALWAYS a plus!
For instance, I checked that I had chicken, cheese, and garlic in my fridge, and oil, herbs, stock cubes & canned tomatoes in my cupbard. It provided me with recipes for things like chicken and cheese parcels and chicken and tomato pasta (it said I had 80% of 5 ingredients for both of those).
One thing to watch out for, though, is that they provide you with the recipes for very small servings on some of their recipes (like those 2 recipes I told you about above were for 1 and 2 servings), so make sure you pay attention to that and convert the amounts of ingredients if needed, or you’re gonna end up with some hungry people!
A lot of the recipes that I looked at seemed pretty basic, maybe even a little bit boring, but hey, when you’re standing in your kitchen thinking you have no food and wondering what to make, I think this tool could help a ton! Check it out!
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