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Recipe to grocery list
Paste a link to a recipe, or the ingredient list itself, and this free converter turns it into a shopping list, sorted in the order you walk a grocery store and ready to copy into your notes or a message.
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Keep lists for every recipe you plan in the Tomato Potato app.
How it works
- Copy the address of a recipe page from your browser or a share sheet.
- Paste it above and tap Make the list. The page is read once for its recipe card, the block of ingredients most recipe sites publish for search engines.
- If the site turns the link away, or the recipe is your own, paste the ingredients in the second box instead, one per line. That list is sorted inside your browser.
- The ingredients come back grouped by aisle: produce first, then bakery, meat, seafood, dairy, frozen, grains, pantry, oils, condiments and spices. Salt, oil and other things most kitchens already have sit in their own group at the end.
- Tap Copy list and paste it wherever you keep your shopping list, or tap Print list for a paper copy with a box to tick beside each item.
Cooking for more or fewer people? The recipe scaler changes the servings first and can send the scaled ingredients back here.
Questions
Which recipe sites work?
Any recipe page that publishes a recipe card in its code, which most food blogs and large recipe sites do. A few big sites, Allrecipes and Serious Eats among them, turn away automated readers. For those, copy the ingredient list from the page and paste it in the ingredients box.
How is the list sorted?
Items to buy follow the order most people walk a grocery store: produce, bakery, meat, seafood, dairy, frozen, grains, pantry, oils, condiments, spices, then anything else. Salt, oil and other things most kitchens already have go in a separate group at the end. The aisle order is the one the Shop list in the Tomato Potato app uses.
Is it free, and is anything saved?
It is free and needs no account. A link is fetched once to read its ingredients, and the link and the list are not stored. Pasted ingredients are sorted inside your browser and never sent anywhere.
Can I use a family recipe or one I typed?
Yes. Type or paste the ingredients, one per line, in the ingredients box. Amounts like 2 cups or 1 lb are kept; lines such as For the sauce: are skipped.
Can I turn several recipes into one list?
This page does one recipe at a time. The Tomato Potato app builds one list from every recipe you plan for the week and adds up the ingredients they share, so two recipes that each need an onion become 2 onions. The guide How to turn a week of recipes into one grocery list walks through it.
Can I print the list?
Yes. Tap Print list next to Copy list. The printout has the recipe title when the page gave one, each aisle, and every item with an empty box to tick and its amount. The form, the menus and the rest of this page are left off.
What if the page has no recipe card?
Some posts write the recipe as plain text or a picture. For text, copy the ingredients and paste them in the ingredients box. For a picture, take a screenshot and save it in the Tomato Potato app, which reads the ingredients from the image.
The app
Tomato Potato is free to download on the App Store (iPhone and iPad) and Google Play (Android). Free includes three saved imports and one Kroger or King Soopers cart; the plan, the list and store searches stay free. A subscription removes both limits for $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year in the US, and the yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Recipes stay on your phone.