Online recipe sites and other menu planning resources

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To assist you with your menu planning and to make it as easy as possible for you, I’ve compiled a list below of recipe sites and other online menu planning resources that I think you will find helpful.

The first group of recipe sites offer a special section that allow you to enter in a list of ingredients you have on hand in order to get a list of corresponding recipes. This is a great feature for creating a menu plan using food you already have in the fridge or freezer.

Kraft Canada
Taste of Home
SuperCook
All Recipes
RecipeLand
FoodieView
Bigoven
Cooks.com
FamilyFun
Recipezaar
MarthaStewart
CanadianLiving
Lovefoodhatewaste
Grouprecipes
Eating Well
Meals Matter

Other helpful recipe sites:

The Food Network
Rachel Ray
Cooking Light
Epicurious
Crockpot recipes
What’s For Dinner?
SparkRecipes
Sandra’s slow cooker recipe collection
5 Dollar Dinners
A Year of Crockpotting
The Recipe Link
Key Ingredient
Recipe Key

Menu Planning Resources:

Menu Planning Central
Menu in a Box
Meal Mixer
Dine Without Whine
Healthy Menu Mailer
Supermarket Savings 101
Meal Planning for Busy Moms
Kid Approved Meals
Menus4Moms
Simplify Supper
Lily on the Fly
My Family Meal Planner
Relish!

Gluten Free sites:

Gluten Free Menu Swap
Book of Yum
Strawberries are Gluten Free
Gluten Free is Life
GFCFSF
Karina’s Kitchen
Celiac Family

Miscellaneous:

Food Tidings - excellent resources for managing meals for others
Supernoots - helping kids make healthier food choices

I’ll continue to add to these lists as I find more. Thanks for your input!


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23 Comments

  1. The Happy Housewife
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 5:22 pm | Permalink

    Great links, thanks for posting these!

  2. Nicole
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 6:04 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for sharing! I’ll definitely put these sites to use. :)

  3. Kitchen Scrapbook
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 6:37 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for posting these lists!

    I keep thinking I’ll start planning meals one of these days, but it never happens. Mid-afternoon usually finds me staring into my fridge/freezer/cupboards. Maybe the last group of links can help get me jumpstarted. :)

  4. magpie
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 6:41 pm | Permalink

    Oo thank you! I’ve been obsessively menu-planning since I first discovered your blog a few weeks ago. It’s fun :)

  5. Jen @ JenuineJen
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 7:06 pm | Permalink

    Hi Laura!

    Thanks for the list! I am always on the lookout for new recipes. I might have overlooked the following site in your list but I do not think I did: http://www.menus4moms.com/. They have weekly menus for free. Of course, one of the best resources is all of bloggers who partcipate in your weekly Menu Plan Monday.

  6. Sister Brenda
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 3:36 am | Permalink

    Thank you for Menu Planning Resources:
    That was allot of work for you to do..
    Blessings Sister Brenda

  7. DIYMommy
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 5:07 am | Permalink

    Awesome list! Thanks so much!

  8. Alaina
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 6:18 am | Permalink

    Hey Laura,
    I used the advanced recipe search on eatingwell.com

    You also get the nutritional information on the recipes!

  9. Jess
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 4:50 pm | Permalink

    I have one to add! We use http://www.mealsmatter.org/index.aspx for our our menu planning, and it has lots of great recipes too!

  10. Amy
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 7:13 pm | Permalink

    That is soooo helpful - thank you!!

  11. Cathy | Mommy Motiva
    Posted May 20, 2008 at 4:08 pm | Permalink

    Hi Laura,
    I publish a website dedicated to menus & recipes that are gluten-free & KID FRIENDLY. It is the kid-friendly part that makes this sooooo unique. :) Would love to have more people aware of all the stuff that I’ve put online (& maybe prevent others from learning the hard way!). The site is http://strawberriesareglutenfree.com

    thanks for the linkie for Monday Menus! :)

  12. Cathy | Gluten Free
    Posted May 25, 2008 at 9:09 pm | Permalink

    Thank you Laura!

  13. Melissa
    Posted July 15, 2008 at 7:51 pm | Permalink

    I put your button on my blog. Thanks for the great ideas. I am always looking for recipes that my children with allergies could have. And I think I found a good link from your site.

  14. Vanessa
    Posted September 23, 2008 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for inspiration and recipes. My friends an I have meal swap and just started our own blog. Check us out at http://freezersupperswappers.wordpress.com for our menus & recipes.

  15. Freedom Hartley
    Posted November 8, 2008 at 7:43 am | Permalink

    Here is one that I’ve been using for quite a while now and I love it! You can put your own recipes into it, use other peoples recipes and even print a shopping list that is automatically made for you based on the recipes you put into your planner. Even better is that its FREE!

    http://www.tastyplanner.com

  16. Donna
    Posted January 19, 2009 at 10:45 am | Permalink

    I have a nice menu planning site I don’t see in your list. I just love your site and would love to see this link.

    This is RecipeLink Surf4Supper

    http://tinyurl.com/a8psxy

    Thank You for all the work you do to make our lives easier. Donna in Northern California

  17. Michelle Twitty
    Posted January 21, 2009 at 9:44 am | Permalink

    Is there a website out there where I can store my recipes, but then use the links for your menu plan monday? I’ve seen lots of recipes (like tastebook) that allow you to organize recipes, but I haven’t found any that allow me to link up. Does that make sense?! Maybe not!
    Thanks!

  18. Michelle
    Posted January 26, 2009 at 9:23 am | Permalink

    I also have a Gluten Free (Casein Free too) blog http://soccermom46368.blogspot.com/

  19. Michele @ FoodieView
    Posted February 27, 2009 at 11:44 am | Permalink

    What an awesome list of food resources! I’m so excited that FoodieView made the cut. Thank you, Laura, for including us! If you (or anyone else who reads this comment ;))have any suggestions, questions or comments about the site, please don’t hesitate to contact me. We appreciate your support so much!!! - Michele @ FoodieView

  20. Doug Gray
    Posted March 11, 2009 at 9:20 pm | Permalink

    Here’s another great recipe site including Clean Eating recipes and info: http://www.cleaneatingonline.com

  21. Patti
    Posted March 29, 2009 at 3:58 pm | Permalink

    wow what an awesome site with so much to see and a lot of resources. I thought when I first stumbled upon this site I saw a place to download a sheet to actually write the menus on, what to buy at grocery, etc. I have lost where I saw this. Was it on this site??

  22. Lisa
    Posted May 27, 2009 at 11:13 am | Permalink

    Another great meal planning site is
    Everything But the Chef

  23. Lisa
    Posted May 27, 2009 at 11:16 am | Permalink

    oops. Hope I got it right this time! Everything But the Chef

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