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 Tasty Kitchen
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
Meal Mixer
Dine Without Whine
Meal Planning for Busy Moms
Kid Approved Meals
Menus4Moms
Simplify Supper
Lily on the Fly
My Family Meal Planner
Relish!
Stolen Moments Menu Planning
SOS Cuisine
Free Menu Planning E-Book @ Econobusters
The Dinner Spin
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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Great links, thanks for posting these!
Thanks for sharing! I’ll definitely put these sites to use. :)
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. :)
Oo thank you! I’ve been obsessively menu-planning since I first discovered your blog a few weeks ago. It’s fun :)
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.
Thank you for Menu Planning Resources:
That was allot of work for you to do..
Blessings Sister Brenda
Awesome list! Thanks so much!
Hey Laura,
I used the advanced recipe search on eatingwell.com
You also get the nutritional information on the recipes!
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!
That is soooo helpful – thank you!!
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! :)
Thank you Laura!
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.
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.
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
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
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!
I also have a Gluten Free (Casein Free too) blog http://soccermom46368.blogspot.com/
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
Here’s another great recipe site including Clean Eating recipes and info: http://www.cleaneatingonline.com
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??
Another great meal planning site is
Everything But the Chef
oops. Hope I got it right this time! Everything But the Chef
Hi! I just love your site and would love it if you would add my blog to your list too…. I believe there is no one way to meal plan so I write about ALL different kinds of options for busy parents to find the solution that works for them (which can change from week to week too!). Thanks!
I can’t believe you don’t have http://www.savingdinner.com listed in your resources! I have used this service for my menu planning for years. They have awesome Freezer Menus (prep it all in one day then cook it when you’re ready), weekly menus, and they offer Gluten Free as well which is a MUST for my family! Hope to see this added to your list in the future.
I’m pretty sure you can get a free menu sample if you sign up for their newsletter as well (which is packed with useful info as well as free recipes). Hope you check it out!
after re-reading my post I hope you know my first sentence was said with a big smile :-) it sounds sort of harsh and that’s TOTALLY not what I was meaning to imply. Love your website and all the useful information. Keep up the great work!
I like to use e-mealz.com. It’s a pay site, but at $5/month, totally worth it. You can choose a menu plan that fits the grocery store where you shop most often! There’s an Aldi plan, a Wal-Mart plan, Kroger, etc, etc. They’ve really cut down on my menu/grocery list planning time.