Cooks The Books App (A Review)

Have you ever found yourself aimlessly wondering around a supermarket trying to find inspiration of what to cook? Or maybe you remember seeing a recipe in a cookbook at home and wanted to give it a try only to discover that you left your shopping list at home? (I do this all the time!)

Cook The Books is a brand new app designed to help you out with both of these supermarket shopping dilemmas. The app (which is free) lists cookbooks from some well known cooks like Jamie Oliver and The Hairy Bikers and every single recipe from each book. However, it does not contain any photos of the recipes or their methods just the ingredients required to make the meal. Therefore, when you are at the supermarket you can simply select a recipe you would like to cook, and highlight the ingredients you need to buy, save them to a shopping list and off you go to buy them.

It is very simple but a great way to be able to try out new recipes without having to write out the ingredients before you leave home. This clever free app features a shopping list for very recipe mentioned in over 50 UK cookery books and there are over 5,000 shopping lists all together. Once you have downloaded the free app you can then purchase and download complete shopping lists from other cookbooks from 69p. 

You can see a demonstration video of the app here

Trying out recipes from new cookbooks when you don't know what ingredients you require, need never be a problem again.