How To Add Grocery Items To Your Grocery List In The Simple Recipe App

Curating a grocery list before shopping trips helps you save time and stay organized while shopping. There are three different ways to add items to your grocery list in the Simple Recipe app. 

Adding Grocery Items From Recipes

Need ingredients to make a specific recipe? You can easily add all ingredients from a recipe or just a select few ingredients to your grocery list in the app. 

1. Open the recipe you need to purchase ingredients for
2. Press the grocery cart icon with the plus symbol above it to begin adding ingredients to your cart
3. By default, Simple Recipe will select all the ingredients from the recipe to add to your cart. You can unselect all ingredients and only check the ingredients you need if you don’t need all of them
4. Once you’ve got the ingredients you need selected, you can click “Confirm” and the ingredients will be added to your grocery list

Adding Grocery Items From Meal Plans

Planning ahead to stock up for the meals you’ll soon be cooking? You can add ingredients from recipes in your meal plan with just a few taps. 

1. Navigate to the meal plan screen
2. Press the shopping cart icon with the plus symbol above it in the top left of the screen
3. By default, the app will select all of the meals in your plan, but you can manually select the recipes you’ll need to buy ingredients for
4. Press the “Add” button to navigate to the ingredient add view
5. By default, Simple Recipe will automatically select all ingredients from each selected recipe to add to the grocery list. You can manually select the ingredients by unselecting all ingredients from each recipe and only checking the ingredients you actually need
6. Once all the ingredients you need are selected, you can press the “Confirm” button to add the ingredients to the grocery list

Manually Adding Grocery Items

While adding grocery items by recipe or by meal plan can save you time, you may still want to add items that aren’t in a recipe. This is where manual entry comes into play. 

1. To manually add an item to the grocery list, start by navigating to the groceries view
2. Type the item you need into the input box at the bottom of the screen
3. Press the plus symbol next to the input box to add the item to your list