Yummly Recipes & Meal Planning

I love Yummly, I don’t remember how I found out about it. But it has been a lifesaver, it’s great to save recipes I find online that I want to look at later and not get lost in the bookmark section of my phone. It’s also good for a vegan like me to find recipes, but also serving size and nutrition facts.I scan look at all the egan recipes in one place instead of looking them up online and finding out it isn’t vegan. Plus I can look for recipes using certain ingredients I have laying around. They have such a inclusive dietary preference all types of vegetarians, paleo, plus all kinds of allergies. They have now guided videos, I’ll check those out soon and see what they’re like. I honestly can’t think of anything to complain about. It’s a useful tool for me and one of the must-have food apps on my phone. All the other exclusively vegan recipe apps , or just general apps are overpriced and don’t do half the things Yummly does or if they do you have to pay a ridiculous subscription fee. The best part it is all free! Not a free app with a lot limitations on certain recipes, but there’s a premium membership with access to over thousand of recipes and videos. Or it’s a free trial , it’s actually legitimately free, I mean it has prompted recipes from brand companies but its clearly labeled. Plus I mean the app has to be paid for somehow. If that’s the only ads I’ve got to deal with, I’ll take it!

I love this app and use it just about every week depending on how busy the schedule is. There’s recipes for almost everything on here. Every recipe I’ve found has detailed instructions for prep and cooking. I can almost guarantee you will find what you’re looking for here. Convenient meals available at your fingertips. Only spots for improvement in my opinion is not having pop ups to go to some blog every time you want instructions for a recipe. The instructions should be right on the app itself. Not that it’s a major hassle or anything but sometimes I don’t want to read about how much mom loves this recipe and wants to stroke it for ten minutes before she shares her secrets with us, who just want simple instructions so we can accomplish making the meal and enjoying it with family/friends. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes I really enjoy reading the blogs when they’re well written or I’m in an interested mood. It would just be cool to have the option of looking at plain instructions along with going to the blogs as well.

I’m a major Foodie. I have found so many incredible and interesting recipes on Yummly. Even ones I’ve used over the years myself. I really enjoy the ability to research so easily. I try a lot of recipes that fall into several different categories. So it’s always a pleasure to come on to the app and be able to research in less time than books, especially when the recipes give you nutritional information that is accurate. However, with all the great things one thing has begun to bother me somewhat. I go to the recipe and the page is gone and that is when you go to directions. It’s very unfortunate to find a wonderful recipe only to find that it’s not complete or accurate. If you fix this Yummly I will give you the 5 stars. I switch from this app Yummly and Food Network to create a planned menu weekly. I also use true and tried recipes I’ve counted on throughout the years. I try as often as I can to give a comment on the recipe I am trying for the first time. However, with so much cooking and daily life, commentaries can get pushed to the side. I do eventually get to them just may not be the same day. Keep up the great job and work Yummly and please fix that error page, I have been disappointed quite a bit lately from that ordeal. Thanks for asking for a review after I used the app for a while. I appreciate the timing.

Good app. Relatively easy to use. Great customize categories for ‘filing’ recipes. Very good content. I will keep using. Could be a little more intuitive on tech side, esp when searching for recipes. It’s nice to search by ingredient/omit ingredient, & would be better if could just search categories of food by type of food or main ingredient or basic type of recipe name...in other words the equivalent of searching by subject at the library. Have found it hard to do that. When opening a traditional cookbook/recipe book, you can do so and it’s efficient, esp w/an index. It took me 45+ min to find a recipe the other day. Easier access to FULL recipes would be better/appreciated, although I understand why clicking to the recipe author’s scroll-thru-29-ads-and-other-misc-stuff-to-get-to-free-full-recipe-directions is necessary in the current pay-for-play-with-time/distraction/ads/broken up text-model of receiving “free” content via electronic media/apps. I’m not sure if there is a paid version of Yummly and even more important, I have my doubts that a paid version would eliminate the above mentioned scroll-thru-15pages to get to full recipes/instructions.

The design of this app is awesome. It manages to pull recipes from many sources smoothly, and it’s great about searching specific ingredients/certain types of meals. It consolidates all the recipe info in a clean, straightforward way, so when you spot something you want to try you can quickly see nutritional info, ingredients, prep time etc. from the app, without having to scroll through the actual site the recipe was posted on trying to find all that information (if you choose to make the meal you will THEN go to the full recipe site for the directions, but it’s still from within the app). It lets you create different lists, which I really like, and you can even tell it to create shopping lists for you based on the recipe you’ve picked. You can also tell it what ingredients you have on hand and it’ll will give you recipes that you can make using those ingredients, or what time you plan on eating something. It will give you reminders on when to start prepping the meal if you give it a time. So cool. Seriously, this thing is great. I love it.