Deciding what to make for dinner just got a little easier with Allrecipies’ updated Dinner Spinner app.
The updated app now allows you to keep track of what food items you have at home in a virtual pantry, and scan items at the grocery store with your smartphone to find recipes to make with that item.
“We found through the comScore MobiLens report that 58 percent of smartphone owners use a phone while in brick and mortar stores to shop, and 1 in 5 use it to scan barcodes,” Allrecipies.com Director of Communications Stephanie Robinett told Mashable. “Integrating this technology into our app allows us connect a massive database of millions of grocery products to our collection of trusted recipes.
“With one click a home cook can scan an item, and with another add it to their shopping list, search for a recipe or save it in their scan history creating a virtual pantry on their mobile device so they know what they have at home when they’re at the store.”
With the app, you can scan items you’ve run out of and add them to a shopping list. If you run into a bargain while you’re out shopping, you can scan the well-priced item to see what fantastic dinner options you can potentially create. Since you’re keeping up with your food in a virtual pantry, you can also easily see what you have at home while you’re out shopping, preventing you from purchasing something you might already have on hand.
Allrecipies currently has more than 12 million downloads of its Dinner Spinner and Dinner Spinner Pro apps for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Kindle Fire, and the Allrecipes.com Your Kitchen Inspiration app for iPad.
While both Dinner Spinner and Dinner Spinner Pro offer some of the same functionality, the Pro version of the app also allows you to save recipes and create shopping lists on the site and then access that information later on your mobile phone.
So, what sorts of things are people cooking? Allrecipies says the top recipe is “Good Old Fashioned Pancakes.” Second place goes to “World’s Best Lasagna,” followed by Banana Banana Bread, Easy Meatloaf, and then Easy Sugar Cookies.
Epicurious also has a mobile app that helps you discover recipes based on what’s in your refrigerator, create shopping lists and store recipies. The app is also built into many Samsung fridges.
What do you think about Allrecipies update? Can you see yourself using the new features in the app? Let us know in the comments.
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