About MeanMeals.com
MeanMeals.com is your own recipe box online: somewhere to keep the recipes you love, share them with friends, and turn them into a grocery list.
Your recipe box
Your recipe box is where you store your recipes. It's split up into categories (such as "Breads" or "Desserts"), and each category can contain recipes or other sub-categories. For example, "Desserts" could be split up into "Cookies" and "Cakes".
Your recipe box can be public or private. A public recipe box lets other members look through it. Don't worry: you can still make individual recipes private to protect your secret recipes!
Recipes
A recipe page has everything about a recipe: its ingredients, directions, notes and variations. To see one, try the featured recipe on the front page. Recipes are viewable by everyone unless you make them private, and other members can try them out and leave comments.
Each recipe has its own web address, so you can send it to friends and family. You can add a picture of the finished dish, and pictures for each step to help other members who want to try your creations.
Your grocery list
Rather than writing out your grocery list by hand each week, MeanMeals.com builds it for you from the meals you plan to make. When you're looking at a recipe, click "Add to my grocery list" and all of its ingredients are added. You can add extra items too, and print the list when you head to the store.