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A few weeks ago I went in search of a good meal planner/grocery list app. I downloaded ALL of the free ones but none of them really fit the bill. I found MiMeals and it looked like what I was looking for so I decided that $1.99 was pretty reasonable and if I hated it, wouldn’t hurt me too much.
I was thrilled that I could add recipes and then with a flick of my finger, add all the ingredients to the grocery list. I entered all my meals for the week and added them to the grocery list and set out for the store. I was a multitasking, digital age mama – throwing stuff in the cart and tapping the item to toggle it for removal. I hit the trash can at the top of the page and chose remove checked items and it shut down. Hmm. I tapped the app icon and it opened right back up with all of my items on the list, none of them removed. I toggled a few of them, clicked the trash can and again, it shut down. I reopened it and my list was still full. I figured it was better than losing the list and decided to just do my shopping and not try to delete items. When I got home, I went to the app store and saw that other people were having the same problem. The developers were very apologetic and wrote on their page, that you needed to uninstall and reinstall. I did and lost all my recipes.. Ack! Ok, I thought, this won’t kill me, let’s see if it works now. Nope. I still had the same issue.
Not ready to give up on this app with so much potential I sent an email to the developer. In it, I told them about my issue and made some suggestions about features I’d really like to see. Within a very short time, I heard back from one of them, who sent me a very nice note saying that they had fixed the issue and submitted it to the Itunes store and were just waiting for them to approve it. He told me that most of what I had suggested was in the release and that one of my ideas he really liked and would think about implementing it. The email was so nice and he was so pleasant and I was really happy with the communication.
Today, Itunes informed me that the app had an update, so I rushed right in to download it. It was so worth the wait! This app is really beautifully done. First of all the interface is really beautiful. Great colors, easy to navigate. And yum, who doesn’t love a big bowl of oranges?
You input your meals (and you can move them back and forth between all meals and favorite meals). You can date them if you like, I just kept today’s date, but you could really do this for each day of your planned week, month, year, whatever.
Open a meal and tap “add ingredients to grocery list” and that’s it. Do this with all the meals you want to have for the week and then you can add other things manually (like my conditioner there).
I’ve been really beating up the grocery list and it hasn’t crashed at all, so that’s obviously fixed! For $1.99 you really can’t go wrong and with such nice people behind the app, this one is truly a no brainer.
**Disclaimer: I was not in any way compensated for this review. I bought it, loved it and decided to write about it. **
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Cool! I will try the app!
Hi. Are you still using the Mi Meals app for meal planning? I just got an iphone and found your blog by searching google for meal planning apps. Curious as to whether you are still liking this or have found something better in the mean time. Thanks!
@Sheri, Hi Sheri! Thanks for stopping by! I’m not using this app anymore, but only because I’m doing the meal planning on my blog every Monday and my notes and ideas are stored in Evernote, so mimeals was another step. I’m using Grocery IQ for my shopping list which is free.
Grocery IQ is awesome! I’ve been using it for a few years. My grocery store is always packed so it gets me in and out without straying all over for stuff. I have added Aisle numbers instead of using the aisle category names. So much better.