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5 Cheap Dinners for Two, With One Shopping List
Five cheap weeknight dinners for two that share their ingredients: curry, pasta, tortilla, chilli and dal, with the combined shopping list worked out.
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Ideas for cooking at home, keeping your recipes in order and getting more out of the app.
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How Far Ahead Can You Bake Christmas Cookies?
How far ahead to bake Christmas cookies, how long each kind keeps, what to freeze, and a week by week baking plan from mid November to Christmas.
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Christmas Dinner Timeline: What to Do and When
A Christmas dinner timeline from the week before to serving: when to thaw the turkey, what to make ahead, and an hour by hour plan for the day.
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Cups to Grams: Flour, Sugar, Butter and More
How many grams in a cup of flour, sugar, butter, rice or honey? A per ingredient table with half and quarter cups, sourced from USDA and King Arthur.
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How to Digitize Your Family Recipes and Cookbook
Turn grandma's printed or handwritten recipes into searchable recipes on your phone: how to photograph the pages, fix old measures and keep the originals.
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How to Keep Your Phone Screen On While Cooking
Stop your phone locking mid recipe: the Auto-Lock setting on iPhone, Screen timeout on Android, why leaving them off is a bad idea, and a better fix.
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Meal Prep for Beginners: A Simple First Week
Meal prep for beginners: three ways to prep, a 90 minute first session, how long food keeps in the fridge and what to freeze.
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How to Organize Recipes: 5 Ways Compared
Screenshots, Pinterest boards, a notes app, a binder or a recipe app: five ways to organize your recipes, with honest pros and cons, and how to pick one.
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How Much Pasta and Rice Per Person?
How much dry pasta and rice to cook per person, as a main or a side, how many 500 g packs to buy for 2 to 8 people, and what real recipes use.
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Recipe App Without an Account, Ads or Tracking
What to check before you trust a recipe app with years of recipes: account, ads, offline use, and what happens if you stop paying. A checklist, answered.
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Why Recipe Blogs Are So Long, and How to Skip to It
Why recipe sites bury the recipe under a life story, ads and pop-ups, and six quick ways to get straight to the ingredients and steps.
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How to Save Recipes from Instagram and TikTok
Save a recipe from an Instagram or TikTok post so you can actually cook it: copy the link, keep the caption, and turn it into ingredients and steps.
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How to Save Recipes from Websites (iPhone, Android)
Four free ways to save a recipe from any website, what each one is bad at, and how to save just the recipe to an app with your phone's share button.
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How to Scale a Recipe Up or Down (Without the Maths)
Halve, double or turn a recipe for 4 into one for 6: the conversion factor, how to round eggs and spoons, and what to change for pans and baking times.
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