Meal Hero - family dinner plans & shopping lists
“As a Dad to a 9-month old daughter with two nonstop work lives in the big city, this app is clutch.”
PERSONALIZED FOR YOUR FAMILY’S TASTES:
- Tell us about your eating preferences and favorite dishes, rate a few meals and voila! Together we’ll build a meal plan your family will love.
- Add your favorite go-to meals in just one step. Our technology makes smart ingredient recommendations so you can free up precious space in your memory!
- Love a meal? “Heart” it to save for later and improve recommendations in future plans! The more you use Meal Hero, the better it gets.
SEARCH OR BROWSE OUR DELICIOUS DATABASE
- Use our recipe finder to filter results and select exactly what you’re craving without compromising your goals or needs. We support vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian and paleo lifestyles and have a plethora of Whole 30 and Keto recipes to choose from.
- Does your family have certain favorites? Browse our database of the best recipes selected from millions to find meals your family wants and add them to your plan.
- Enjoy browsing our chef-curated categories built with seasonality and ease in mind.
GROCERY SHOPPING AND DELIVERY MADE EASY:
- When meals are added to your weekly plan, an interactive shopping list is automatically generated and categorized both by department and meal allowing you to easily check off items while you grocery shop.
- Skip the store! Get groceries delivered by sending your shopping list to Instacart or Amazon Fresh through the app. Just review ingredient matching, arrange your delivery and relax!
SAVE TIME, MONEY AND EFFORT THIS WEEK:
- Instead of spending hours skimming recipes sites, digging for old favorites, putting meals on the calendar and writing complicated shopping lists - free up time for yourself and your family by letting us assist you in building the ideal meal plan for your family.
- With a plan, you can nourish your loved ones while saving money and reducing waste. And say goodbye to emergency takeout due to lack of ingredients or time.
DID YOU KNOW?
Meal Hero offers tools to help share your recipe content, or give feedback on our app!
- Are you a recipe creator or food blogger? We’d love to talk about partnering! Lean more and sign up here: try.mymealhero.com/contentpartner
- Hey Parents! We’d love to invite you to participate in user testing, email us or sign up at try.mymealhero.com/mom-tech-tasters
And as always, if you have any questions or would like to make any suggestions, email us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram @meal.hero
Category : Food & Drink
Reviews (30)
Haven't fully used it but experienced some glitchy UI in the set up. I decided to go back and change the serving size and preference settings during set up and it skipped everything after that point. I only know it skipped because I had to uninstall and reinstall the app after it got stuck on a vegetarian preference. Originally I was going to use the vegetarian setting but after changing it to "No Preference" it would still only show me vegetarian options.
The grocery list does not always work, adding recipe links doesn't always work. And it is glitchy . The recipe options on here do not follow the preferences i have added. Ex. I do t eat fish and I have so many fish recipes on my feed.. I love the idea behind this app. I just wish it worked a bit better. I don't have time to add the same item to my shopping g list 6 times before it actually adds.
I'm a super busy working mom with a very demanding job. I've struggled to fit cooking dinner during the week in to my schedule. This app takes all the time-consuming elements of meal planning, and streamlines them in to a simple, free app. I can plan dinners for my family for the week and get all the necessary groceries scheduled for delivery in 10 minutes, and all it costs is the delivery fee from instacart. This has totally changed my schedule, budget, and health!! It is a game changer!!
This is a really good app for the most part. Unfortunately the very 1st recipe I tried, I purchased all of the items on the grocery list it gave me and when I went to make it, the instructions were through a website and the website no longer had the recipe on it. I even googled the recipe and came up with nothing. Be sure that you know you can access the recipe before buying all of the ingredients for something. I had to wing it and it went OK, but could have done that w/o spending extra $.
I like the app. I have already found several recipes that I like and intend to make, and the planning and list making functions are handy. I have two suggestions that I think would make the app better. The first is to be able to report broken links to the original website from where the recipe originated. I have found two recipes already whose primary source no longer has the related articles. The second is to be able to put a recipe in more than one category when I hit the heart button.
It seems like the whole on boarding process is meaningless. I picked a paleo plan and it gave me meals that aren't paleo. it looks like another reviewer had a similar experience. also there are very few dietary restriction options. planning meals around dietary reatrictions is very difficult and weve been trying out different meal plan apps, but it seems thst you can only plan your meals if you dont have any dietary restrictions. 0/10 would not recommend
Not helpful. The recipes suggested were terrible and there wasn't a lot of choices. I tried to add recipes from Pinterest and a blog page but it didn't work. The shopping list feature won't load and the app unfortunately doesn't seem very useful at all.
So far so good. Just downloaded and it looks like there are a lot of good recipes. If i may make a suggestion, most people make meals at the same time of day for the same number of people. It would be nice if I set a default for 7:00 for dinner for 2, and 12:00 lunch for 1, then have the ability to change the time if something odd happens.
First day using the app. Little glitchy. I would scroll through the meals and if I scrolled back it would bring me to another page. It takes a bit to load. But other than that. Good app, I love the function to make a meal and it makes a grocery list you can check off.
Previously was a 5 star app. Now it's laggy and glitchy, and your meal plan doesn't automatically create and remove items from your shopping list. Instead you have to add per meal, and to remove items you have to check off each item at a time. Awful
It's amazing how it can add most websites recipes, ingredients and picture to the plan, and automatically transfer it to a grocery list. I do wish we could manually add recipe and pictures as well for the sites that don't automatically pull in
Meal Hero is by far one of my favorite meal planning apps that comes conplete with a grocery lust. It allows you to plan day by day your meals on a calendar. Meal Hero has so many different diets; from keto to vegan, paleo, just to name a few. This app does not have all those adds that annoy you in the middle of your cooking. And best of all Meal Hero doesn't hook you in and then later want to charge you outrageous prices like all the other apps to upgrade to a pro version! App lags a bit!
Love this app! I'm an 18 year old housewife on a budget and these recipes are delicious, easy to follow, ams affordable. And trips to the grocery store are a snap! With in app, built for your meal week grocery lists I'm in and out with no hassle. I reinstall this app on every new device. Highly recommended!!!
I love this app, but it seems so glitchy! For example, I can't figure out how to add anything to my calendar so that it will show up on my shopping list. I have a "meal plan" that seems different from my calendar? And only what goes on my calendar shows up on my shopping list ...
Installed it and in the sign-in page not one single function worked. Like I was trying to open a screenshot of the page. Since I couldn't even get past the very first page I immediately uninstalled it.
I'd give it a 3 because it is still quite glitchy, but I gave it a 4 because it has the potential to be thr most amazing app! If you could get it running more smoothly I'd gladly pay for it. I love how it is set up!
Went to write a shopping list a particular store, I plugged in my zip code and it didn't respond. I exited 3 times and the response was the same. I'm very disappointed in this app because that feature is why I chose this app.
Good app, easy to use. Wish you could add your own recipes. There's only the option to import them from a website or to find them through the app.
After the update it doesn't work at all. Why fix what was not broken.The app was perfect as is. Now ypu search for recipes and the same stupid popup shows "oops sorry we made a mess". Damn right! What a mess this is!
Kinda wish there was a way to put in menu meal without having to put in recipe like hamburger helper or a certain meal I cook without recipe definitely finding food and ideas worth cooking also an improvement could made as far as food allergies and substitutions for ingredients or recipes without alcohol
I love this App. It makes it so easy to plan meals and shop for ingredients. I would give it 5 stars but the software can get glitchy once and a while.
I really want to like this app. The idea is there, but it seems pretty limited in recipe selection. The back button also doesn't function both stock and app.
I love this app I just wish after you cook a meal the ingredients would remove from the shopping list. Or a delete meal button in the shopping list tab. Otherwise I love this app!
Can't even sign up or sign in... What is happening? Manually signed up, error code, Signed up using Gmail, error code. Signed in using both, error code.
I just downloaded the app and am already frustrated. Who measures in grams and kilograms when cooking? I need 6 servings and so far all the suggested recipes have been 4 servings or less. One recipe said 3 alfredo....no idea if that was cups, jars, or what.
Mel Hero has everything I was looking for all in one application. I can find meals add them to a calender then make a shopping list. The only thing I do not know yet is if it will Intergraph with my googlw home display to let me see my list and directions.
Meal Hero isnt working its an app where you are supposed to be able to import recipes from the web I was unable to get the app to import recipes so unless you only want to use the small amount of intersting recipes on the app this app sadly did not meet my needs but must work for some it had a good rating
It has potential, although it needs diet choices, for example people with ibs-d but are hypoglycemic also need help finding good meals and meal plans etc.
I've found a few recipes but even with my preferences set (like I don't eat fish) all I get are recipes with things I've put as not my preference.
I'm a new user to the app but overall am enjoying it. A couple of features that - to me- would have enabled a 5-star rating would be having the "Browse" feature displayed more prominently at the top of the 'Import' page instead of at the bottom and it'd be nice if the shopping list could be filtered by date to facilitate planning to long term menu planning but weekly shopping for budget and food preservation. It'd also be nice if when you were adding a menu item it displayed prior choices.