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4 Meal Planning Apps That Take the Hard Work Out of Making Dinner

Meal planning app

These apps can do all of the mental preparation for you.

Photo: Oleksiy Makymenko Photography / Alamy

Meal planning doesn’t have to be the bane of your existence—not with nifty new apps that help you create a week’s worth of recipes, and grocery lists too.

The Dinner Daily

For budget shoppers.

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1. The Dinner Daily

Cost: Plans begin at $4 a month, with a two-week free trial.

Sometimes, the easiest and most cost-effective way to plan a week’s worth of meals is to look at what’s on special at your local grocery store. That’s the concept behind the Dinner Daily. A preference survey—including how many people you’re cooking for and any “no broccoli, ever”

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