Flexible Grocery Shopping with the iPhone – Call for Beta Testers

by Mathilde on December 19, 2011

Flexible grocery shopping with Shop'NCook iPhone appFor the last few years, I became gradually frustrated with static shopping lists that I cannot tweak or modify during the actual grocery shopping. I started to feel the need for a more flexible shopping list and meal planning that you can adapt as you go, changing the list while shopping to use what you find in the shops, for example to take advantage of bargains.

I sent a survey about a year ago with some vague ideas for a new iPhone application for a flexible grocery shopping and got an overwhelming response – hundreds of detailed replies loaded with fantastic ideas. Reading them, I took pages and pages of notes!

These ideas have finally crystallized into a new iPhone application – a flexible grocery shopping app, integrated with a recipe organizer, that is capable to adapt recipes, shopping list and meal plans on the go.

The beta testing of the new app has just started and there are still a few spots available. If you are interested to participate, I will need you to send me first some information on your iPhone, so that I can create a provisional profile for your device, as required by Apple, in order to allow you to download the app to your phone without going through the app store.

If you would like to participate, please leave a comment below, or alternatively send me an e-mail, and I will send you the detailed instructions to get started.

Unfortunately, Apple limits strictly the number of beta testers for any given developer account. I can only accept a small number of additional beta testers. If you would like to contribute to improve the new app, please apply right away!

Update: Due to the large number of people who responded to the call so quickly, I have to close the applications early. Thanks to all for your support! For those I could not take, please look forward to the new release in January.

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New help desk for Shop’NCook

by Mathilde on October 11, 2011

New help desk for Shop'NCookIf you have any questions about Shop’NCook, you can now find the answer to your question, contact us or get help from other Shop’NCook users in the new help desk. You will find there step-by-step tutorials, videos, frequently asked questions and more.

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3 Tips to Improve your Nutritional Food Labeling with Software

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10 Minutes to Recipe Software Shop’NCook

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If you are cooking or plan to cook with OAMC principle, that is, set a day aside to prepare a bunch of meals in advance and freeze them one day per month, a meal planning software may help you plan and save further time. This post shows you step by step how to do OAMC with Shop’NCook software.

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Tutorial 1: How To Fix Ingredients In Your Recipes

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The first tutorial in the new tutorial series for Shop’NCook 4.0 is here. It shows you how to fix your recipe when the software did not correctly recognize some ingredient lines – and how you can teach it to recognize them correctly the next time. You will be also able to see which chef made [...]

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What do you think of the new chefs?

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Survey: next mobile cooking application

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Did it ever happen to you: you are in the supermarket and there is this beautiful piece of meat at half price or some unusual vegetable that inspires you but you don’t remember the ingredients you should get with it? Or the supermarket is out of one of the key ingredient of your meal plan [...]

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Help! Which is the best cook?

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I am having a video introduction made for the new series of tutorial. There is a cook appearing at the end of the intro and I have two options now with a different cook. We are having a heated discussion at home on which is the best. It has probably something to do with the fact [...]

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Grow and organize your collection of recipes with Shop’NCook Reader 4.0

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I am happy to announce the new release of Shop’NCook Reader 4.0. Shop’NCook Reader is the free edition of Shop’NCook software. I had first created it to allow users of the premium versions of Shop’NCook to share their cookbooks with their friends and family. It had however been mostly broken for a while: it wasn’t completely [...]

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