How to send your grocery list to your mobile phone
In the last post, I published a video showing a Shop’NCook grocery list on my iPhone. There seems to be some confusion about this - somebody even sent his grocery list to my iPhone!
Anyway, in case you are wondering, you don’t need an iPhone - or a Blackberry, an Android or other smart phone - to get your grocery list on your phone.
Shop’NCook Pro comes with an e-mail feature that makes it really easy to send grocery lists to your phone. It isn’t either a new feature. Actually, it had this capability from the very beginning, - even when it wasn’t usual to read e-mails on mobile phones, - as I wrote Shop’NCook partly because I wanted to be able to send my grocery lists to my husband. But that’s another story…
So what do you need to have your grocery list on your mobile phone?
If your phone supports e-mails, it’s very easy. You just need to set up Shop’NCook to send e-mails to your phone.
If it doesn’t support e-mails but has Java (and chances are that it does), you can sign-up for a browser-based e-mail account like GMail, set up Shop’NCook to send the grocery lists to your new account and install Opera browser for mobiles to view your grocery lists.
In both cases, you get a practical shopping list with checkboxes that you can mark as you go.
Now, even if your phone does not support Java - or if it does, but installing Opera sounds a bit too complicated, - don’t despair! You can probably still have your grocery list sent to your mobile phone very easily. You see, most mobile carriers have a free “SMS gateway”, which takes e-mails and delivers them to your phone as SMS text messages. For example, if your carrier is AT&T, you send an e-mail to your-10-digit-phone-number@txt.att.net - now your have to replace your-10-digit-phone-number by your actual phone number - and receive it as SMS on your phone. Just ask your carrier for the e-mail address you should use (or check this list).
That’s it for sending grocery lists to your mobile phone. More to come soon on setting up Shop’NCook to send e-mails.
December 10th, 2009 at 7:53 am
I don’t have gmail, I have hotmail. is there any way to be able to send to this account.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Wanda,
You should be able to. If you have a mobile phone that supports e-mails, try the settings here to get your e-mails on your phone. Otherwise, you can read them on Opera browser.
December 31st, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Hi,
I am happy you sent this…I have 3 G I touch. I am excited to send an email of my grocery list, but would like to send the menu calendar to my phone also…the best would be to send the menu calendar to sync w/ my ICAL (which also syncs w/ google cal). I would love to click on the day and see what I planned for dinner that night to check that it still works w/ the ever changing kid schedule and leftovers in the refrigerator. Then I would like to walk in and see under the note portion of my ICAL event for that recipe: the prep instructions and ingredient list! That would be a perfect world.
Another app I would enjoy would take 1 portion of what is for dinner in your meal plan and sync the calories to my Ipod Touch program Lose It! This program is great to keep w/ you on the go during the day and log what you eat, but when it comes to adding 1 portion of a meal, it doesn’t do that.
Thanks so much for your thorough and wonderful food planning software! Happy New Year! Healthy New Year! Organized New Year! Good Food New Year!
January 5th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Sherry,
Thank you for the great suggestions!
You can already send actually your menu to the iPhone by e-mail. I will see what I can do to integrate it with iCal. Happy New Year to you too!
February 19th, 2010 at 5:13 am
I have entered the information to email the shopping list. However, each time I click “send” the following message pops up: Error during message sending.” What can I do to fix this?