Tools And Resources
Quick And Healthy Recipe Collections
Quick And Healthy Recipe Search
Meal Planning
Converters
Other Resources
Recipe Collections
Recipe Finder. Online Recipes at your fingertips
Recipe Finder brings together more than 10000 free recipes from some of Australia's favourite TV shows, magazines, and food brands. It allows you not only to view recipes in common categories like Course and Flavor, but also Special Options (e.g. low-fat, nut-free, low-cost, kids’ recipes), Occasions (e.g. mother’s day, picnics, romantic dinner) and Cuisine.
BBC Food
Database with thousands of recipes which offers very advanced search options.
Quick And Healthy Dinner Recipes And Menues
Dinner recipes that can be prepared in 30 or 20 minutes or less.
Lifehack
More than 100 quick and easy recipes in the categories Breakfast, Salad Entrees, Soups, Fish, Chicken and Turkey, Lean Meat, Vegetarian Entrees, Side Salad/Dressings, Side Vegetables, and Desserts.
Healthy Quick Meals
Here you will find quick meals that are easy to make, quick to prepare, delicious and healthy. The main dishes presented take about 17 minutes or less (not including the cooking time).
Busy Cooks
“Healthy in a hurry” does not only contain lots of recipes (ready in 30 minutes or less, or preparation time max. 20 minutes). Also gives you valuable information about healthy nutrition from a professional point of view. Nutritional value was taken into account when choosing these recipes.
Fitness Magazine
This is a fitness based website that also deals with the topics of healthy nutrition and diet. The following recipe categories are available: Healthy & quick breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes, 60-second meals, Super-easy one-pot recipes, 12 simple soup recipes, Healthy snacks.
Recipe Search
Recipe Puppy
An ingredient based recipe search engine that finds recipes that use ingredients you already have. It includes recipes from nine different recipe websites. You also have the option of running a search for a specific keyword, like “quick and easy recipes” or “healthy quick recipes”.
Good Housekeeping
Very detailed search options: besides Main Ingredients, Special Diets and Courses also Calorie Count, Skill Level, Party Type, Lifestyle and more.
BBC Food
Besides searching by up to three ingredients or recipe title, you can search for recipes from various television programs and a long list of famous chefs. You can limit your search to healthy, quick and/ or vegetarian recipes. When using the Recipe Quick Links on the right side of the page, you can refine your search step by step, running a very specific search.
iVillage’s Recipe Finder
Allows you to search the site’s recipes by keyword, category, level of difficulty and preparation & cooking time. You can limit the search to vegetarian recipes by checking the vegetarian check box at the bottom.
Recipe Finder
Allows you advanced recipe search options to search their site’s archive: additionally to your keyword you can determine the recipe source, cuisine type and special options.
Mealsmatter
This advanced search has nice options in the categories of Nutrient Content and Special Features.
Meal Planning
Meal Maker
Insert up to four ingredients you find in your cupboard and let Recipe Finder’s Meal Maker find a matching recipe for you!
Healthy Shopping List
This online tool of Mealsmatter allows you not only to create a shopping list, but also to have the ingredients of recipes you choose from its database automatically added to your shopping list, or to create different shopping lists for different occasions and save them for repeated use. A free registration for Mealsmatter is required to use the Healthy Shopping List.
Meal Planner
Another Mealsmatter tool that allows you to add your own recipes or recipes from their database to your mealplanner. You can plan a whole days menu including snacks and eating out. Meals can easily be shifted from one day to another or set to be repeated in specific intervals. A free registration for Mealsmatter is required to use the Meal Planner.
Pantry Staples List
The Pantry List makes it easy to always keep stock of healthy foods that you can use to quickly prepare healthy meals, even if you have not planned. You can edit the preset pantry list and easily add items to your online shopping list. A free registration for Mealsmatter is required to use the Pantry Staples List.
Menu Planning Charts
At the bottom of the article you can download various forms of meal planning charts, with or without meal ideas.
Meal Planning Articles
Articles on Mealsmatter: Helping even busy people to plan ahead and thus prepare healthy meals in less time.
Menu Planning - Save Time In The Kitchen: A great article giving plenty of helpful tips how to approach menu planning.
Meal Planning: A guide to meal planning according to healthy nutrition.
Converters
Metric Converter
A great tool for all who get recipes from countries using different metric systems. You can easily convert weight, length or temperature.
Weights And Measures Converter
Besides weight and temperature, this BBC tool also converts volumes for you.
Other Resources
Cook’s Glossary
For help around the kitchen, use Recipe Finder’s handy cook's glossary — there's hundreds of terms, with everything from Almonds to Zucchini!
Rouxbe Cooking School
Professional cooking training in the comfort of your own home: an online cooking school with professional cooking training, including instructional video recipes, text recipes, tip and technique videos and community forums
Dinner Made Simple
Besides great tips around cooking, the site offers meal planning and cooking services. You can have a meal plan set up according to your dietary preferences and special needs and even have the food cooked and delivered. Service is situated in Austin, Texas.
Cooking Social Network, EXchange Your Culinary Experience
If You love wine, Gourmet Food, Enjoy Restaurants Or just like to Cook? Just come and Make part of the Ultimate Culinary Network and Exchange Your Passion with Other Food Maniacs!!!
Wareseeker
Various products evolving around quick recipes and healthy eating, including recipes for cat and dog food. Some can be downloaded for free, others need to be purchased. One freeware sounds very interesting: Healthy recipes 1.0 is a healthy recipes toolbar for firefox. It includes links to other cooking sites and links to sites that provide information on different kinds of cooking. Additionally, there are many articles about healthy recipes.
