Top 5 Apps to Manage Grocery Shopping & Make Meal Planning Easy

As a follow-up to my prior post on How to Create a Meal Planning Strategy, I wanted to share my top 5 grocery shopping apps. All will help you manage your time more effectively and ensure you are in a position to get your family's meals on the table!

1. Shopper Pro (Free with paid upgradeavailable):  Shopper organizes your grocery shopping list, suggests great recipes and helps you budget with grocery coupons and store flyers.  Features include:  Simple, quick list for planning and shopping; List synching with family and friends; Store your own recipes and find recipes from friends and the web; Grocery coupons, supermarket flyers and daily deals from top brands and retailers; Web portal and cross-device list planning; Multiple Lists/Multiple Stores; Shopping templates for recipes, home projects, healthy food, favorites and repeat shopping.
2. Grocery Pal (Free):  This app points you toward weekly sales at your local supermarkets and discount stores, and even matches your shopping list items against products online with lower prices + FREE shipping!  Browse weekly savings at local supermarkets and chain stores; Add sale items to shopping list and track them easily; Compare prices across multiple stores; Redeem coupons at stores with a finger tap.
3. PushPins (Free):  Pushpins helps you build & share your grocery list, navigate the grocery store, save with digital coupons & weekly specials, and keep track of your spending. Features include:  Create grocery lists by searching their extensive database; Sync your lists with family & friends and across all your devices; Automatic sorting of your list items by aisle.  Arrange the aisles to match your local store; Clip digital coupons to your store loyalty card to save hundreds of dollars on your groceries; View weekly specials and add them to your list. 
4. Apples2Oranges (Free): Nutritional and price comparison and conversion. Apples2Oranges lets you compare two prices, even when the item sizes are different. Apples2Oranges compares calories, sodium, sugar and anything else on the nutritional info label, no matter how different the listed serving sizes are.  
5. KeyRing (Free): Never carry plastic or paper loyalty, membership, library cards or coupons again! Scan and save all of your loyalty cards in your phone.  Join new loyalty programs in seconds.  Receive exclusive coupons from top retailers. Digitally save grocery coupons to your loyalty card.

Ellen Miano is Professional Organizer in Foxboro MA. For more information see her website at http://www.OrganizingMA.com or contact her directly at 508.641.0521.