About a week ago, we added a new feature to automatically create grocery lists for recipes people enter in Say Mmm, an we are glad that a lot of people are enjoying how this works. Thanks again to everyone that sent us a message with feedback.
We are also happy to announce that you can now just enter a link to any online recipe and have a grocery list created for that recipe. There are a few other tricks we had to incorporate to make this work since there is a good amount of variety in how recipes are formatted and presented on different websites, plus there are a lot of other things on web pages that can make it a little tricky to find the right area with the ingredients.
We think its working pretty well now, though there are a few sites where it may not work or recipes that may need adjusting. In these cases you can edit the items individually, and we added an “Edit list” link where you can copy and paste just the ingredients for cases when it doesn’t find them correctly. So even in the tricky cases its still fairly easy to add a shopping list and we are continuing to make improvements.
Here is an example of how the grocery list looks when created from a link:
And here is the online recipe from Taste of Home:
