A smarter, cheaper recipe box alternative. Save your favourite recipes, generate shopping lists instantly, and cut your weekly food bill while shopping wherever offers the best value.
Keep the convenience of planned meals without being locked into a weekly box delivery. Save your go-to recipes once, build a clear list quickly, and shop where value works best for your household.
Hello Basket List
The Problem
Recipe box subscriptions such as Gousto, HelloFresh and Mindful Chef are a great way to save time on meal planning and food shopping but they come at a cost and often make it difficult to source the individual ingredients independently. Over time, that convenience premium can make everyday meals significantly more expensive than they need to be.
Our Solution
Basket List is the easiest way to shop for the ingredients you need for your recipes. Got a new favourite recipe? Add it to Basket List and we will help you create a smart shopping list that you can take to the shop. You keep your familiar weekly routine while gaining more control over ingredient choices, portions, and spend.
A word from the creator
We used to spend around £60 a week on Gousto — that's over £3000 a year. By switching to Basket List and buying the ingredients ourselves for our favourite recipe cards, we've probably saved close to £2000. The meals didn't change, just the cost. Basket List started as a way to spend less on food, and it's now how we shop every week.
Basket List is built to make day-to-day meal planning and shopping simpler. These numbers reflect real usage patterns from households using the app to stay organised and reduce friction in weekly food shopping.
Everything you need to shop like a pro
We focus purely on making it easy to shop for your favourite recipes by giving you a platform to store recipes, select meals and choose servings, create and share your shopping lists. Every step is designed to reduce manual admin so you can spend less time planning and more time cooking meals you already know your household enjoys.
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Add a new recipeWhether it is a family classic or a new creation, you will be able to save and access it anytime, add cooking times and number of servings.
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Add your recipe ingredientsWe have a growing database of ingredients which means you should be able find and add all of your favourite recipe ingredients easily
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Select your mealsPick a single meal or a whole week's worth of dinners and Basket List will generate a shopping list with all the ingredients you need.
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Give your shopping list a namePersonalise your shopping list with a name. Whether it's 'Weekly Shop' or 'Saturday's Dinner Party', staying organised has never been easier.
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Get your smart shopping listOur app groups ingredients from your recipes into a smart list, matching items are grouped together, and quantities are all calculated automatically.
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Check off items as you shopYour shopping list updates in real time, keeping everyone on the same page and eliminating the need to double-check or follow up whilst shopping.
Three practical ways people use Basket List every week
Whether you are planning for a household, batch cooking for the week, or keeping your regular meal rotation organised, Basket List helps you save recipes and shop with less friction.
Shared household planning
Keep meals, recipes, and the weekly shop aligned for everyone.
Best for households where different people plan, cook, or shop.
Batch cooking and prep
Repeat your prep routine without rebuilding the same list every week.
Best for Sunday prep, work lunches, and repeatable weekly rotations.
Plan the week faster
Turn your regular meal rotation into a simpler weekly planning workflow.
Best for people who like planning dinners ahead and reusing what works.
Everything you need to shop for your favourite meals
Select your recipes
Choosing recipes for a new list is super easy, scroll or search, it will only take you a few seconds to create a new list.
Live list updates
Your shopping list will update in real time which makes shared shopping lists super powerful for optimising time spent food shopping.
Your recipes at a glance
Get an overview of your recipe, see the number of ingredients and link to the original source for recipe instructions.
Choose your servings
Change the number of servings and we’ll automatically scale ingredients across your entire shopping list.
Choose the plan that works for you
Start with a 14-day free trial. No credit card required. Upgrade anytime to unlock unlimited recipes and shopping lists. All plans are built for practical weekly use, whether you are planning meals for yourself, with a partner, or for a family cookbook you manage together.
Billed monthly
Save £11/year (31% vs monthly)
All plans are per cookbook and include access for everyone you share with.