The shop you do every week
Big Shop keeps your recipes together, and turns the ones you’ve chosen this week into a single shopping list — ingredients added up across every dish and sorted by aisle. One decision on Sunday, one trip, nothing bought twice.
Free. No card, no app to install — it works on the phone that’s already in your hand at the shop.
Your shopping list
Already bought
Two recipes, one list. The tins of tomatoes both of them wanted have already been added together — and ticked off in the trolley.
Deciding is the part that actually takes the time. Everything you’ve liked before is in one place, tagged and searchable, so choosing five meals for the week is five ticks — not half an hour of “I don’t mind, what do you fancy?” on a Sunday night.
Three jars of cumin. A second bag of rice. The mid-week top-up trip that somehow costs forty quid. Buying for the whole week in one go, off a list that has already added everything up, is the cheap way to shop — this is the thing that makes actually doing it possible.
Paste a link from any recipe site, photograph a page of a cookbook, or type it out. It’s read for you and comes back as ingredients, method and tags — ready to cook from, and ready to shop from.
Tick the meals you want this week. Filter by Vegetarian or Batch Cook when nothing comes to mind, or ask Dave to suggest from what you already own.
Every ingredient across every chosen recipe, added up into one line each and sorted into the order you walk the aisles. Tick things off as they go in the trolley — and whoever else is shopping sees them go.
Three ways in
Any recipe site. The page is read for you and comes back as name, ingredients, method and tags — with American cups and ounces turned into grams on the way in.
Point your phone at a cookbook or a handwritten card. Handled in the background while you carry on.
Type it, or paste the ingredient list in one lump and let it be split into proper rows.
Invite whoever you shop with by email. Same recipes, same list, same ticked boxes — updating in both your pockets while you’re stood in different aisles.
Three recipes wanting onions is one line saying how many onions. Where two amounts genuinely can’t be added — 50 g and 2 tbsp of flour — you get one line carrying both, not two lines to hunt for.
A tin of chopped tomatoes is 400 g, a clove is 5 g, a potato is about 180 g. So the list says “2 tins”, which is a thing you can pick up, with the raw total kept alongside.
Bin bags, milk, the birthday card. Add extras straight to the list and they sit alongside everything the recipes asked for.
Everything you’ve saved in one place, searchable by name and filterable by tag — so the one you can only half remember is still findable.
Dave only knows your kitchen — your recipes, what you cooked recently, what you keep going back to. Ask what to cook this week and it’ll build the list for you.
There’s no growth team here, and no roadmap of things nobody asked for. It does recipes, and the list that falls out of them, and it does those properly. It isn’t going to become your calendar, your macros tracker or your fridge.
How much a tin holds, what a potato weighs, which aisle a thing lives in — that’s one shared reference rather than something every kitchen re-enters. Worked out once, and every list after it is that bit more accurate.
Free. One recipe is enough to make a list.