Save the recipes you already love, choose what you're cooking this week, set your servings, and get one clear shopping list you can use wherever you shop.Keep the recipe convenience, without the box cost.
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“We were spending £60 a week on Gousto on top of our normal shop. When we cancelled and started buying those same ingredients at the supermarket, our weekly shop went up a little — but the overall cost came right down. We saved just over £2,000 in the first year.”
Same meals, less money
The problem
Recipe boxes like Gousto and HelloFresh are great for discovering new meals. But at £30 to £80 a week — on top of your regular shop — the cost adds up fast. And after a few months, most people are just reordering the same favourites anyway. At that point, you're paying a subscription for recipes you already know.
What Basket List does
You import or add your recipes and their ingredients. Pick the meals you want to cook, set how many you're feeding, and Basket List works out the quantities and gives you one shopping list. Take it to Aldi, Tesco, wherever suits you. Same meals, no subscription, and the ingredients cost a fraction of the box price.
Recipe URL importer
Found dinner on Gousto, BBC Good Food, a blog, or anywhere else public? Drop in the URL and Basket List prepares the recipe for you, ingredients and all. No copying line by line before you can build a shopping list.
Basket List pulls out the recipe name, cooking time, servings, and ingredients for you.
Check the imported ingredients first, then save it to your cookbook when it looks right.
Imported recipes work like everything else: choose servings and generate one combined shop.
Basket List was built for people who love recipe box meals but not the price tag. Here's what the switch looks like.
Buy the same ingredients at the supermarket instead. Your weekly shop goes up a little, but nothing close to the subscription.
Once your recipes are in, just pick meals, set servings, and the list is done. Importing URLs keeps first-time setup much lighter.
Sorted by type so you can find things quickly. New ingredients are added regularly based on what people are cooking.
How it works
Import the recipes you already cook, check the details, then reuse them whenever you plan a shop. After setup, putting together a weekly list takes about 30 seconds.
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Import your recipesPaste a public recipe URL and Basket List prepares the name, cooking time, servings, and ingredients. Manual entry is still there for family favourites.
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Check the previewReview the imported ingredients before saving. You stay in control, but you don't have to copy everything across line by line.
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Pick what you're cookingTap the meals you want this week. Cooking for two on Tuesday and six on Saturday? Set each one separately.
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Name your listCall it whatever makes sense — 'This week', 'BBQ Saturday', 'Batch cook'. Helps when you've got a few on the go.
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Get your shopping listWe combine duplicate ingredients across recipes and work out the quantities. Two recipes with onions? One line, right amount.
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Tick things off as you goIf someone else is shopping with you, they see the same list updating live. Handy for splitting the shop in half.
Add it to your phone
Basket List works as a progressive web app, so you can add it to iPhone or Android and launch it like a normal app when you're planning meals or walking around the supermarket.
No app store needed. It takes about a minute.
Who it's for
Some people plan a full week on Sunday. Others wing it day by day. Either way, the annoying bit is the same: writing out what you need to buy. That's the bit we handle.
Households
One person plans, another shops, everyone eats. Keep it all in one place.
Works well when different people do the planning, cooking, and shopping.
Batch cooking
Cook once, portion it out, and stop rebuilding the same prep list.
Good for work lunches, freezer meals, and regular Sunday batch cooks.
Weekly planning
Choose this week's dinners, get one list, and do the shop without a spreadsheet.
Good for households deciding what to cook before the weekly shop.
Pricing
14-day free trial, no card needed. Both plans include everything — unlimited recipes, unlimited lists, and sharing with your whole household. The only difference is monthly vs annual billing.
Save £11/year vs monthly
Billed monthly
One plan covers your whole cookbook. Invite your partner, housemates, kids — everyone gets full access at no extra cost.
Add a few recipes, pick your meals for the week, and see what your shopping list looks like. The trial is free and you don't need a card.
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