Everything You Need to Plan Better Meals
From weekly planning to smart shopping lists to photo recipe import with OCR. Plated Up has all the tools to help busy households eat well and waste less.

Plan Your Week in Minutes
Visual weekly calendar with drag-and-drop. Organise your recipe library. Plan around your schedule.
Weekly Calendar View
Visual drag-and-drop meal planner. See your whole week at a glance.
Recipe Tooltips
Hover over meals to see prep time, servings, and quick details without clicking.
Quick Actions
Add recipes to meal planner or shopping list directly from recipe cards.
Recipe Library
Store unlimited recipes. Tag, search, and organise your collection.
Meal Prep Planning
Filter recipes by prep time, cooking time, and difficulty level.
Smart Tagging
Tag recipes by cuisine, diet type, season, or custom categories.
Shop Smarter, Save Time
Auto-generated lists organised by supermarket aisle. Track your budget. Shop on mobile.
Auto Shopping Lists
Ingredients automatically combine and organise by supermarket aisle.
Shopping Indicators
Recipe cards show green checkmarks when ingredients are already in your list.
Quick Add from Recipes
Add all recipe ingredients to shopping list with one click from any recipe.
Mobile Shopping
Access your list on your phone. Tick off items as you shop.
Budget Tracking
Add prices to ingredients. Track weekly costs and stay on budget.
Shared Lists
Family members can view and update the shopping list in real-time.
Build Your Recipe Collection
Import from websites, upload photos of cookbook recipes with free OCR, or add manually. Duplicate detection keeps your collection organized.
URL Import
Import from 100+ UK sites like BBC Good Food with one click.
Photo Import (OCR)
Upload photos of recipes from cookbooks. Free text extraction with Tesseract.js.
Duplicate Detection
Automatically prevents duplicate recipes with smart name matching.
Manual Entry
Add your own family recipes with photos, notes, and adjustments.
Powerful Search
Find recipes by name, ingredient, tag, or dietary requirement.
Smart Suggestions
Get recipe ideas based on what you have and what's in season.
Plan Together as a Household
Share meal plans with family. Coordinate shopping. Stay on the same page.
Household Sharing
Invite family members to view and edit meal plans together.
Activity Notifications
Get notified when someone updates the plan or shopping list.
Usage Insights
See your most cooked recipes, favourite cuisines, and shopping trends.
UK-Specific
British measurements, spelling, and supermarket organisation.
Engage with the Community and Track Your Progress
Level up your cooking journey. Earn badges, build streaks, and connect with other home cooks.
Reputation & Levels
Earn points for sharing recipes, getting likes, and helping others. Level up from Home Cook to Master Chef.
Achievement Badges
Unlock 17 badges across bronze, silver, and gold tiers for milestones like first recipe, popular plates, and more.
Activity Streaks
Build daily streaks by staying active. Track your current and longest streaks.
Challenges
Join seasonal challenges to earn bonus points and exclusive badges.
Leaderboard
See how you rank against other community members by reputation points.
Follow System
Follow other cooks to see their recipes and build your community.
Why Choose Plated Up?
Without Plated Up
- ✗Stressful "what's for dinner?" moments every day
- ✗Multiple trips to the shop for forgotten items
- ✗Food waste from unused ingredients
- ✗Unorganised shopping lists on scraps of paper
- ✗Recipes scattered across websites and cookbooks
- ✗Manually typing out recipes from physical cookbooks
With Plated Up
- ✓Always know what's for dinner, planned in advance
- ✓One organised shop per week with everything you need
- ✓Buy only what you need, waste less food
- ✓Smart shopping lists organised by supermarket aisle
- ✓All your recipes in one organised, searchable library
- ✓Upload cookbook photos and extract text instantly with free OCR
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