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How to use it

Every feature of Daily Recipe Picks in one place, with examples — whether you are just starting out or only curious about one particular feature. (Magyarul)

The site works without registration: open it and today’s suggestions are already there. Whatever you set up (family members, food sensitivities, favourites, weekly menu) stays in your own browser only. This guide goes through the features in order — you do not have to read it all at once; use the contents list to jump to any section.

Contents
  1. Where do I start?
  2. Who am I cooking for? — family members, food sensitivities
  3. Daily picks
  4. “What’s in my kitchen?” — search by ingredients
  5. Weekly menu
  6. Shopping list and sharing
  7. Seasonal calendar and holiday menus
  8. Kitchen Play — games, challenges, badges
  9. Favourites and Nearby shops
  10. Basics for beginners, unit converter, tips
  11. Submitting a recipe
  12. On your phone, offline, your data

Please note that the recipes themselves are written in Hungarian and shown here in English translation; the shareable recipe pages and the legal pages (privacy notice, legal notice) are in Hungarian only.

1. Where do I start?

At the top of the home page, in the collapsible bar under the header, one sentence sums up what the site is for. Below it, the menu on the left (on a phone, the “☰ Menu” button) gives you access to every feature. You can quickly find a particular recipe with the “Search recipes…” box in the header, and browse the full list on the Recipes page. Most settings and lists are stored in your own browser — on another device or browser you start from scratch, but you can move them over with the “Save my settings to a file” button (in the “Who am I cooking for?” panel).

Example — your first 2 minutes:
  1. Open the Daily picks tab — you immediately see a breakfast, a lunch and a dinner.
  2. If you do not like one of them, press the “Another idea from this cuisine” button at the bottom of the card until you find a suitable one.
  3. If you have a food sensitivity or several people eat with you, fill in the “Who am I cooking for?” panel (see below) — from then on the suggestions take it into account.

2. Who am I cooking for? — family members, food sensitivities

The collapsible “Who am I cooking for?” panel is always available above the Daily picks and the Weekly menu. Here you can add family members (name, age, weight, sex, whether you want a high-protein diet, daily calorie target) and mark food sensitivities (for example gluten, dairy). You can choose one person or several at the same time — the suggestions are filtered accordingly. Below it, in the “How much time do you have to cook today?” bar, you can set how much time you have today (for example 30 minutes at most) and whether breakfast or dinner has to be a cooked dish.

Example: If someone in the family does not eat gluten, add them as a profile in the “Who am I cooking for?” panel, tick the “gluten” sensitivity and select them as active among the chips. From then on the suggestions, the search and the weekly menu avoid recipes containing gluten (the marking is an estimate based on the words in the ingredient list — in the case of a serious allergy, always check the recipe yourself as well).

3. Daily picks

The Daily picks tab gives you a breakfast, a lunch and a dinner every day, adjusted to your settings. Every recipe card has: the ingredients (which you can tick, see the shopping list below), the method step by step (tap to tick off), a servings adjuster, “♡ Save” to add it to your favourites, “Add to compare” (recipes side by side), “Share”, “Recipe page” (the recipe’s own shareable page), “Cooking mode” (larger text, a timer for each step, the screen stays awake) and the “I’m cooking this today” button. At the bottom of the card you can also keep your own log: star rating, “Would you cook it again?”, a note and a memory photo — these are stored only on your device. You will find sweets on the Light treats tab, in a light and a classic selection.

Example — I would like another idea: Do not feel like pasta for lunch today? The “Another idea from this cuisine” button at the bottom of the card gives you a new suggestion for the same meal, from the same cuisine, with the same filters.
Example — “I’m cooking this today”: If you are cooking a recipe today that is not in your weekly menu, press “I’m cooking this today” on the card. Its ingredients are added to the Shopping list, and it also counts towards the Seasonal bingo and your Kitchen Play points.

On the “What’s in my kitchen?” tab, type, separated by commas, what you have at home (for example “chicken, sour cream, potatoes”), or even the name of a dish, and we show what you can cook from it across all nineteen cuisines. You can also type what you do not want: “no mushrooms” or “-mushrooms”. With the “📷 Photo of the fridge” button you can take (or upload) a photo — the recognition runs in your own browser, the picture is not uploaded anywhere. The chips (Beginner-friendly, Grill-friendly, Lunchbox-friendly, Freezable and so on) and the “Quick ideas” block (time, equipment, diet, leftovers) narrow down the results further. Quick dishes also have their own collection: Quick and easy recipes.

Example: Do you have some cooked rice and chicken left from yesterday’s dinner? On the “What’s in my kitchen?” tab, open “Quick ideas” → the leftovers row, click the “Leftover chicken” and “Leftover cooked rice” chips — you immediately get a list of recipes that start from these.

5. Weekly menu

The Weekly menu gives you breakfast, lunch and dinner for 7 days ahead, with an overview table at the top of the week. In the settings (collapsible panel) you can choose which cuisines it should suggest from, whether the week has a theme (for example a pulse week or a fish week — the description in the settings tells you what the theme requires), how many days you cook ahead at a time (batch cooking, at most 4 days) and for how many people. For each day you can also change the type of day or the cuisine of a meal separately. With the “Add to calendar” button the week’s meals go into the calendar of your phone or computer as an .ics file, with a reminder; the “Print” button prints the menu together with its shopping list.

Example — I cook ahead for the week: In the Weekly menu settings, under “How many days do you cook ahead?”, choose 3 or 4 days and enter how many of you eat. In the weekly grid a main meal then appears for several days (marked as leftovers), and the shopping list calculates the matching quantity.

6. Shopping list and sharing

On the Shopping list tab all the ingredients of the weekly menu appear in a single list, arranged by shop section (fruit and vegetables, meat and fish, dairy and so on), with identical items added together and rounded to a quantity that is convenient to buy. With the “I have at home” chips (salt, pepper, oil, flour and so on) you can filter out what you certainly do not need to buy. While shopping you can tick off items — this stays on your own device only.

New: ingredients from a single recipe, independent of the weekly menu. In the “Ingredients” list of any recipe, tick what you need, then press the “Checked items to the shopping list” button below it. The selected items — even if you have not put the recipe in the weekly menu — go onto the Shopping list, into the same list, categorised in the same way. A note on the tab shows how many items you added by hand, and a “Delete” button lets you remove them at any time.
  1. Open a recipe (for example in the Daily picks) from which you only need to buy a few ingredients.
  2. Tick the missing ingredients in the list.
  3. Press the “Checked items to the shopping list” button — you get a confirmation of how many items were added.
  4. Open the Shopping list tab: the selected items are waiting there, together with those coming from the weekly menu.
Sharing, if you need the list in the shop or on the road. On the Shopping list tab there are five options:

7. Seasonal calendar and holiday menus

On the Seasonal calendar tab, choose a month and tap a seasonal ingredient (a vegetable or a fruit) — we show the recipes that go with it. An ingredient in season is usually cheaper, fresher and tastier (the seasons are Hungarian and indicative, and may shift from year to year). Below it, the Holiday menus give ready-made multi-course menus for the holidays of the year, each with its own shopping list — at the top of the Daily picks we automatically point them out two weeks before the holiday.

8. Kitchen Play — games, challenges, badges

The Kitchen Play tab keeps an eye on the “I’m cooking this today” button: whatever you cook earns points, a tick or a badge here. It has five sub-tabs: Daily (a small task for the day or a tips quiz), Challenges (for example the weekly challenge and the Seasonal bingo — the month’s nine seasonal ingredients, which are ticked off automatically from the “I’m cooking this today” button), Games (for example “Spin it!”, when you cannot decide), Collection (the kitchen passport — nineteen cuisines, each with its own stamp page; and your own recipe diary with stars and notes) and Calendar (the weekly streak, how many times in a row you have cooked). All results are stored on your own device only.

Example: If you cannot decide what to have for dinner, open the Kitchen Play → Games sub-tab and press “Spin it!” — it picks a recipe at random according to your settings.

9. Favourites and Nearby shops

The My favourites tab holds the recipes you have saved with the “♡ Save” button at the bottom of a card — they stay in your browser only, and with the “Share” button you can send any of them to someone else. On the Nearby shops tab, with the “📍 Share my location” button (or by typing an address or postcode) we look for shops near you and, where there is one, link their current offers leaflet — we cannot show prices or special offers directly.

10. Basics for beginners, unit converter, tips

The Basics for beginners tab has short, practical advice (for example how many minutes to boil an egg, when meat is done, what “sweated until translucent” onion means), a unit converter (dl, tablespoon, cup, °C/°F, and a table showing, for example, roughly how many grams 1 tablespoon of flour is) and an oven temperature table (°C, gas mark, °F). The Household tips tab holds a longer list of household, shopping and kitchen tricks, arranged by topic.

11. Submitting a recipe

If you have a good recipe that you would like to see among the suggestions, there is a form to fill in on the Submit a recipe tab. After you fill it in, the “Preview” shows the finished text, which you can still correct, and the “Send by e-mail” button opens your mail program with the finished message — you only have to send it. We check submitted recipes by hand before they go up, which can take a few days.

12. On your phone, offline, your data

The site is comfortable to use on a phone, it can be added to the home screen, and pages you have opened once load without an internet connection too (offline mode). There is no registration, and the site is free, with no ads for now. Whatever you set up — family members, favourites, weekly menu, shopping-list ticks, your own recipe log and your Főzőcske results — is stored only on your own device, in your browser, and does not reach us; with the “Save my settings to a file” button of the “Who am I cooking for?” panel you can save it to a file and restore it on another device with the “Restore from a file” button. Details: Privacy notice (in Hungarian).

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