Apps
That I Use
Bobby Approved
Barcode Scanner
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Bobby Approved is a free food and non-food scanner app that instantly shows if a product is good for your health or not. Not only does the app list the ingredients, but it highlights the non-clean ingredients and indicates why those ingredients are bad for your health. Just point your camera, scan the barcode, and find out if that item is made with clean ingredients, or if you should put it back.
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Bobby Parish publishes short videos online where he shows you products with unhealthy ingredients and then he recommends alternatives for that product which are healthy.
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I religiously use this app to identify food and non-food items that are Bobby-approved so I can publish them on this web page.
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Cost: Free
Think Dirty
Beauty, Cosmetics, Personal Care, Household Products
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A barcode scanner for 2.7 million+ non-food products: Beauty, cosmetics, personal care, household, etc. Use their barcode scanner to get instant results. They conduct in-depth research into companies and their products. They rate each product on a scale of 1-10:
​ 0 - 3: Product does not contain any ingredients which have a documented potential negative health impact.
​ 4 - 7: Product's ingredients have potential moderate negative long-term health effects.
​ 8 - 10: Product's ingredients have potential serious negative long-term health effects.
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​Lily Tse, founder, also has a web site where you can purchase trusted products from trusted brands. Her web site also lists verified brands that have been thoroughly vetted.
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I religiously use this app to identify approved products that are published on this web page along with their rating of 0-10.
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Cost: $29.99 yearly
Recipe Keeper
All your recipes in one place
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Import Recipes from Websites
Most convenient way to download recipes effortlessly. Go to the web page where the recipe is found, copy the URL and paste it into the app. The app will scan that web page and automatically download the picture of the food dish, the ingredients, cooking instructions, and nutritional facts.
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Manually Enter Recipes
Scan recipes using your phone's camera or from your existing photos and PDF files. OCR technology automatically converts images to text. Copy and paste recipes from your existing documents or apps. Snap a photo of a recipe from a book or magazine.
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Shopping List
Add recipe ingredients to your shopping list with a single tap.
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Meal Planner
Weekly and monthly meal planner to help you keep on top of things. Take the stress out of deciding what to cook every night.
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Create Beautiful Cookbooks
Create cookbooks of your recipes for printing or sharing as a PDF file. Customizable recipe layouts with your choice of fonts, colors, page sizes and more. Design your own cover page, add chapters, custom text pages, table of contents and page numbers.
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Cost: Free Version only allows you to store 10 recipes
Cost: $19.99 yearly for unlimited access and recipes