Smart shopping list
Choose the dishes you want to cook and how many portions you need. Carte combines their ingredients into one shopping list, so you can spend less time copying amounts from one recipe to the next.
Tonight's order
From the carte
Your shopping list
Olive oil, Salt, Pepper stay off the list — configured staples.
A meal-planning app with a grocery list connects the meals you choose to the ingredients you need. In Carte, you choose dishes and portions first. Carte brings the required ingredients into one list, keeps configured staples off it, and can account for supported cooked components already on hand.
From the standing menu
Most grocery lists begin with an empty field. Carte begins with dinner. On the standing menu — the carte — you choose the dishes that sound good, such as lasagne, roast chicken, and a green salad, then add them to an order.
The shopping list is a consequence of those meals, not a separate task you rebuild every week. Browse the recipes you actually cook, keep them on the menu, and let the list follow.
Before the math
Cooking lasagne for six instead of four? Set the portions before you shop, and the ingredient amounts follow. You can see the same idea in the recipe scaler.
Carte multiplies those per-portion amounts by the portions on the order. Pasta sheets, tomatoes, and parmesan all move with the new count, so you are not doing the same recipe math in the aisle. The recipe scaler shows how those amounts move with the portion count.
The strongest proof
Lasagne and the green salad both need tomatoes. Carte does not leave that as two errands. It sums matching ingredients into one useful line, while lines that belong to only one dish stay themselves.
When ingredients match and their units can be combined, Carte adds the amounts together. Tomatoes needed by two dishes become one line on the list. Staples you have marked as always on hand stay off it.
What Carte can account for
Carte can keep configured staples off the shopping list. New kitchens start with staples such as salt, pepper, olive oil, flour, sugar, butter, and water — always on hand, never added automatically. You can edit that list.
Carte can also account for supported cooked components already in the larder. If ragù is ready, a later lasagne does not ask you to shop the sauce again — make the sauce once, and a future dish can use it. The fuller story lives on Use It Up.
Carte does not maintain a complete inventory of every raw ingredient in the kitchen. The list is honest about what it knows — staples you configured, and cooked components it can actually reuse.
On the trip
Automatic does not mean locked. Review the list, add another dish from the menu if dinner changes, and tap a line to cross it off as you shop. Crossing off is local to the device in your hand.
People in the same Shared Kitchen work from the same menu and order, so they see the same consolidated list. Sharing the household plan is the point; a standalone shared-list product is a different job.
After the shop
The list is meant to be used on the trip. When the shopping is finished, stock the pantry in Carte. The dishes you bought move into a ready-to-cook state, so the cooking view reflects the meals you actually brought home.
That is the handoff this page can stand behind: from one consolidated list, back into the kitchen you intended to cook in. A pass-through to another grocery service is not shown here.
How to judge the job
If you are comparing apps, these are the jobs that matter — not a longer feature checklist.
Questions
Yes. Carte builds one consolidated grocery list from the dishes and portions you select on your standing menu, so the list reflects the meals you actually plan to cook rather than a blank template.
Yes. When several selected dishes need the same ingredient, Carte sums those needs into one shopping line instead of leaving the same item scattered across recipes.
Yes. Each recipe stores amounts per single portion. You set the portions you want first, and Carte multiplies those amounts so you are not repeating the same recipe math by hand.
People in the same Shared Kitchen work from the same menu and order, so they see the same consolidated list. Crossing an item off is local to the device you are shopping with.
Carte is not a complete inventory of every raw ingredient in your kitchen. Configured staples stay off the list, and supported cooked components already in the larder — such as a ragù you made earlier — can cover part of a later dish.
The list is meant to be used while you shop. Afterward you stock the pantry in Carte so cooking matches what you brought home. A handoff into another grocery service is not a verified part of this page.
Keep the dishes you love on your menu, choose the portions that sound right, and shop from one consolidated list. Then see how the rest of the loop works.
