According to Shop Smart magazine, the following websites are the best ones for helping you make the most of what you buy, have the best recipe searches for using what you already have on hand, personal recipe storage, planning menus that offer neat ways to make leftovers into completely different dishes and substitution charts.
www.Allrecipes.com
Best for: How-to videos
They have 40,000+ user-rated recipes and video cooking tutorials. You can even search by ingredient. Downside: HUGE = a bit confusing to navigate.
www.Eatingwell.com
Best for: Healthful cooking on the cheap
A great site if you are attempting to save money and eat well, too. They particularly like the "priced" recipe collections. They makeover recipes to show you how to use less fat and low-calorie ingredients. There is even a menu-planning tool for creating daily or weekly plans with the site's recipes or your own. The menus also display a shopping list and printable coupons for healthy foods.
www.Epicurious.com
Best for: Recycling leftovers
Not only does this site showcase more than 25,000 recipes, it also has free recipe storage, skill building videos and a wireless recipe download feature for your smart phone. This site features a weeknight menu titled "Dinner Rush," which can be a big money saver. It features weekly meals with a few seasonal main ingredients and then guides you through seamlessly recycling the leftovers into new dishes.
www.Recipecentral.com (lancaster.unl.edu/food/recipe.shtml)
Best for: Money-saving food-storage tips
This site is run by the cooperative extension food experts at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. It is chockful of recipes and money-saving tips such as clever ingredient-substitutions.
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