Tired of making the same old things for dinner? Have plenty of food that’s going bad in your fridge or freezer? Now there are simple new ways to make use of what you have and turn it into something you just might want to eat.
New Web sites have popped up all over the Internet using a database of recipes that will work with almost any food combination. For example, on
supercook.com, you can plug in the food you have in your pantry or refrigerator and it will search other Web sites to come up with a list of recipes that include the food you already have.
In some cases, the recipes will be perfect matches. In others, it will tell you what ingredients are still needed.
But, at a time when lots of people are looking to save money, or at least not waste it, these types of Web sites may come in very handy.
The average American throws away 14 percent of the groceries they buy at the store, and these Web sites can help prevent some of that waste.
Other sites are,
recipematcher.com,
leftoverwizard.com, and
mealopedia.com.
Not only will these sites help you create a recipe from ingredients you have on hand, most also give you an option to eliminate certain foods from all recipes. For example, if someone has an allergy to peanuts in your household, you can add that to the Web site and it will delete any recipe that might contain peanuts or peanut products.
And iPhone users, an app from Whole Foods does the trick as well.
