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" A perfect holiday meal starts with great organization. And sometimes, planning a menu, finding recipes, and shopping can be the hardest parts of the feast. ZipList, an online service that lets you search for recipes, develop shopping lists, and even share menus with guests is now available as an app for iPhone and Android, and it might just be your kitchen lifeline this holiday season. ZipList contains a massive recipe database with over 400,000 recipes. And while it doesn&amp;#039;t contain our own triple-tested recipes from the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, it does have recipes from sources like Betty Crocker, Woman&amp;#039;s Day, and Epicurious. You can search for recipes within the database and import them directly into a shopping list, which organizes ingredients into dairy, produce, meat, and other common categories. ZipList will automatically highlight common pantry ingredients (like a teaspoon of salt or tablespoon of butter) and ask whether you have these on hand or need to buy more. When you&amp;#039;re done, ZipList even provides directions to nearby grocery stores to do your shopping. One other small complaint, identical ingredients don&amp;#039;t get bunched together on the shopping list, so if you import three recipes that call for cheddar cheese, you&amp;#039;ll have to add the quantities together by yourself to figure out how much you need to buy. You can also enter your own recipes and ingredients directly; plus, the app version has a barcode scanner, which allows you to scan the UPC codes on packaged foods and automatically enter them into your shopping list. Another cool feature is that the online and app versions sync, so you can make a complete shopping list on your home computer and you&amp;#039;ll have it available at the store when you pull out your smart phone. Overall we think it&amp;#039;s a great service, and a nifty app. And it might just save you enough time this season to plan the perfect holiday meal. Want to stay totally organized this holiday season? See our tips for having the easiest Thanksgiving ever! Still looking for holiday meal inspiration? Check out these great Thanksgiving recipes from our own Test Kitchen. Want to see us test and develop recipes ourselves? The Test Kitchen is just one of the many exciting labs you&amp;#039;ll see if you sign up for a free public tour of the Good Housekeeping Research Institute.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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