Guides
Plan better, eat better
Practical guides on meal planning, grocery savings and dinner ideas, designed for here.
September 15, 2026
TikTok Favorites keep the video, not the recipe. The three ways to save TikTok recipes, compared, and how to turn any cooking video into a recipe card you can plan and shop from.
Read the guideCopy Me That Alternative: What It Does Well, and What Olivi Adds
Copy Me That turns any web page into a recipe you own, and it has done that job well for more than ten years. Here is what it covers, what a big recipe box starts asking for, and how Olivi compares.
ReadSeptember 18, 2026High-Protein Meal Plan: a Week Built From Real Numbers
Most high-protein plans hand you a menu and a gram figure nobody can trace. This one goes the other way: real numbers from Health Canada’s nutrient file, and a week Olive composes around what you actually eat.
ReadSeptember 18, 2026Plan to Eat Alternative: the Clipper and Calendar Model, Rethought
Plan to Eat has been refining one idea since 2008: your recipes, your calendar, your list. It does that idea very well and says plainly that the menu is your job. Here is what changes when it is not.
ReadSeptember 18, 2026The meal planning template that actually gets used
The rows a meal planning template actually needs, a filled-in week you can copy tonight, and the grocery list half that most printables leave out. Plus the three things a paper grid will never do for you.
ReadSeptember 18, 2026Recipe Keeper Review, and the Alternative for When You Want the Week Decided
Recipe Keeper is one of the best-built digital cookbooks you can buy, and it works offline on more platforms than almost anything else. What it does not try to do is decide your week. Here is where that matters.
ReadSeptember 18, 2026Eat This Much Alternative: Both Generate a Plan, Then They Part Ways
You have already accepted that a machine can build the menu. The only question left is which one, and the answer is decided less by the generator than by what happens in the hour after you press the button.
ReadSeptember 18, 2026A gluten-free meal plan that holds up on a Wednesday
The hard part of a gluten-free week is not the recipes, it is the label reading, the shared toaster and the two ingredients you forgot about. Here is a full week, the places gluten hides, and how to set the constraint once instead of every Sunday.
ReadSeptember 18, 2026Meal planning for one: the portions, the leftovers, the packaging
Cooking for one fails on arithmetic and packaging, not on appetite. Here is what divides by four and what absolutely does not, a week built on three cooking sessions, and the grocery habits that stop half of it going in the bin.
ReadSeptember 15, 2026ReciMe Review and Alternative: What ReciMe Does, and How Olivi Compares
ReciMe is great at pulling recipes out of Instagram and TikTok and filing them away. What it does, where it stops, and when Olivi, which plans your week with you, is the better fit.
ReadSeptember 15, 2026What Is the Mediterranean Diet? Food List, 7-Day Meal Plan and Recipes
A clear, European look at the Mediterranean diet: the principles, the Cretan original, a food list with frequencies, a 7-day meal plan and recipes to start this week.
ReadSeptember 15, 2026Mob App Review: What the Mob Kitchen App Does Well, and Where Olivi Fits In
Mob is one of the best-loved recipe brands in Britain, and its app is a tidy way to plan a week of its recipes. What it does well, where it stops, and when Olivi suits you better.
ReadSeptember 15, 2026TikTok Recipes Worth Cooking: 20 Viral Dishes and How to Find the Good Ones
The TikTok dishes that deserved the hype, rewritten from scratch with real quantities, plus a short guide to finding recipes on TikTok that hold up once the camera is off.
ReadSeptember 8, 2026Mealime Is Shutting Down: What to Do Before October 21, and the Best Alternative
Mealime, the meal planning app born in Vancouver, closes on October 21, 2026. Here is what happens to your account, what you lose, and why Olivi, designed in Montréal, is the most natural alternative: AI planning, an automatic grocery list, your own recipes, on web, iPhone and Android.
ReadAugust 2, 2026Batch cooking: cook once, eat all week (without the chaos)
Batch cooking means cooking several recipes in one focused session, then eating all week. How it works, what to cook, and how Olivi turns it into a guided, timed session that fills your freezer.
ReadAugust 1, 2026Meal planner for busy families: the week organizes itself
Weekly menu in minutes, portions for the whole table, grocery list shared between partners in real time: how Olivi lifts the mental load of family meals.
ReadJuly 14, 2026The Best Meal Planning Apps in 2026
Six meal planning apps compared on what actually matters: how the week gets planned, what happens to your own recipes, and who writes the grocery list. A clear verdict for each profile.
ReadJuly 14, 2026eMeals Alternative
eMeals delivers preset weekly menus by subscription: efficient, but the menu is chosen for you, from a catalogue. Here is the alternative where the week is generated from your tastes, constraints and your own recipes.
ReadJuly 12, 2026Use Olivi without downloading an app: your meal planner and grocery list in the browser
Olivi runs entirely in your phone’s browser: nothing to install. And in two taps, a home-screen icon launches it like a native app, on iPhone and Android alike.
ReadJuly 8, 2026AnyList Alternative
AnyList makes great shared grocery lists, but everything starts with you: you fill it in, item by item. Here is the alternative that builds the list for you, straight from your meal plan.
ReadJuly 8, 2026Jow Alternative
Jow plans your meals and fills your cart… in French supermarkets. Its best features don’t work outside France. Here is the closest alternative: plus other options.
ReadJuly 8, 2026Paprika Alternative
Paprika is excellent for archiving recipes, but everything stays manual: no AI, no generated menus, calendar-based planning. Here is the alternative that automates what comes next.
ReadJuly 8, 2026Cooklist Alternative
Cooklist is wired to grocery chains you may not have. Here is the closest alternative: plus other options.
ReadJuly 4, 2026Recipe Nutrition Facts: Calories and Macros, Without Guessing
Olivi automatically calculates the nutrition facts of your recipes (calories and macros per serving) from an official nutrient database: sourced numbers, never made up.
ReadJune 26, 2026Easy Chicken Recipes: 25 Ideas for Weeknight Dinner
25 easy chicken recipe ideas, sorted by cooking method (oven, pan, slow cooker): enough to vary weeknight dinners without the fuss.
ReadJune 26, 2026What to Make for Dinner? The Method to Decide Without Stress
The real dinner problem isn’t cooking, it’s deciding. Here are 5 ways to find a dinner idea in two minutes: and how Olive decides for you.
ReadJune 26, 20265-Ingredient, 15-Minute Recipes: the Principle for a Quick, Delicious Dinner
What “5 ingredients, 15 minutes” really means: the rule, its limits: and 20 quick dinner recipe ideas, sorted by protein.
ReadJune 26, 2026AI Recipe Generator: From a Meal Idea to Your Dinner in Seconds
How an AI recipe generator turns a simple meal idea: or the ingredients in your fridge: into a full recipe, then a weekly menu. All with Olive, Olivi’s AI, on the web and on mobile.
ReadJune 22, 2026The all-in-one AI cooking app: never wonder what to make for dinner again
Why bring meal planning, recipes, the grocery list and the pantry together in a single app: and what AI Olive changes by connecting it all and deciding what to make for dinner for you.
ReadJune 22, 2026Healthy recipes: eat well all week without spending hours on it
What a healthy recipe is, how to build a balanced meal, and how AI Olive suggests easy healthy recipes tailored to you: with the grocery list generated automatically.
ReadJune 22, 2026Weekly Meal Planner: Plan the Week’s Meals in Minutes (and Waste Less)
How a weekly meal planner app builds your menu with AI, helps you waste less, and keeps meals balanced and affordable: with the grocery list generated automatically.
ReadJune 22, 2026How to create a recipe: by hand or with AI Olive
Three ways to create a recipe in Olivi: generate it with AI Olive, enter it by hand, or import it: and how it instantly feeds your plan and your grocery list.
ReadJune 18, 2026Import a recipe from a URL or a PDF: keep all your finds
How to import a recipe from any website, food blog or PDF, without copy-paste: and keep it in the same place as your plan and your list.
ReadJune 18, 2026The Olivi meal planner: your weekly menu in a few minutes
How to build your weekly menu in a few minutes with the Olivi meal planner: and never wonder what to eat again.
ReadJune 18, 2026Olive, your AI cooking coach: ask her what to make for dinner
Olive, Olivi’s AI cooking coach, answers "what should I make for dinner", suggests recipes based on what you have, and acts directly in the app.
ReadJune 18, 2026Shopping mode: your grocery list to check off with a thumb at the store
Olivi’s shopping mode: a big display of your grocery list to check off with a thumb, sorted by aisle, to shop without forgetting anything.
ReadJune 18, 2026Scan your recipes: from paper to your phone in seconds
How to turn your paper, handwritten or magazine recipes into usable digital recipes: without retyping anything.
ReadJune 18, 2026Sharing your grocery list: two people, in real time, no install
How to share your grocery list with your partner or a loved one, without them installing anything: and everything syncs in real time.
ReadJune 14, 2026How to plan weekly meals: the simple 4-step method
The 4-step method to plan your weekly meals, save time and cut your grocery bill.
ReadJune 14, 2026How to save on groceries: 9 strategies
9 concrete ways to cut your grocery bill every week.
ReadJune 14, 202615 quick and easy weeknight dinners (30 minutes or less)
15 dinner ideas ready in 30 minutes or less, sorted by type, for busy evenings.
ReadJune 14, 2026Meal prep for beginners: a guide to getting started
Where to start with meal prep without getting discouraged: the step-by-step method to prepare your week’s meals.
ReadJune 14, 2026Dinner ideas: 30 easy recipes for the whole week
Thirty dinner ideas: quick, family-friendly, healthy or for entertaining: and the method so you never draw a blank in front of the fridge again.
ReadJune 14, 2026Easy recipe ideas: 25 simple everyday meals
25 easy recipe ideas: few ingredients, few steps: to cook something good without spending the whole evening on it.
ReadJune 14, 2026Easy and quick vegetarian meals: 20 ideas in 30 minutes
20 easy and quick vegetarian meals: bowls, tofu, legumes, pasta: ready in 30 minutes, balanced and budget-friendly.
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