Firstly, I'll explain what I currently do, and then I'll explain what my ideal would be.

Every week I generate a meal plan, Monday-Sunday, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, on excel. I then type out the ingredients I'll need from memory and do my groceries from that.

I don't have a lot of meals in my arsenal, say 20-30. What I'd like to do is to be able to select the meals from a dropdown menu, and a shopping list to be generated from that meal plan. So for example if one of my meals was a simple grilled chicken and salad the ingredients required would be chicken breast, black pepper, lemon, 100g lettuce, 2 tomatoes, 1/2 cucumber, tbsp olive oil automatically.

I've looked at a couple already but I lot seem to be linked to online recipe sites, and I want to use my own recipes really and my own layout.

Sorry if this is in the wrong place.

I'd appreciate any help in this. Or if anyone knows of any other software that might help me do this more easily I don't mind!

Cheers.