Cooking Light Recipes: Quick and Healthy Menu Maker App Reviews

I thought it would have tons of recipes but it barely has any. I mostly cook chicken and there are only about 10 recipes. Wish I read reviews first!! I wang my $$$ back :-/

I love Cooking Light recipes but we are vegetarian so it doesnt make sense to get the magazine or cookbooks. I love this app. Beautiful photos and delicious easy-to-make meals with side dish and dessert suggestions. Cant print but can email the recipe and use it at the grocery store easily, or use it right from my phone or iPad mini. A search feature would earn the last star.

I got the app and cant even download it. I deleted half my apps bc I was so excited to get this one just to keep saying theres not enough storage and there is. I wish I read the reviews first.

Really disappointed. Cant search like the website.

I thought it would be nice to be able to build meals with this app. But there were very few options and just did not satisfy. If it had more extensive list of recipes would be better. I got a refund.

This is not a searchable app of the magazine recipes. This is a FEW menu option recipes. Very very disappointing; especially since it costs.

I also expected to be able to search recipes from the magazine. Instead, I have limited choices from items that are all very similar in nature. I can do better doing a google search.

All meals are easy to make and delicious!

This app has been one of my poorer purchases. The app does not give you the ability to search through all cooking light recipes, or any for that matter; there is no search tool. I needed the search tool especially because I was interested in making a soup which there is not category for. I expected MUCH more for my $3.99.

Really?!?

Only a handful of Preprogrammed recipes! Terrible app.

How can this app not have a recipe search?! Completely useless otherwise. Dumb.

I love the functionality of the app but there are so few recipes!! What is up with that? Nowhere near 300 recipes. Come on release more recipes!!

This has the potential to be a great app--I like how it suggests meals for you, and I wouldve given it 5 stars if it were a free app. BUT it needs so many more improvements to be worth the price I paid for it. It needs a search feature, at least for suggestions for different meals, if searching for a specific recipe is never going to be an option. For example, Id like to be able to log in and search through breakfast recipes in the morning, and get some suggestions. As of now, you can only see dinner entree, side, and dessert suggestions. I also follow the cooking light diet, so being able to track my recipes for the week on my phone (without having to log into the actual website) would be awesome. Please add some features to this app, and it will be great.

Do not purchase this app..it is not worth the money. You cant search for anything, you can only scroll through a very limited number of recipes. Once you do have your "menu" selected, there is absolutely no way to collate the ingredients or get a shopping list. I want my money back.

It is important to read the description and/or reviews when buying an app, as it seems that most of the negative reviews relate to being disappointed when the app was not what you imagined it to be. I absolutely love Cooking Light recipes, books, magazines, their website, and this app too. I use this app often when I am running errands and realize I need to plan dinner and stop at the store. This app has saved my dinner plans on countless occasions, because I can find great recipes instantly. Also, once you pick an entree OR a side dish, you can select "suggested menu," and it will give you a suggestion for a complete healthy meal (including a dessert!), with the option still to pick a different side/entree, or the option to completely take the dessert or sides off the menu for that night. Additionally, you can see the nutritional value all added up for the entire meal. I LOVE that! The app warns you if the recipe is a longer, more time involved dish, which is helpful too. I have made almost everything on this app. My favorites include the Asian Lettuce Cups, the White Bean and Hominy vegetarian chili, the Filets with wine sauce, the pork with cherry sauce- there are SO MANY good ones, Yes, a search feature might be nice. However, I use this app so often that I am able to quickly and easily find whatever it is I am looking for. It also breaks things down into categories including entree, and within that, you can select poultry, pork, vegetarian, fish, meat, pasta, etc. Within the sides, you can select salads, pasta, potatoes, etc., and for desserts, you can choose quick cook or no bake. There are only a couple of egg/breakfast type foods within the vegetarian option, so I would avoid buying this as a breakfast menu planner. But for lunch or dinner, this is a really great app! I have had it a long time. At one point, an update added additional recipes and those were included for free as I already had the app!! :) It is NOT the magazine, so download a different app for that. I love it and cant recommend it enough. I made my mom buy it too!! Lol.

I was very disappointed that for a $3.99 purchase price, the recipe catalog is so slim and theres no search feature.

I am a big fan of Cooking Light recipes. They are mostly high on flavor and low on calories. Have 9 of their cookbooks and wanted this app mostly for the search ingredients aspect which is missing. I would have happily paid 10 times the amount for this app with all their recipes searchable. As is not useful

I thought maybe the few choices were just a preview of the ap. Then realized the 10 items per category are really it! I cant believe they charge for this.

I am very disappointed with this app and wish I had read the reviews prior to purchasing. The fact that there is no search bar is a major issue. Additionally, the interface is not user friendly as it only allows the viewer to see one recipe at a time. This aspect makes perusing more time consuming than I would like. I have been enjoying and utilizing the free apps Garden Plate and Zipongo much more than this one.