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Better Homes and Gardens brings you the best-of-the-best recipes, secrets and tips -- all inspired by our beloved Red Plaid cookbooks -- absolutely FREE! In all, more than 500 recipes, with photos of every one...
Mouthwatering main dishes. Favorites from the grill. Savory salads and sides. Creamy casseroles. Quick and easy everyday dinners. Slow-cooker sensations. Bubbly stews. Dozens of our most decadent desserts.
But that’s just the start ...
✓ Get 500+ delicious recipes FREE, each with a gorgeous photo
✓ See 75 how-to videos and step-by-steps that guarantee success in your kitchen
✓ Share recipes by email and Facebook
✓ Add personal notes and substitutions to any recipe, so every dish suits your family’s preferences
✓ Organize your favorites into groups in your recipe box
✓ Personalize the app with bonus chapters (100+ recipes each) for just 99¢
✓ Create shopping lists for different stores or special occasions, and check off ingredients as you add them to your shopping cart
✓ Find just what you’re looking for with advanced browsing capabilities
✓ FREE bonus recipes from our sponsors
✓ PLUS, for a limited time, when you claim your FREE MUST-HAVE RECIPES app, we’ll also treat you to our latest print issue of Better Homes and Gardens Magazine ... it’s our Free Gift to you!
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4.0
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Heather Snedigar
Should be described as best "exotic" recipes... Most of the free recipes are off the wall stuff my kids wouldn't touch if you paid them. What's with all the 'apricot glazed' stuff? If you want normal 'home cooking' recipes you have to really dig through the odd ball ones or pay for the category or recipe. I don't mind paying but I expected a little more from Better Homes. A sampler from categories like casseroles for example would have helped me rate this higher.
Lori Stephens
Nice app! I would give this five stars, but for whatever reason, the downloads are really slow on my tablet. Ignore the whiners, 99 cents is a cheap price for over 100 recipes! It costs these companies money to develop these apps. A recipe book you can easily take with you, Great!! Thanks BH&G!
Ken Aldridge
Great app. Btw to the ones that are looking for free recipes. There are free recipes all over the web. Not to mention the creative ideas in your mind. Everyone knows the flavors out there by what they have eaten through life. Just mix and match lol. How many stars would you rate yourself?
Zwanky Masai
pleased to remove this app from my phone you must pay for each recipe, you cannot even see the ingredients.... only after paying you will realize if the recipe you bought could be useful or interesting for you or not. Furthermore, the recipes looks to be a collection of standard stuff, nothing really brilliant nor particular.... have fun with this!
lynn bebee
Love it idk which I'm making 1st As the kids say a crap-ton of recipes. But alas the recipe I really want still eludes me it was in a paperback edition of either better homes or betty Crocker in early 90s. Supreme cheesecake
Dissapointed My copy of this book from 1982 has my favorite recipes in it. My dissapointment is that they changed the ingredients. My book is literally falling apart. Well it is over 32 years old. But why change an already perfect recipe. So, in the spirit of change and hope 3 stars is what it's worth right now.
User reviews
Should be described as best "exotic" recipes... Most of the free recipes are off the wall stuff my kids wouldn't touch if you paid them. What's with all the 'apricot glazed' stuff? If you want normal 'home cooking' recipes you have to really dig through the odd ball ones or pay for the category or recipe. I don't mind paying but I expected a little more from Better Homes. A sampler from categories like casseroles for example would have helped me rate this higher.
Nice app! I would give this five stars, but for whatever reason, the downloads are really slow on my tablet. Ignore the whiners, 99 cents is a cheap price for over 100 recipes! It costs these companies money to develop these apps. A recipe book you can easily take with you, Great!! Thanks BH&G!
Great app. Btw to the ones that are looking for free recipes. There are free recipes all over the web. Not to mention the creative ideas in your mind. Everyone knows the flavors out there by what they have eaten through life. Just mix and match lol. How many stars would you rate yourself?
pleased to remove this app from my phone you must pay for each recipe, you cannot even see the ingredients.... only after paying you will realize if the recipe you bought could be useful or interesting for you or not. Furthermore, the recipes looks to be a collection of standard stuff, nothing really brilliant nor particular.... have fun with this!
Love it idk which I'm making 1st As the kids say a crap-ton of recipes. But alas the recipe I really want still eludes me it was in a paperback edition of either better homes or betty Crocker in early 90s. Supreme cheesecake
Dissapointed My copy of this book from 1982 has my favorite recipes in it. My dissapointment is that they changed the ingredients. My book is literally falling apart. Well it is over 32 years old. But why change an already perfect recipe. So, in the spirit of change and hope 3 stars is what it's worth right now.
what a piece of crap... There are TOO MANY $ection$ that you havd to PAY FOR in order to get recipie$ from!!!! ** if u wanna make it a PAID app then just do it. **but DON'T "PRETEND" to be free & then NICKEL & DIME me to death. every other section i clicked a$ked me to PAY MORE MONEY to acce$$ it. ... There are MUCH BETTER RECIPE APPS out there!! ... & THEY are FREE !!
Love this app Great for beginner cooks like myself. Easy to follow recipes with great pictures. I love how the shopping list is organized for me by groups so I don't have to walk back and forth looking for things. Great amount of recipes for a free app. One thing I would change is the option to make your own groups in the shopping list or at least let us change where the ingredients go because the milk is listed under 'other' instead of 'dairy'
Not Paying! I only gave this an extra star because you can see some categories but the rest you have to pay for! Make everything free and people might be more willing to get this app and use it! I'm sticking to my other app the has more recipes, all good quality, and FREE!
Not Better! I was looking forward to this app before I realised almost every recipe you have to pay for. On top of that, it seems they haven't optimised this app for portrait mode. Oh well, much better apps out there.
FREE, BUTT (for an additional) I would give 5-stars if it was "FREE". Anytime there's any $ involved for any reason what so ever then it's a "FREE, BUT..." and I sit on mine why would I want to buy someone else's?
Nothing is for free Every time I see a recipe I like it wants to sale it to me for 99¢. All I wanted was some recipes. Made me so mad I give it a one star. Stick to sailing magazines
Impressed at first then disappointed: I downloaded this app a long time ago on my old galaxy S blaze... and I loved it, all the recipes and everything. I still like it, I'm just kinda peeved that after I got a new phone, all the add-on's for 99¢ that I bought prior are no longer on there, meaning I have tho buy them again. That isn't right to me, even Angry Birds had all the levels that were previously unlocked, still unlocked.
WARNING!!!!! THIS IS A SCAM TO TAKE YOUR MONEY. IF YOU WANT A GOOD RECIPE DONT USE THESE PEOPLES ,, THEYRE RECIPES SUCK AND THEY RIP U OFF,,,,, UR BETTER OFF GOOGLING THE RECIPE U WANT +ALL RECIPES, AND U WILL FIND WHAT U WANT WITHOUT GETTING RIPPED OFF,,, LETS MAKE COOKING FUN AGAIN AND GET THESE TYPE OF APPS BANNED!! THEY TAKE THE FUN RIGHT OUT OF IT!! CRAP, CRAP CRAP💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 CRAP
This was a great app when I used it, however when I upgraded... ... to Bigger and Better technology of cellular devices and tablets, this app is of no longer any use to me anymore. It was fine while I had it. What am I to do with it now? Am I to ask the Sprint salesman to allow me to use my old cell phone from 2011 when I need to use this app to save me the trip of using an actual cook book in my kitchen? Isn't this the point of advancement in technology?! This is the point of moving forward with innovation... Yes, the question was rhetorical and need not be answered. Yes, I paid for this app and it is adherently useless now. Don't bother buying if you expect to continue on reaping the benefits in the future. There are no short cuts. Just buy an actual cookbook and let the flour dust particles fall where they may.
Best cookbook app I've seen This is very useful. The shopping list feature is very helpful with ingredients that are not usually stocked. The only criticism I have is that the resolution of the photos is not as high as it should be. The photos are all well done though. I definitely recommend this app.
Nice app. To people complaining they have to pay for recipes, you only have to pay if you use the recipe store. Otherwise there's tons of completely free recipes in this app. Better Homes is a commercial company that sells cookbooks so they're not going to give you everything for free. Check things out before giving bad ratings.
Demoted Since the last update it crashes every time I try to view my shopping list. If they fix that I'll rate 5 stars.
Kinda free?! It is free to download and it does have some free recipes but most of the good categories have to be paid for. This app isn't as handy after that realization. That's definitely a fix for the next update. I won't recommend this app until it's FREE!!!
Great free app I love it! Some things you need to pay for but they are whole catagories of recipes not just one dish. Love this app. Have cooked recipes from here the for holidays and this made it super easy
Paying for everything Every time I see something I like about this topic you have to pay 99 cents ever time and it makes me so mad , I would not recommend or download this app unless you want to pay 99 cents for ever Good Category in that cook book very disappointed:( bad cooking book it was supposed to be hundreds of free recipes...
Needs better search engine Looking for grilled stuff pepper recipe and it was not easy to find, better if I could of typed in green pepper recipe or stuffed peppers would have got to it sooner and easier.
Good and bad I love the receipes and the shopping list feature. But I can't find how to sync my tablet and phone. So if I buy a book on one device I don't have it on the other device.
Amazing I love this app as much as I do the cookbooks themselves!!! BHG knows food! Never cooked anything bad. Tried over 100s of there recipes always something new and flavorful!
Useful I had a friend Akio had this cook book from 2007 and he is a chef and he used it so much, now that I got the app it is so handy and easy to use , I'm not a professional cook but I appreciate a good recipe.
Crummy Everything has a cost. Casserole Recipes, Cookie Recipes. The App is just a come on advertisement. Not a "Helper". Uninstalling this instant.
Dumb Have to pay more for 100 recipes than I had to for 250,000. Not giving BHG my pennies so they can drop sponsors names in my recipes. TL;DR - deleted and forgotten about the money hungry fools.
Not free App is free but you don't get. a single recipe with it, you will keep paying - it is also poorly designed for a cell phone, it's like looking at a webpage through a mail slot
Not accessible I have low vision this app doesnt allow for font size changes
Bad From 5 stars to 1. This app just used 800MB of mobile data overnight. I didn't even open it. Lucky that didn't go over my cap.
What a waste There are absolutely none of my favorite recipes from the cookbook on this app. Total waste of my time!
Baked ziti How can you have a cook book and don't include baked ziti, fail,
Could Be Better Cool that it shows featured recipes but uncool that I cannot search for recipes or I have to buy them. It works in a pinch, but I think I'll stick with my hardcover book.
u have to pay for each category idk how any of the recipes are bcuz u have to buy them.. I'm sticking to my Big Oven... a much better app.. it's free with amazing recipes..
Great BUT YOU MUST PAY Very deceptive. You start out, you like the app, you discover more recipes...then BANG, you've got to pay $.99 cents PER RECIPE. You've got to be kidding. Uninstall.
I couldn't even download the app because of an error. What a CRAP APP.
Decent app Love almost everything about this app. 1 downfall is that some things that I want to cook, the recipe has to be bought. But, it's a winner for all that is offered.
Many free I don't see how this is a scam because it clearly states which recipes cost money. If you don't want to pay, don't go to those recipes. Isn't it that simple?
Bread pudding Didn't have the plain bread pudding recipe I had in my old (twenty years ago) BHG cookbook.
This Is CRAP! Paid a dollar for the healthy cooking chapter but it keeps wanting me to pay again. Will never use again!
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