Best Free iPad Cooking Apps – for the Holidays

If you have no idea what to cook for Christmas, these free cooking apps with healthy and tasty dishes might help you plan your Holiday menu.
These are the top free iPad cooking apps.

Whole Foods Market Recipes

The application offers delicious recipes and instructions for a healthy Christmas.
You can make your own shopping list and search recipes by ingredients, categories or special diet. With special diet you are able to sort by preference, such as low fat, dairy free, wheat free, low sodium, high fiber and much more. All recipes comes with detailed step by step instructions and nutrition information.

170.000+ Recipes

The application by BigOven comes packed with a wide selection of free recipes to help you with delicious food ideas for Christmas.
Furthermore with this app you are able to create grocery lists and plan the whole menu for this Holidays season with the built-in menu planner.
The powerful search feature and user interface will help you find the best recipes for you and your family.

Allrecipes

This is the mobile/iPad version of the popular community based allrecipes.com. Here you will find not just an amazing and beautiful interface but more importantly tested and delicious dishes.
Search and find the perfect Christmas meals by dietary restrictions, ingredients, cooking method, prep time, course, or ratings.
Recipes feature detailed directions, tools you will need, ratings and more.

Epicurious

The iPad version of the award winning Epicurious.com website offers more than 30.000 professional food and drink recipes from top restaurants and chefs, from popular cooking magazines, like Gourmet, Bon Appétit.
Features full screen cookbook view with easy to follow preparation steps, providing user reviews and nutrition facts for thousands of recipes.You can create grocery lists as well.

Betty Crocker

If you liked the Betty Crocker Cookbook then this app is the free iPad version of it, with a nice collection of yummy recipes.
Recipes feature step by step how-to’s with ratings and nutritional info. It also lets you search by title, ingredients and various categories (dressings, meats, marinades, bars etc.)

Jamie’s recipes

If you like Jamie Olivers kitchen in this free trial app you will get 10 recipes and 3 videos. You can purchase further recipes packs, such as “Festive Feats”, “Classy comfort food”, “10 minute meals” and more. Packs contain at least 10 recipes, videos and range between $1.99 and $2.99.
It looks beautiful on the iPad with quality graphics and intuitive interface.