Quick video guides

4 ways to quickly add your ingredients

Find recipes using only what's in your kitchen

Schedule a meal

Use a receipt to add ingredients to your Kitchen

Build and manage a shopping list

User Guide

Home Page

The first time you use the app, after onboarding this is where you will land.

We have dropped some ingredients into your Kitchen (based on your profile), but will suggest that you add some more, as well as scheduling some recipes in the Planner tab.

Profile

Access your Dietary Preferences and Allergy Settings.

Understand how we look after your Privacy, get in Contact with us and a few other house cleaning tools.

Manage Diets & Allergies

IMPORTANT:

Whilst every attempt to eliminate allergens from results is made, sometimes an ingredient which may impact your health can slip through, so please ensure you check the ingredients before shopping, making and consuming.

Household Ingredients Master List

This is where you can see all your Ingredients.

  1. Add ingredients using:

    1. Predictive Text

    2. Scan a receipt

    3. Voice to Text

  2. Remove ingredients from your Kitchen

Easy Ingredient Management

Three Easy Ways To Add Ingredients

  1. Text recognition - start typing and we will match to our ingredient database

  2. Been Shopping? Snap a photo of the receipt and let us extract items to add to your Kitchen

  3. Use the Voice-to-Text tool to add multiple ingredients at once

Things can only get better… We have worked hard to build a database that covers a broad range of ingredients, but not everything you have will be in there. The good news is, the more you use the app, the more we will add to improve your experience.

Recipes

Thousands of recipes from around the world that align with your preferences and needs.

  1. Bookmark favourites

  2. Search by keywords and titles

  3. Filter like no other recipe solution

  4. Glance at what ingredient you are missing for a recipe

Filter For The Perfect Recipe

Alongside setting your Dietary Requirements and Allergens in your Profile, Filters helps you find the perfect meal. A few tips:

  1. Key Ingredient - only show recipes with whatever ingredient is included in this filter

  2. Family Friendly - eliminate meals that are unlikely suitable for children

  3. Only Your Ingredients - See only recipes with ingredients you have listed in your Kitchen

Recipes In Detail:

Ingredient Tab

  1. See what you have & what you are missing

  2. Ingredients in brackets and colours teal are suggested substitutes

  3. Update your Kitchen and Shopping master lists directly from the recipe

Schedule a recipe for a future date and time

Share the recipe with others or bookmark

Recipes In Detail:

Method Tab

If the recipe does not open after a few moments use the red button in the top right to open it in an external browser.

Completed a Recipe? Click the button at the bottom to quickly update your pantry, shopping list and rate the recipe so we can share more relevant recipes to you.

Completed Recipe

After making a recipe, quickly update your Kitchen and Shopping to keep things up to date.

Rating a recipe will help others with making a good choice and us to find other recipes you might like.

Meal Planner

View and edit meals in your planner

Shopping List

View shopping your list and add items (even non-ingredient items).

NOTE: Entering items here, whether text, image upload or voice-to-text, add items to your Shopping list. To add items you have bought to your Kitchen, either check the button next to the ingredient or go to Kitchen and use your receipt with image upload (the camera icon).

Change Tracking Settings

We do not provide personally identifiable information to any third party except those that help the Mother Hubbard app function for you.

We typically use tracking information for research purposes, where information is aggregated.

Turn on tracking on Android:

1. Go to Settings

2. Scroll down and tap Privacy

3. Select Ads or Activity Controls (this may vary by device)

4. Find Mother Hubbard and if tracking is not enabled, turn it on

Turn on tracking on iOS:

1. Go to Settings

2. Scroll down and tap Privacy & Security

3. Select Tracking

4. Find Mother Hubbard and if tracking is not enabled, turn it on

If in iOS you cannot see Mother Hubbard or other apps, you will need to follow some additional steps:

1. Go to Settings

2. Scroll down and tap Privacy & Security

3. Select Tracking

4. Ensure Allow Apps To Track is turned on

5. Uninstall Mother Hubbard and then reinstall

6. When you then open the app again it will ask for permission to track.

7. Using your login details will reinstall your prior information, like kitchen items etc.