Best App to support starting a Low Carb diet?

Hi everyone. I hope I am in the right forum here. I am looking for advice on starting low-carbing, and the best App to support that.

For background, I am Type I since 2000, carb counting since 2001, and complication free so far except for a smidge of retinopathy. I turned 50 recently. The current project is a switch to a lower carb diet in order to help stay complication free - since I am about to do a "DAFNE-clone" course that runs in my area as 'revision'.

Looking at the Cals and Carbs app and material, I am meeting quite a few ingredients that I have not used regularly, so I want to build up a bit of a recipe bank in the next couple of months to get a low-carb diet which is interesting and varied. As a step 1 I am aiming for 100-125g carbs a day (currently approx 200-250g).

For a start I have the "Very Low Calorie" Recipe / Meal Plan book, which are also nicely low carb. I have been enjoying a few of these, but all the admin is quite hard work and swallows quite a lot of time - especially with the extra monitoring of BG etc at a time when I am changing things around.

Ideally I would like to be able to have a set of recipes that I can plan ahead, which will give me nutritional information for the day, and ideally a shopping list. I would love to be able to upload the shopping list into a supermarket and then have the ingredients turn up at the door (this last may be a bit optimistic). Plus I want to be able to input my own recipes.

Can anyone give me a steer as to a App or similar that would be a good support / time saver?

I have Carb and Cals for Android, but reading that the Recipe functionality vanished from the Apple version when that was upgraded I do not have that much confidence in that version. Do I need to switch to the Apple one?

Thanks for any comments, and for reading this long first posting in the Low Carb forum.

Matt

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Thanks for your replies, both.

I will have a look at Fatsecrets. (I am having more peppers, so for me it is fartsecrets). On a first very quick look I thought it seemed a little weaker on carbs than calories - though i am trying to address both to knock the BMI down from 27 to 25 over a couple of months.

I will be playing with the iPad version of Carbs and Cals today, as I am experimenting with their "Very Low Calorie" recipe picture book, and see how far I can get down into linking through to shopping. I think I will need to create a duplicate set of meals / recipes on MySupermarket, and will end up able to order ingredients fairly easily if I have a "fridge stock adjustment meal" (like a correction insulin dose) once or twice a week.

But first I need to create some menus and set up the systems .

Plan to update this thread later this week.

I will probably avoid things that deal with Net Carbs for now, in order to stick to UK measurements and calculations - for simplicity. There's enough going on without having to deal with US measurements too .

Cheers

MattW

Trying out the Apple iPad Carns and Cals.

Very much better, and particularly easy to use ... especially for display and integration between different menu levels.

And there are custom foods, custom portion sizes for existing foods, and most things can be post-edited. On the Android version, for example, you cannot go back and add a photo if you do not put one in when creating a food (unless I have missed something).