Abstract: An electronic shopping system recommending recipes and creating shopping lists. A user selects items for purchase and proceeds to a point-of-sale terminal for checkout. The point-of-sale terminal transmits information of the purchased items to a network computer which uses the information to update a taste profile for the user. Based on the taste profile, the network computer recommends recipes that may be prepared using the items just purchased. The network computer also creates the user's meal plan for the week based on the user's taste profile, and provides the meal plan along with a shopping list.

Abstract: A system and method for creating and submitting for a user an electronic shopping list. The system presents to the user a meal list and a shopping list of ingredients contained in the meal list. The meals are preferably selected based on the food preferences of the user. The user accepts the meal list and the shopping list, causing an order request with the ingredients to be automatically created and submitted to a retailer. The user may alternatively decide to manually exclude certain ingredients in the list that the user has already purchased prior to accepting the shopping list. The exclusion may also be automatic based on past purchase information contained in the user's home inventory database. The retailer fulfills the order and delivers the ingredients to the user based on a pre-determined delivery time.