With the ever-evolving world of smartphone apps, it’s always helpful to know about the latest and greatest apps out there that can help you stay on top of your game and simplify your life with recipes and restaurant guides.  Many customers use our blenders to create vegetarian meals, but the following apps are also a good source of information for the vegetarian just starting out, the die-hard vegetarian or the vegetarian who is simply looking for sensible, healthy recipes and restaurants. Whole Foods Market Recipes This app is designed for the iPhone and iPad. Cost: Free Description: With the Whole Foods Market Recipes app, you can find recipes featuring natural and organic foods.  You can search recipes by dietary preferences, such as low fat, gluten free and vegan/vegetarian. You can also enter up to 3 ingredients you have on hand and search for find recipes using those ingredients. Every recipe includes cooking instructions and nutritional information. Once you've selected a recipe, you can automatically add the ingredients (including quantities) to the Shopping List section of the app.  You can also add, edit and rearrange ingredients manually and send your list via email.

Whole Foods Market Recipes

Healthy Recipes—By Spark Recipes This app is designed for the iPhone and iPad. Cost: Free Description: The Healthy Recipes app lets you browse and search over 190,000 recipes.  You can find recipes by course, ethnicity, preparation time or one of the app's other categories.  Each recipe provides nutrition facts, including calories, fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbs, fiber and protein. In addition to finding recipes, you can also view videos on cooking techniques and how to prepare some of the most popular healthy recipes on SparkRecipes.com.

Healthy Recipes—By Spark Recipes

I’m Hungry: Vegetarian Recipes This app is designed for Android devices. Cost: Free Description: With this app, you can find recipes from around the world, including the US, China, France, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Middle East, Spain and Thailand. The recipes contain links to some of the best cooking blogs on the web, allowing you to view full preparation instructions.

I’m Hungry: Vegetarian Recipes

HappyCow VeginOut This app is designed for Android devices. Cost: Free Description: Find vegetarian- and vegan-friendly restaurants, health food stores and other types of vegetarian businesses near your current location, or enter a location manually. The app includes information (including address, phone number and website) on businesses in more than 90+ countries. Another great feature is the interactive map; you can use filters to find businesses by location, specialty and more.

HappyCow VeginOut

I hope these 4 apps help you to simplify your life and find some yumminess along the way! What vegetarian apps do you recommend?   Photo/Description Credits:  iTunes, Google Play