GrubGirl.

I’ve been using recipes from Aviva Goldfarb’s The Six O’Clock Scramble: Quick, Healthy, and Delicious Dinner Recipes for Busy Families for a while now, and it’s a must have even for you busy-but-frugal yuppies that don’t have a lot of time but are getting sick of that “take out” taste of food you don’t make yourself.

Unlike usual recipe books, this one organizes meals in the form of weekly menus, grouped by season, that then translate into your shopping list for the week. (If you follow an entire week’s shopping list, she has them on her Six O’Clock Scramble web site, too.)

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I’ve come across two similar sites in the past few weeks that attempt to provide visitors with restaurant menu information for many urban areas.

allmenus debuted in late July. They’ve only really been live for a week, so here are the quick pros & cons:

Pros:

• The website has a modern look & feel
• Someone spent a lot of time typing in the menus! Menu line items are typed out (with explanations, sometimes). This helps keep the overall interface clean.

Cons:

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