In the old days a traditional Sunday dinner in Bermuda meant a roast with maybe some macaroni or potatoes and a vegetable, with a pie or cake for dessert.

These days Sunday dinner has gotten a whole lot more complicated as people’s dietary lifestyles have become much more diverse either for taste or health reasons. My poor mother-in-law, who is a trained chef, now has to put all her skills and cleverness to the test to cook for a family that includes people with lactose intolerance, Celiac Disease, a bean and egg intolerance and a child who refuses to eat most things with a colour. Phew! And she manages, somewhat miraculously.

The good news is that there are now hundreds of apps, websites and blogs that can help you feed yourself and your family in the way that suits you the best. Here are a couple of them.

Try these apps:

There are now many apps for people with gluten intolerance and Celiac Disease. These provide recipes and advice. Is That Gluten Free? for Groceries from Midlife Crisis Apps is designed to help with grocery shopping. It is compatible with the iPhone and iPad, and you take it to the grocery store and type in different products to see if they are gluten free. It includes more than 14,800 verified gluten-free products from more than 360 brands, including private-label grocery store brands, and also has a searchable ingredients tab that designates safe, unsafe and possibly unsafe ingredients. You can search by category, brand or product name, and you can follow one-touch links to company websites to search for additional information. The app is $7.99, with free updates and no monthly fees. There is an Eating Out version by the same company.

AllRecipes.com is a favourite website for foodies everywhere and has lots of great recipes. They have an app called Dinner Spinner that has thousands of user-submitted recipes. The neat thing about this app is that you physically shake your iPhone anytime you want a new, random recipe. Its interface allows you to easily filter recipes if you have special dietary requirements. It is $2.99.

If you are counting calories, there’s an app for that! Try Calorie Counter by MyNetDiary for the iPhone and iPad. It is reportedly easy to use and one of the top health and fitness apps for iPad. This app allows you to scan bar codes, search through a data base of foods to figure out how many calories are in that. It also allows you to create recipes, among other things. It is free and available on iTunes.

Simply Organic Recipes from Blockdot, Inc focused on healthy and wholesome meals. It includes recipes, a random recipe generator, and tips on cooking and saving money in the grocery store. There are no pictures, however and the recipes don’t spin when you shake your device.

Many popular chefs these days are jumping on the app bandwagon and have their apps available for download, along with blogs and websites. One of the most popular apps in this category is Jamie Oliver’s 20 Minute Meals, $7.99, developed by Zolmo. Mr Oliver also has a 15 Minute Meal version. If you are visual, it’s a great choice as there are very detailed, step-by-step pictures included with each recipe. Now you can finally find out if that recipe is really supposed to look like that. For this app you need Android 2.0.

For the vegetarian and vegan eater there are many apps to choose from. The VegWeb Vegan Recipe Finder for $2.99, is one of the most popular downloads. It is for iPhone and has over 13,000 vegan recipes, including everything from raw to kid-friendly meals. The recipes are submitted by VegWeb’s users, and some include helpful tips from the recipe’s author. You can create a shopping list and share it through e-mail or social networking site.

Some foodie blogs and websites to try:

The Paleo Diet, created by Dr Loren Cordain, is all the rage these days, and is based on presumed diet of people in paleolithic times. Try this blog everydaypaleo.com started by Sarah Fragoso, author of several cookbooks including Everyday Paleo Family Cookbook: Real Food for Real Life. She offers lots of Paleo Diet recipes, book suggestions and a frequently asked question (FAQ). She also has a podcast called Everday Paleo. Featured this week on the blog is Creamy Carrot Fennel Soup.

A great choice for vegans might be veganyumyum.com written by Lauren Olm, an author with a book by the same name. This is one of the web’s most popular vegan blogs. Also follow her on Instagram under the username: littleturkey. There is also a Vegan Yum Yum app for iPhone. Miss Olm is known for her food photography. Kitsune Soba is featured in this week’s blog.

Another highly recommended blog is notwithoutsalt.com. The focus of this blog, written by Ashley Rodriquez, a former Beverly Hills pastry chef, is all things salted; sweet and savoury. This was the 2013 winner of the Saveur magazine’s best food blog award. This week’s posting was Feed South Africa, Coconut and Lentil Soup.

If you like Indian food try www.quickindiancooking.com written by Mallika Basu author of Miss Masala: Real Indian Cooking for Busy Living. She was born and brought up in Kolkata, India and has lived in England since she was 18. She works as a public relations executive. This week’s feature is a Paleo Diet friendly curry called Andhra-style Methi chicken.

For a male take on cooking try www.mydaddycooks.com. This blog is written by Nick Coffer, father of two, and author of My Daddy Cooks. Mr Coffer started writing the blog in 2009 when he suddenly found himself unemployed and at home with his son, Archie. Since then his blog has become immensely popular and he has even been featured in a British television commercial for Sainsbury’s. The general focus is how to cook in a healthy way for children and includes lots of videos of Mr. Coffer preparing meals. This week Bananaostrich muffins are one of the recipes featured on the blog.