Guardian Feast App

[Stokey Sue]

Last night a link in my online Guardian prompted me to download the new Feast app. So I did.

At the moment it’s an iPhone/iPad app but apparently Android is coming soon. You need to be running iOS 17 or higher.

You don’t need a Guardian subscription, you can just sign up to the app - you do have to do that to use it. Having a Guardian subscription unlocks more but I’m not sure exactly what, as I’m signed in with my account I get everything there is.

What it is, is essentially a very good search function for Guardian recipes that presents the results clearly, then when you open the recipe it is formatted to follow easily on a small screen.

A search for tofu turned up 32 recipes, all illustrated, including all the Guardian stalwarts like Ottolenghi and Meera Sodh.

I’m quite impressed - anyone else?

[liketocook]

Oh I do hope the app comes to Android soon, I have so many Guardian recipes pinned to my favourites folder as I dind the current search function very poor.

[Ameew]

Oh that’s good to know , thanks Sue

[herbidacious]

Underneath the Feast App was an app called Saintify...

Thanks for the heads up re the Feast App, Sue.

[aero280]

I'm tempted, I see the Feast magazine every weekend, but I've stopped reading it. I would find something I "needed" to bake, and we ended up with a lot of stuff to eat.

[Earthmaiden]

I saw it advertised but then not a available on android so they can lump it.

[herbidacious]

It seems you need a subscription to access recipes. Or demands one of me. Did you click on any recipes, Sue?

[Stokey Sue]

As I said, I’m not clear how it works if you are not signed in with your Guardian account,pppaccount, as I’ve been signed in from download. I see the recipes

[herbidacious]

I did sign in via my Guardian account. But I don't pay a sub to them. Is that what you mean by a pppaccount?

[Stokey Sue]

Sorry, repeat keys

Yes as I said in the first post, I have a subscription, and I know this gives different access to signing in without a paid subscription. But, as I said, don’t know what the difference is.

[Rainbow]

I saw it advertised but then not a available on android so they can lump it.

According to the info. I saw ' It will be coming soon to Android later this year.'

It also said
'The Guardian Feast app is available for a 14-day free trial, followed by £2.99 per month in the UK, €2.99 in EU, $3.99 in the US and Australia, and $2.99 in Canada and the rest of the world for a monthly subscription, with an annual option also available.'

Not sure what sort of subscription you have, Sue.

[Stokey Sue]

For the avoidance of doubt, I subscribe to the Guardian newspaper delivered through an app to my iPad or read onlin.
It seems I get the full version of Feast included.

I knew you didn’t get all the content of Feast if you weren’t already a subscriber but I didn’t know what you do get, because I don’t see that.

I really think this is pretty clear in my original post. I said I had a “Guardian subscription”. I don’t know what else a “Guardian subscription” would be other than some kind of a paid account with the Guardian.

[herbidacious]

Sorry, Sue, I get brain fog (aka periodically become distressingly stupid) and yesterday was particularly bad. Unfortunately I don't always know how bad I was until it's lifted. I was clearly confusing having an account with a subscription. We buy the physical paper so don't have a sub as well.
I probably can't get the app on my iPad even if I did have a subscription. It's old and I've not been able to update the iOS for a long time.

[KeenCook]

Just had a look at the blurb about the app, re access for subscribers, it just says:

"Will I get free access as an existing Guardian supporter?"
"Please log into the Feast app with your Guardian account to check whether you are eligible for free access."

[Earthmaiden]

I have just read that this app is available for android at last. I haven't looked at it or read how many hoops you have to jump through to access it but here's the link https://www.theguardian.com/help/inside ... -feast-app

[Amber]

My iPad is too old for this, but I will look into it on family sharing on my phone as OH has a Guardian subscription.

I wonder if it means there’ll be less free Guardian recipe links?

[herbidacious]

I don't see why. The existence of a subscription hasn't led to fewer things in general visible online. But who knows, in the future.
I think it's probably time I took out a sub anyway... (Not particularly fussed about having the app but I am enjoying the emails they send me weekly.)
We buy a physical version, but just once a week. Don't really seem to have time to read newspapers mid week. We used to though. I used to buy a Guardian every day when I was younger. Less commuting time these days, and what I have is spent on the Duolingo...

[Amber]

We tried the chicken with red pepper in a smoked paprika sauce. It was ok (easy), but we won’t be having it again.

[Amber]

We’ve also made the Ottolenghi tuna mayonnaise picnic cake. I’m not convinced… prep time was meant to be ten minutes, it took an hour and a quarter from starting to putting in the oven . It’s now chilling, ready for the parsley salsa tomorrow.


By ‘we’, I mean ‘I’!

[miss mouse]

prep time was meant to be ten minutes, it took an hour and a quarter from starting to putting in the oven :o . It’s now chilling, ready for the parsley salsa tomorrow.

Not just me who is extremely slow then. It is annoying when the prep time is so out of kilter.