Good Food Reviews 

Even if you accept that this is a commercial arm of the BBC, the intrusiveness of the ads is appalling compared to other recipe sites. It's gone from my go-to site to a never-use

My subscriber number cannot be found, so despite paying money I cannot use my paid app features.

Most deserving of the 1-star however is that the customer service couldn’t get me off the phone quick enough. They didn’t answer my question, promised me an email with details that never happened and they haven’t taken my call since.

Let’s just hope I actually receive my slow cooker and they don’t try to weasel out of that one behind some “payment method exclusive” that’s a secret, like some people have found

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Like the other reviews below, I already pay the BBC a license fee and am not paying again to remove cookies or have a supposed public service broadcaster sell my data.

used to use it as a default recipe finder, no more.

Asking to pay to reject cookies and when you check conditions to reject they are soooooo intrusive! Seriously!!!!?

Was good but now nothing to do with the BBC, it is a private company who wants to sell your data to fund itself.

Where to begin: it was working great for the user, when it was not trying to be something other than it is - a webpage with recipes. Then, it would outwardly appear, an overly monetarily ambitious management took over. And they decided they needed a web app - but on the cheap. Slow, unstable, useless software. And started aggressively pushing it onto the customer. But to that point, it could still be avoided, one could choose to use only web. Now, either they want us to pay money for some mass access of bunch of services that have no connection to this one, and therefore it is unlikely that anyone is really going to use them all, or accept a very suspicious, very long list of tracking cookies. Any decent webpage which uses advertisement or subscription model, offers the possibility to refuse or curb personalised ads. This is business in the style of highway robbers. And nobody sane will volunteer to be robbed. Bye-bye

Not the BBC the private company lost all my saved recipes and with promises of rectifying the mistake they never did so after numerous calls and e mails to them. Also now the search engine in the app doesn’t work very well and you have to close the app down and then reboot it every time you search for a new recipe. Very disappointing I asked for my money back and they have ignored me. I won’t re subscribe.

The word of the year in 2023 was 'Enshitification' which basically means the product has deteriorated and continues on this trajectory unabated. Slowly this site will have a paywall, due to a socialist/communist government, one that unapologetically hates the working, middle, and upper classes.

Despite already making money from advertising, they wanted me to pay or allow cookies - bye bye!!!

There are so many great sites out there with so many great recipes that they can literally ‘do one’

They need to make it simple. I don't trust them. Less is more..

First of all, this is not the BBC. It is a private company that pays to use the name. This company has no customer service. Despite having one one year subscription for the app, they stopped access and want me to take a second subscription. No response from their ‘customer service’ which from my experience does not exist. Avoid this company portraying itself as BBC. They are just after your money.

Would love them to change their recipies up more than once a month or less than once a month as they do now. I used to love looking through them. The July one has been up and it’s nearly the end of August

Cannot be viewed unless you sign up and give away your details.

Had this for years but recently had gone down hill so much, it’s game over. It’s days are numbered I fear.

I've been using site for years. Now the app is absolute rubbish.

The app is far too slow better of using tic tok

In the past used the website for accessing many good recipes but now it’s so slow to load it’s impossible to use.

I've been using the app for a while now, but the most frustrating and impractical limitation is the inability to export selected recipes as a grocery list. PLEASE add a grocery list function! How is this not already a feature? Unfortunately, I’ll have to switch to another service because of this.

Why do you charge a subscription now? I loved being able to look up recipes any time of the day for free