Please check our FAQ below or if you still need help contact us here
Is Foodari free?
Yes. All services and functions provided by Foodari totally free of charge.
How do I register for Foodari?
Click on register in the top right hand corner of any page. This will take you to the registration page. Here you are required to submit certain information, some of which is mandatory (e.g username, password, name, address and photo) and some of which is voluntary (e.g. mobile number, about me). You are given the opportunity to withhold from public vision your age and real name.
Once you have entered your personal information you will be asked to enter a photo or choose from the Foodari images – please note that photos are required to be less than 500kb.
You must enter the antispam lettering – this is to avoid Foodari being spammed.
Finally you simply click on “save user” to join Foodari. You will receive an automated e-mail from the Foodari team where you click on the link to confirm your account.
If you are having continued trouble registering please contact us though the contact us page.
How do I change My Personal information?
Go to the My Kitchen area when logged in and click on My Account. Here you can change all aspects of your personal information, from your username to your choice of photo. Always remember to save changes.
How do I change my photo?
There are 2 ways you can change your picture;
1) Goto My account, deselect your current image, the browse button will reappear and you may upload your choosen photo.
2) Goto My Gallery and add a new picture. Browse for the picture you would like, give it a title and upload it. Now the picture is in your gallery you can simply choose it when you open My Account.
What are bites?
Bites are the measurement for a recipes popularity. They are calcualted by combining a number of different actions such as the number of times a recipe is saved to a cookery book or how many times it is visited. The bites represents how popular the Foodari community feels a recipe is.
How do I upload a recipe of my own?
Go to My Kitchen and click on create a new recipe. You will be asked whether it is a recipe of your own or from the internet, click on recipe of your own. This will take you to another screen where you will be asked to fill in the details of your recipe (name, timings, description, ingredients, cooking steps etc). You will also be asked to either upload a photo for your recipe or pick from the Foodari images and add some tags. Simply click “save recipe” and your recipe will be saved to the system and can be found through the public recipe search or within Your Cookery book.
If you are having continued trouble saving or finding a recipe please contact us though the contact us page.
How do I save save a recipe from another site on the interenet?
Go to My Kitchen and click on create a new recipe. You will be asked whether it is a recipe of your own or from the internet, click on recipe from the internet. This will take you to another screen where you will be asked to fill in the details of the recipe (name, timings, description,) and also the url of the recipe – we suggest you copy and paste it from the original site. You will also be asked to either upload a photo for your recipe or pick from the Foodari images and add some tags. Simply click “save recipe” and your recipe will be saved to the system and can be found through the public recipe search or within Your Cookery book.
If you are having continued trouble saving or finding a recipe please contact us though the contact us page .
How do I edit a recipe?
If you have uploaded a recipe and wish to change any of the details then you can do so from Your Cookery Book. Below each of the reipe you have stored there is an edit icon. Hit this and you will be taken into the recipe submission page, where you can change all of the details.
Don't forget to re-save it though!
What are tags?
Tags are keywords assigned to a person or recipe thus describing them and can be used for classification. Foodari uses tags so visitors to the site can classify, and then find, information using their own words and descriptions. The more tags added to recipes the more valuable they become. For instance if 1000 people have tagged a recipe as “easy” other users can rely on the information that the recipe is in fact easy!
What is the difference between searching tags, title and ingredients or searching any other combination?
Foodari provides visitors with the option of which information to search. By searching just tags for example you may search more subjective classifications like “easy” difficult” “dinner party” or “rich”. If a visitor has a specific ingredient requirement for a recipe they may search just the ingredients.
We advise that unless you are looking for something very specific that you search all 3 classifications.
What are My Exclusions?
Registered members of Foodari may set preferences for the recipes they search and are e-mailed by setting exclusions. Exclusions fall in to 2 categories – Ingredient and Nutritional.
Users should set ingredient exclusions if they have certain intolerances or religious dietary requirements. By doing so within the My Exclusions area you will omit these ingredients form your searches.
Users should set nutritional preferences to omit recipes by nutritional value. So for example if you are only interested in receiving recipes that are under a certain calorific value or have a certain GI content.
We must stress that while we strive to make this service as accurate as possible we encourage all users to check the detail of any recipe ahead of cooking or consumption