Top 10 food apps

Best for quick & tasty recipes

Jamie's 20 Minute Meals

If you're strapped for time but love variety, Jamie's 20 Minute Meals app is packed with quick and inventive recipes. The app also has a shopping list feature, so you can note down any ingredients you need to pick up. There are plenty of video demos too, so if you're after advice on how to chop an onion quickly, or de-clutter your kitchen, Jamie offers up some useful tips.

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Best for shopping online

Tesco Groceries

Tesco's app makes online shopping on your phone very doable with the option to save your favourite items so you don't have to re-select products each week. You can also scan the barcodes of items in your fridge using your phone, and the app automatically gives you the option of adding them to your shopping list. Next time you're waiting at the dentist or queuing at the Post Office, you can sneakily get your weekly shop sorted!

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Best for reducing food waste

Love Food Hate Waste

This handy app is full of tips and tricks on reducing food waste. If you're always throwing out food, the portion planner feature on this app is really helpful. The tips on the app are useful too, and using them can save a family up to £430 a year by avoiding food waste. With some parts of Britain throwing away as much as 60% of the food they buy, this app can definitely help to reduce food waste and the amount you spend.

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Best for cooking meat

Ask the butcher

Getting to know the different cuts of meat available and how to use them adds real variety to meal times and can save you a small fortune. Ask the Butcher has diagrams of the different cuts for lamb, beef, veal and pork, along with tips on what to do with cuts and how to cook them. There are recipes too and a useful meat timer for each cut to cater for rare, medium and well-cooked options.

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Best for BBQs

iBBQ
You can even check the weather with this app, which makes planning a BBQ easy work. iBBQ lets you search for your nearest local butcher, lists parks where you're allowed to BBQ, and is brimming with recipes and tips. There's also a cooking calculator, so you're in no danger of burning those lamb kebabs which have been lovingly marinated for hours!

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Best for seasonal eating

River Cottage Every Day

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his River Cottage team have come up with an app that makes eating seasonally simple. You can check what's in season now and pick other readers' brains for local eating tips through the community registered with the app. There are lots of Hugh's mouth-watering recipes too, along with video demonstrations and even tips on foraging.

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Best for coffee

Barista
If you love your coffee with a passion, this app is brilliant for ensuring you turn out top notch coffee at home. There are guides and demos for making the perfect latte, espresso, flat white and more, along with tips on milk texturing and pouring heart-shaped froth as a finishing touch. Just watch out: there's the potential to get pretty obsessive about coffee with this app!

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Best for inspiration

Antonio Carluccio's Simple Cooking
This app from Antonio Carluccio is great for inspiration. If you're stuck in a culinary rut, delving into this app conjures up culinary gems such as Umbrian lentil & sausage stew, mushroom & truffle risotto, and Williams pears in red wine sauce. There are tips from the man himself on larder essentials too, but this app is mostly about drooling over the recipes.

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Best for checking E numbers

Food Additives Checker
This is a really useful app for checking which E numbers are considered safe, and those that aren't. Just type in the E number you'd like to check, and up pops its grading, origin and side effects. E numbers are graded from 1- 5 (5 being dangerous) on this app, and it's quick and easy to check the details against food and drinks that you're buying.

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