Sidekick by Sorted Food

Love all I have chosen so far. Tasty easy to follow and even suggestions if need to substitute an ingredient and twists by others that have done a recipe before me. No leftovers around here-it’s all gone!! Thanks guys.

I’ll start by saying I love everyone at Sorted Food and truly enjoy all of their content. We love the concept behind the Sidekick app and the recipes we tried were fantastic! It’s well thought out meal planning with great recipes and instructions that are easy to follow. The biggest issue we ran into really had more to do with our local groceries not being well stocked which meant we had to go to several stores to get all the ingredients or improvise substitutions. We did appreciate the fact that they recently added nutrition information to their recipes, but currently there’s no filter or search option available for those nutrition facts, which would be very helpful for us. There are a lot of great things about the app that we love, it’s just not the best fit for us at this time. We look forward to trying it again in the future!

The app has come along way, over the last 4 years. I’ve originally signed up to expand my culinary awareness and was sick of wasting ingredients. Sidekick definitely fulfilled my criteria. Then I stuck around to see how long the recipes would come around the second time round. Four years later not 100% recycled dishes, but occasionally variations on same theme. Love mystery meals, love the introduction to new ingredients, miss James. Keep up the good work guys!!

I started using Sidekick when I was learning to cook after moving and I loved it! I stopped using it to move to a specific diet and I ended up coming back because I wanted to eat their recipes again. It’s so worth it and so fun!

I used to reach for prepared foods at least once or twice a week, but now I reach for this app and prep for the busy times in the next week. The app has eliminated packaging and food waste for me. Additionally, the strategies I’ve learned have helped me in my non-sidekick cooking. Recently,I have thrown together a few meals that would never had occurred to me previously, and I credit both the app and the learning from the YouTube show.

I’ve been using the app for a year now. The major benefit I wanted from it was access to the curated Meal Pack shopping lists. By working out three recipes with shared ingredients and telling me exactly how much I’ll need I could tackle my tendency to buy, “just a little extra,” for my planned meals. This let me address my own issues with poor diet, and has been a major tool in my weight loss over the past year. Not the only tool, but an important one. And I’ve managed to sustainably lose over 125 lbs since beginning to use this app. The recipes are generally clearly written, and I find them to be teaching me new techniques, as well as cheats and hacks. I’m glad to keep using this tool and keep losing weight.

I am not a person who is confident in the kitchen. I was someone who was using DoorDash every day to avoid being in my kitchen. My husband and I work a lot and this app is so handy with awesome quick recipes that it makes getting a delicious home cooked dinner on the table fast. Being in the states I now more uses for my kitchen scale too!

We’ve been on an intense debt repayment journey and I’ve utilized any tools that would help us stick to our budget. I’ve been a fan of sorted food since they’ve started and now as an adult with financial burdens and responsibilities their tips and tricks have been helpful. So naturally I wanted to see how this app would help us out on our financial journey. Tried the thirty day free trial and I noticed how it made budgeting our weekly groceries much easier. Again, I try to use any tools to make this rather tedious debt repayment journey bearable. So I had absolutely no issue making room for my budget for the roughly $60 annual fee. Overall I’d say that it has helped our family save hundreds in groceries since I’ve started using it four months ago. However, like many apps out there; there are some improvements that can be made in the tech side. Once in a while the shopping list would sort of freeze and refuse to generate our new meals for the next week. But it typically would fix itself some time after closing the app. I’m not techy so I don’t get bothered with any of the glitches but I know for some this might be a big deal. I do love that the menus are very simple, quick, cheap yet adventurous. But if you’re not into trying new foods this may not be the app for you. Additionally, for those who doesn’t have the luxury of having international shops nearby it also may not be for you. Overall, I’m so happy with this app and it’s been a vital part of our debt repayment journey!

Downloaded this because I wanted to cook one of the recipes from a video but I think maybe I am not the target audience. I am a fairly seasoned cook and this app felt like it was made for people who are trying to learn the flow of cooking and prepping a meal. I just wanted a basic recipe and didn’t need the Instagram post style recipe or the in-recipe timers. Additionally, it didn’t seem like it was made to switch between recipes - every time I tried to exit the recipe, it would ask me if I had completed it, and other little quirks like that made it harder to work with. Maybe the idea is that all you’ll need is this one recipe for dinner, but that just doesn’t vibe with my cooking style. I think there are things that could work, but I really just had the sense that I am not the ideal user here. Maybe I should have downloaded the cookbook app instead??

I do enjoy this app, I use it off and on (not just because of its functionality, but because of the recipes themselves). I only have a few gripes: 1. I wish I could disable the automatic timer when going through a recipe step-by-step. I have my own timer I prefer. 2. The text when viewing a recipe in the step-by-step format is small and often requires scrolling. I assume they intend for you to listen to the audio prompts, but I like to listen to other things while I cook. 3. It’s reasonable to be logged in to more than one device at a time, and it’s pretty inconvenient to get logged out of one when I use the other.