Terms of service

I Want Some Food is a free recipe and cooking site. You can browse, cook, plan meals and save what you like. In return we ask you to use it honestly, not to copy the whole catalogue, and to treat recipe information as a helpful guide rather than a guarantee. If you have a food allergy, always check the labels on the food in front of you.

By using the site you agree to what is on this page. If you do not agree, please stop using it.

The site is run by I Want Some Food, based in Australia. When this page says “we”, “us” or “our”, that is who it means. When it says “you”, it means you, the person using the site.

You can reach us at hello@iwantsomefood.com. See contact for which address to use for what.

Around a thousand recipes, plus tools built around them: search, a pantry list, meal planning, a shopping list, Cook Mode with timers, quizzes, a cooking journal and a “passport” that tracks the cuisines you have cooked. Some features use AI, and we explain that separately in how we use AI.

It is free. There is no paid plan, no subscription, no ads and no affiliate links. We do not ask you for payment details, because there is nothing to pay for.

Because it is free and still young, features come and go. We can add, change, pause or remove any part of the site, and we do not promise it will always be available or error-free. If we retire something you rely on, we will try to give you notice and a way to get your data out first.

Recipes are written for home cooking. Nutrition figures are estimates worked out from average ingredient data, not laboratory tests of your actual groceries. Allergen tags are worked out automatically from ingredient names, so they can be wrong in both directions: they can miss something, and they can flag something that is not really there.

Nothing here is medical, dietary or food-safety certification, and nothing here replaces advice from a doctor, dietitian or your local food authority. If you or someone you cook for has a serious allergy or intolerance, read the packaging on every product you use. Food, allergens and nutrition explains this in more detail, and it matters — please read it.

Cooking involves heat, knives, raw ingredients and your own judgement. You are the person in the kitchen. Timers and step timings are prompts, not a promise that food is cooked through or safe to eat.

You do not need an account to browse or cook. An account lets you sign in on more than one device and take part in community features. You can create one with Google or with an email address and password.

Keep your password to yourself, use a password you have not used elsewhere, and tell us if you think someone else is using your account. Give us details that are true — we may close an account created with someone else's email or a fake identity.

Community features — uploading photos of food you cooked, writing reviews, following other cooks — are for adults, so you need to be 18 or over to use them. Anyone can browse and cook. The site is not designed for children, and we do not aim any of it at them.

You are welcome to cook from the site, print a recipe for your own kitchen, share a link with a friend, and quote a short passage with credit. Please do not:

• copy the catalogue in bulk, or use crawlers, scripts or scrapers to harvest recipes, images or ingredient data — including for training your own models;
• republish our recipes, artwork or photography as if they were yours;
• attack, overload or probe the site, get around our sign-in or fair-use limits, or use more than your share of the AI features;
• upload anything unlawful, hateful, sexual, threatening, deceptive, or anything you do not have the right to share;
• use the site to collect other people's personal information, to advertise, or to pass AI answers off as professional food-safety, medical or dietary advice;
• pretend to be someone else, or use the site to target or contact children.

There are daily fair-use limits on the AI features so one person cannot use up the budget for everyone. If you hit a limit, it resets the next day.

You keep ownership of the photos, reviews, notes and recipe drafts you upload. You give us permission to store, resize and display them on the site so the feature works, and you confirm you have the right to share what you upload.

The detail is in community guidelines for photos and reviews, and creator terms if you submit a recipe for us to publish.

The catalogue is a mix. A large part of the recipe data started life at TheMealDB and was then adapted, corrected and enriched here. Some images are still served from TheMealDB; others are stored by us. The pixel artwork, the writing around the recipes and the site itself are ours.

Copyright and takedowns sets out where the content comes from and how to tell us if something on the site is yours and should not be.

We put real care into this site, but we cannot promise it is complete, accurate or right for your situation. To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for loss you suffer from relying on recipe, nutrition, allergen or AI content, from the site being unavailable or losing data, or from anything another user posts.

That limit has a hard boundary, and it is the important part:

Nothing on this page takes away rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law. Some guarantees cannot be excluded — for example, that services are provided with due care and skill. If one of those guarantees applies and we fail to meet it, you keep every remedy the law gives you, and nothing here limits our liability for death, personal injury or fraud caused by us. Where the law lets us choose how to put things right for a free service, our response will usually be to fix or re-supply the service.

You can stop using the site whenever you like. You can clear the data held on your device from Settings, and ask us to delete your account by emailing hello@iwantsomefood.com.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, puts other people at risk, or is used to attack the site. Where it is fair to do so we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond first. If we close your account, the parts of these terms that make sense afterwards — content licences you have already granted, and the limits above — keep applying.

We will update this page as the site changes. The date at the top shows when we last changed something that matters. If a change materially reduces your rights, we will flag it on the site rather than quietly swapping the text. Using the site after a change means you accept the updated version.

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and you and we both agree the courts there can hear any dispute. You may also have rights to complain to a consumer body where you live, and this does not take those away.

If part of this page turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce something straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.

Email hello@iwantsomefood.com and tell us what happened. We would much rather sort a problem out directly than have you take it further, and most things are a bug, not a dispute.