Android devices, such as tablets or mobile phones, can do so much more for your life than just act as a telephone, personal calendar or a place to download books. Apps, or applications, are being created every day – many of them for free for download. If you are a certified food lover – someone who loves eating, making, learning about, or anything that has to do with food – then you can download apps onto your android that will provide just about any information, games, tools, maps, or other types of applications to make your life food-ful! Listed below are ten really fun, cool apps for “foodies” that will make you love your android phone or tablet even more!
1. Food Trivia
Food trivia is a great learning app. If you love learning about food, this is your app. The recipes, ingredients, names of foods and types of foods are not just about American foods – international foods are also part of the trivia, so any true “foodie” wouldn’t want to miss out on this fun app.
2. Food Planner
This is a very practical app that helps you not only learn about recipes but assists your meal planning across devices. If you own an android phone but did your meal planning on your android device, every time you open one or the other it will automatically sync so all of your planning is at your fingertips, wherever you go or whatever you are doing. Recipes for one meal or an entire week can be planned and the recipes can be ones that you are familiar with or ones that are provided elsewhere on the web. Using this app before going to buy your groceries will cut down on impulse buying because your grocery list is prepared for you, separated by food categories, which will also save time. This app is a necessity for anyone who owns an android.
3. Restaurant Story
This is a very cool app that allows players to create their own “virtual” restaurant! Design your own custom restaurant, any way that you want, serving whatever you like, and be as creative as you want. After all, it is your restaurant story! The game is played online and continues to add and grow each week with new developments, new designs to add or change, and plenty of ways to share your restaurant. You can even invite your Facebook friends to play along or just visit your restaurant! You’ll have a lot of fun with this app!
4. Cake Now
Cake Now is a cooking game designed mainly for children, although adults will find themselves wanting to jump into the fun. Obvious by the name, this game allows players to make cakes and who doesn’t love cakes? There are many options, colorful toppings and decorations and plenty of sweet fun to entertain your kids (or you!).
5. My Fitness Pal
A very helpful app that is informative and fun to use is Calorie Counter – My Fitness Pal, only for Android. This calorie counter is the easiest and most efficient android app for anyone who is trying to lose weight, watch calories, or just be informed about the nutritional value of the foods that you eat. With over 2,000,000 foods in the database and still growing, this is the best app available for the Android of its type.
6. All the Cooks Recipes
This is a fun and unique way to share and learn from others – you can post your recipes and pictures of the recipe as it is being made, or you can watch others do the same. By typing in any recipe, you can join fellow “foodies” from all over. When you are ready to watch a video or a recipe with photos, simply tap on the app and it will open and begin when you are ready. What’s different about this app is that you are able to watch the beginning of a posted recipe, watch as others make the recipe as it is or try a variation of it. You can also speak into this app, telling it to find recipes for the ingredients that you have in your fridge and it will show you what you can make with what you have – you’d be surprised what you can make with a couple of simple things in an empty fridge!
7. Fast Food Tapper
Another fun game that you will play, watching Gigio working in a new restaurant. He constantly encounters difficulties that he needs your help with! Everything from taking the orders to working with the final tickets presents problems for this poor little guy – you’ll have loads of fun. There are plenty of upgrades coming for this game, which is in high demand – the only thing to beware of is the addiction that you will develop from playing too much. You won’t be able to stop!
8. Yelp
This app allows you to see what others think about restaurants all over the world. The beautiful thing about this app is that it is a quick, efficient way to get hours, directions, and a quick review about a restaurant you want to visit or you just want to know more about. Reviews are brief, but specific, so you will know what to order when you arrive, what the specials are, what NOT to order, and how the service is. A great app for anyone who travels a lot or just wishes that they did!
9. Evernote Food 2.0
This app was previously only available for Apple devices, but is now available for the Android as well. This app will help you remember favorite restaurants, favorite foods, recipes, any information about each of those things – basically, it’s your personal planner for all things “food”! You can plan menus, download recipes or entire cookbooks, restaurant cuisine, and just about anything you would need to know about good food. A “staple” app for any Android!
10. Food
Another fun game that will challenge anyone young or old. This game combines the best of brain-teasing with the tastiest foods imaginable. The game is simple and involves combining food tiles in order to feed GumGom, the little monster, also the star of this game. With five different modes of difficulty to play and endless combinations, anyone who starts this game will have a hard time putting it down!
Ten great apps for all food lovers that entertain you, educate you, inform you and basically keep you engaged with your Android all of the time!
