A while back, we created a Shopify App to make blog content discovery easier for Shopify stores.
200 customers + 36 reviews (avg. 4.9 stars) later, I realized a lot of my customers are using it for their recipes blog. They want to let people easily discover recipes with different criteria like flavour, experience level, cooking time etc. and our app allows them to do just that.
As I refined our mission to focus on making content discovery easier for Shopify merchants (and added blog search & featured articles along the way), I realized many customers have no idea there are places on the internet they can share and distribute their carefully crafted recipes (for free), and build new customer base and followers – as long as it is done tastefully.
Some of these places are the different subreddits for different food niches. I have spent some time to compile them below, and hope these can help anyone running food business on Shopify better distribute your recipes content.
Healthy Eating & Lifestyle
1. r/EatCheapAndHealthy
Followers: 4.4m
Description: Eating healthy on a cheap budget.
2. r/SlowCooking
Followers: 3m
Description: r/Slowcooking is a food-related subreddit for sharing ideas, recipes or pictures in which a “slow cooker” was used in the preparation of meals. Many people think a slow cooker is named a “crock-pot,” however this is a trademarked name of just one manufacturer. Slow cooking is an ideal method for cooking less expensive portions of meat to make them more tender and tasty than by other forms of cookery. Vegetarian and vegan dishes can also be made via slow cooking. – crockpot, slowcooker, crock.
3. r/KetoRecipes
Followers: 586k
Description: A community for sharing recipes for meals, drinks, snacks, and desserts that fit into a ketogenic diet. Questions about keto? Also check out /r/keto!
4. r/GlutenFreeRecipes
Followers: 47.4k
Description: Easy everyday gluten free recipes!
5. r/Salads
Followers: 16k
Description: For all salad fans and now without the spam! Cooked, chopped, hot, cold, meaty, vegetarian, green, pasta, olive, shrimp, broccoli salads and more. Recipes and tips.
Burgers & Sandwich
6. r/EatSandwiches
Followers: 315k
Description: The greatest sub on reddit
Similar:
- r/Sandwiches (71.9k followers)
7. r/Burgers
Followers: 148k
Description: A community for discussion about Burgers. Share recipes or photos of burgers you have recently enjoyed.
SImilar:
- r/CheeseBurgers (43.4k followers)
Drinks
8. r/Cocktails
Followers: 292k
Description: Welcome to cocktails
9. r/Wine
Followers: 180k
Description: A place to share all the latest happenings in the world of wine… the beverage, not the software.
Quick & Easy
10. r/MealPrepSunday
Followers: 2.5m
Description: /r/MealPrepSunday is a subreddit dedicated to meal prepping. This is a space to discuss all things about meal prepping. Whether you’re looking to prep to save time, money, or to get in those gains, this is the place to ask questions, get answers, and share your meal preps with the world of Reddit! Happy prepping!
11. r/FoodHacks
Followers: 2.8m
Description: Food hacks is a place to share quick and simple tips on making food that has more flavor, more nutritional value, or both!
12. r/15MinutesFood
Followers: 765k
Description: A sub for sharing food that can be made in around 15 minutes or less! Share recipes, links and experiences. Be nice to each other and have a good day!
13. r/BudgetFood
Followers: 621k
Description: Food on a Budget
14. r/InstantPot
Followers: 433k
Description: A place for Instant Pot owners to discuss, debate, divulge, digress and digest.
15. r/OnePotMeals
Followers: 79.8k
Description: Are you a new chef? A lazy chef? Or just someone looking for new recipes that cut down on prep and clean up in the kitchen? Well you are in the right place! Our focus is on meals that are cooked in one pot.
16. r/EasyRecipes
Followers: 317k
Description: A community for sharing and finding your tastiest, easy recipes! Individuals of all skill levels, tastes, and talents are welcome!
17. r/RiceCookerRecipes
Followers: 43.1k
Description: Do you have a rice cooker? Want to learn how to use it for things other than rice? Then this is the subreddit for you!
18. r/AirFryer_Recipes
Followers: 29.3k
Description: A place to discuss all things air fryer! Share your favorite recipes and tips and gain some inspiration.
Pastry, Cakes & Desserts
19. r/Baking
Followers: 843k
Description: For all your baking needs! Recipes, ideas and all things baking related. Cakes, cookies, pies, tarts, muffins, scones, short- rye- wheat- and naan breads welcome!
20. r/Dessert
Followers: 73.9k
Description: Post recipes, pictures, or discuss your favorite desserts. Have any great recommendations for bakeries/sweet shoppes/amazing ice cream parlors that you just have to make a trip to in your lifetime? Put ’em here! Yum 🙂
21. r/Pastry
Followers: 16.4k
Description: Post recipes, pictures, or discuss your favorite desserts. Have any great recommendations for bakeries/sweet shoppes/amazing ice cream parlors that you just have to make a trip to in your lifetime? Put ’em here! Yum 🙂
Cheese
22. r/Cheese
Followers: 112k
Description: Welcome to Cheese
23. r/GrilledCheese
Followers: 443k
Description: Welcome to /r/GrilledCheese! Home to mankind’s greatest invention: the grilled cheese sandwich of course! We are the National Geographic of bread, butter, and cheese. Give us your brilliant photos, recipes, and grilled cheese experiences. Melts go in /r/Melts, which is a great sub! If it’s awesome, post it. Except you, PIZZA GUY. U NO POST /r/GrilledCheese == the Greatest Sub in the Multiverse™! Pictures and discussion of Cheesy Grilledness. Good memes too.
Flavourful
24. r/Spicy
Followers: 194k
Description: Welcome to spicy
25. r/IndianFood
Followers: 125k
Description: Indian Food is your step by step guide to simple and delicious home cooking. From regional Indian cuisine to popular dishes from around the globe, our community’s focus is to make cooking easy. Come join us and learn!
26. r/AsianEats
Followers: 42.5k
Description: Welcome to asianeats
27. r/HotSauceRecipes
Followers: 28.9k
Description: Dedicated subreddit for all varieties of hot sauce recipes.
28. r/Curry
Followers: 11.9k
Description: Welcome to Curry
29. r/ChineseCooking
Followers: 11k
Description: If you want to learn how to cook REAL Chinese food, this is the place to share the wisdom!
Vegan / Vegetarian
30. r/VeganRecipes
Followers: 401k
Description: A place for your favorite vegan recipes! Please read the sticky thread before posting or commenting, thank you!
31. r/VegRecipes
Followers: 81.4k
Description: Welcome to VegRecipes
General
31. r/Cooking
Followers: 3.4m
Description: /r/Cooking is a place for the cooks of reddit and those who want to learn how to cook. Post anything related to cooking here, within reason.
32. r/Food
Followers: 22.7m
Description: The hub for Food Images and more on Reddit
33. r/Recipes
Followers: 3.3m
Description: Improve and share your cooking repertoire with recipes from reddit’s community.
34. r/CookingForBeginners
Followers: 668k
Description: Just moved into your first apartment and don’t know a thing about cooking or have lived on your own for years and have existed on take out and fast food? Then this is the sub for you! Learn how to cook simple recipes for yourself and find it isn’t as hard as you think it is. Post your questions about cooking and links to easy recipes and basic techniques. Come to learn or to teach.
35. r/AllDeliciousRecipes
Followers: 12.3k
Description: Home of Delicious Healthy recipes, the best place for easy healthy recipes from All over the world! A community for discussion about Recipes. Share healthy recipes or photos of healthy you have recently enjoyed!
36. r/RecipeInspiration
Followers: 34.9k
Description: Join Recipe Inspiration community for great collection of recipes across the internet. Get inspired by new or old recipe ideas for all kind of diets (vegan, vegetarian, paleo, gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, low carb, keto) as well as meal prep and meal plan ideas. Also, you are free to add the photos of your food and use a flair Food Porn.
37. r/TonightsDinner
Followers: 202k
Description: Welcome to tonightsdinner
38. r/TopSecretRecipes
Followers: 137k
Description: Welcome to tonightsdinner
39. r/MimicRecipes
Followers: 88.4k
Description: Mimic recipes! Recipes that mimic famous restaurant foods. The admins ruined our only useful native mod tool, so we are closed now. No point in having a subreddit we cant moderate. Bye! Try like twitter or instagram, this website sucks.
40. r/FromScratch
Followers: 44.2k
Description: A subreddit dedicated to going beyond traditional cooking recipes.
If you find this list useful, please feel free share with your colleague, communities or anyone you know that could benefit from this.
If you are running a recipe blog on Shopify and are looking for ways to improve the content discovery experience, feel free to try our app here. Love to hear your thoughts!
