Food glorious food? If you’re looking for the best food content ideas you’ve come to the right place.
Creating content can be hard work. It’s time-consuming and sometimes you just run out of inspiration. Sound familiar?
As a blogger myself, I know exactly how frustrating it can be to have nothing to post, that’s why I’m helping you out.
I’m serving up the best food content ideas so you can focus on creating that perfect content dish.
Carry on reading to find food blog post ideas, food social media ideas, baking content inspiration and much more!
Ready to get started?
General Food Social Media & Blog Post Ideas
- Try a difficult or advance technique and create an easy-to-follow guide that your audience can try.
- Write a recipe roundup
- Establish your own food awards and share your favourites with your audience.
- Food Porn Friday
- Test out a trending recipe and share the outcome (think pancake art etc).
- XX ways to cook a specific ingredient or type of food.
- Collaborate with another blogger, content creator, or food-related account.
- Film a cook with me and have your audience follow along.
- Friday Favourites
- Make a quiz and test your audience’s knowledge.
- Interview other people who are in the food industry.
- Create a gift guide for food lovers.
- Review a cookbook
- Test recipes off Pinterest or TikTok.
- 20 ingredients everyone should have.
- Create a recipe series focusing on one ingredient, genre or another theme.
- Try-it Tuesday
- Try unusual ingredients and show your audience how they can use them in their own cooking.
- Make a poll and get your audience to share their opinions.
- Frozen food essentials
- The history of a food item/ingredient
- Souper Sunday for soup recipes
- Compare two ingredients or products.
- Explain how your audience can level up their recipes from basic to something more impressive.
- Do a recipe inspired by a country.
- Quick recipes that save time.
- Create a menu and share the recipes for it.
- Show the correct technique and offer tips.
- How to cook X in X steps/minutes.
- Taco Tuesday
- Share the best food apps
- Foods with medicinal/ beauty benefits
- Review specialist classes to level up your skills.
- Create a recipe with ingredients you hate or for a dish you hate and show how you can adapt it to make it better.
- The perfect date night recipe.
- Test out different content formats. Think reels, video, podcast, blog, photos.
- Create a food challenge and get your audience to join in.
- The best farmer’s markets/ food festivals in X
- How to organise your kitchen.
- Create a funny gif or meme that your audience will relate to.
- The best breakfast ideas for X
- Share new trends or industry news
- Ask your audience to send in questions.
- Recipes that only have a few ingredients or use little equipment.
- Compare budget products vs cheap products and explain which is better.
- Tips for taking the best food and drink photos
- How to start a food blog
- Host a giveaway to thank your audience.
- Why you started your blog/ business.
Personal Food Content Ideas
- Share your favourite food blogs
- Recipes for your favourite comfort food.
- Talk about your favourite food and restaurants.
- Recreate the first recipe you tried.
- Share your favourite foodie podcasts
- Explain how your food tastes have changed and what food you used to hate but now love or you now hate but used to love.
- Show your audience your food journey.
- Your favourite spices and seasonings
- Share your favourite recipe books
- What I eat in a day food diary
- Share your favourite cooking equipment
- A day in the life of a food blogger/baker/chef
- Share why you started to love the food industry and your first experiences.
- Test your family recipes
- Behind the scenes look at your kitchen
- Share a list of your favourite chefs or influential people.
Baking Content Ideas
- Film a bake with me and have your audience follow along
- Show your baking journey, disasters and all!
- Recreate some of the first recipes that you tried.
- How to bake X in X steps/minutes.
- Recipes that you’re practising or trying to perfect
- You favourite baking equipment.
- How to ice a cake properly.
- Where you buy your baking ingredients.
- Where you find your baking inspiration
- Test viral baking hacks.
Budget Food Blogg Inspiration
- Do a shopping haul.
- How to do your weekly shopping under £50
- Share your meal planning.
- How to use leftovers.
- Show your audience how to use basic ingredients in multiple meals.
- How to save money on your shopping.
- Cheap storecupboard essentials.
- Easy swaps that will save you money.
Drink Content Ideas
- Wine Wednesday
- Thirsty Thursday
- The best cocktail recipes
- Local winery, distillery and brewery guide.
- Transform popular cocktails into mocktail alternatives.
- Ways to spice up water.
- The best coffee equipment.
- Drink/ Food pairing guide.
- Your favourite tea companies.
- How to make a barista coffee at home.
Free-from, Vegan & Vegetarian Content Inspiration
- Do a shopping haul.
- A free-from version of a trending recipe.
- The best free-from recipes for X
- Review free-from products.
- A free-from version of your favourite recipe.
- Meatless Monday
- Holiday season recipe guide.
- Where to shop for the best free-from food.
- Veganuary recipe ideas or try it and report back.
Restaurant Blog Ideas
- Review a local restaurant.
- Create a roundup of the best restaurants in your area. You could focus on the type of restaurant or just limit the area.
- Why you should eat at X
- The best coffee shops in x
- The best takeaways in X
- How to save money when you eat out.
- Expensive restaurants that are worth the hype.
- I ate at the best-rated restaurant in X
- I ate at the worst-rated restaurant in X
Healthy Food Blog Post Inspiration
- Health benefits for being vegan/vegetarian etc.
- X easy healthy swaps to make.
- X ideas for healthy lunches.
- Where to shop for the best healthy food.
- How to save money on healthy food.
- Quick healthy meals
- How to make a fakeaway (healthy version of a takeaway)
- Test recommended serving sizes.
Seasonal Content Ideas
- Christmas gift guides for food lovers
- Create a seasonal menu.
- How to create the perfect picnic
- Test out the best recipes for specific seasonal food and share your findings.
- How to can and preserve food.
- Give your own twist on a traditional recipe.
- How to have the perfect BBQ
Next Steps
Now that you’ve finished reading this food content ideas blog post, you have two ideas:
1 – Create your own content calendar & blog post
Use the ideas that I’ve shared in this post to create a content calendar.
You’ll have to tailor the ideas to your own audience to ensure that the content is valuable.
2 – Get support with your content
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I hope this blog post has given you plenty of food content ideas.