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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Halex on April 27, 2012, 03:04:12 am
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Which magazines do you subscribe too?
Are you happy with the magazine?
I subscribe to Donna Hay & the kids annual, love these, just renewed.
New subscription BBC delicious, arriving July.
H :)
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I don't subscribe to any.
the only one I read all the time is Super Food Ideas.
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I have a subscription to Super Food Ideas. I've had it for about 4 years now (it's Christmas present keeps getting renewed :)). It is probably one of the best food magazines I've read. I love getting it in the mail each month! The recipes are simple and they are always geared towards seasonal foods and have ideas for upcoming events (eg. Christmas). I also find their articles interesting (always about nutrition, how to use different types of foods etc).
Since getting my TM (only a month ago now), I've been going back through my old favourite editions of the magazine in an attempt to convert them!!
The other good thing about the magazine is that it is part of the taste.com.au website so if I can't remember where the recipe is, I can just search it on their website.
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Well contrary to my New Years Resolution (no more cookbooks or food mags except Donna Hay) I subscribe to Delicious
(that was a freeby though through credit card points reward, so it doesn't count) -very happy with it. Donna Hay and Australian Good Food. I don't subscribe but occasionally get Super Food Ideas. I enjoy a bubble bath, a glass of wine and reading a magazine.
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I subscribe to Masterchef and used to subscribe to Delicious. I buy Super Food Ideas, Australian Good Food and the BBC Good Food as an app as it is way cheaper and on time. I often buy Good Taste and anything I can get my hands on. Oh yes and I regularly buy Feast as I love to read it.
My DH subscribes to Women's Weekly :D :D :D :D :DHe got a free subscription because of buying continence pads for his MUm. :D :D :D
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My DH subscribes to Women's Weekly :D :D :D :D :DHe got a free subscription because of buying continence pads for his MUm. :D :D :D
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How Funny.
I don't feel quite so bad about my subscriptions now.
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I don't subscribe to any but can't remember the last month I didn't buy Super Food Ideas... :-))
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Dish. Is my fav., also Gourmet traveller although this is a bit patchy. In recipes that I like.
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I often pick up Dish too Chookie after you recommended it. Not many newsagents here have it. :'(
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I don't subscribe to any but regularly buy Masterchef, Super Food Ideas, Delicious, Australian Good Food, Feast, BBC Good Food, Recipes+ and just about anything that has any interesting looking dish on the front when I see it. I know, I know, I'm a food magazine addict. I keep telling myself that there is no need to subscribe as I am going to quite buying them. I haven't missed an edition of any of them for months & months. I've been dropping hints to the family that I'd like an iPad for Mother's Day so I can subscribe and do my bit for the environment.
BTW I take the magazines into work when I've finished so others can read them so I'm not just throwing them in the bin.
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I also recycle my magazines to a friend and then a nursing home, after I've removed all the recipes I want. :P
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I also regularly buy Super Food Ideas. Occasionally I will splurge and buy a Donna Hay or Feast magazine if it looks like an issue with lots of good recipes.
I also like home decorating mags too! I used to love Notebook because it was a good mix but they stopped publishing it last year. Shame
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My girls give me magazine subscriptions for different occasions - currently receiving BBC Australian Good Food and Australian Healthy Food Guide. I used to pick up every food magazine I saw in Foodland but I've been a good girl lately and don't get sucked in by a lovely picture on the front cover. Christmas is different though, sometimes I can't help myself and have to buy every Christmas edition of any magazine I see - must stop this habit too :-))
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My girls give me magazine subscriptions for different occasions - currently receiving BBC Australian Good Food and Australian Healthy Food Guide. I used to pick up every food magazine I saw in Foodland but I've been a good girl lately and don't get sucked in by a lovely picture on the front cover. Christmas is different though, sometimes I can't help myself and have to buy every Christmas edition of any magazine I see - must stop this habit too :-))
me too DJ - Christmas magazines - just can't go past them.
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I get BBC Aus Good Food (Christmas pressie from brother and SIL). Love it, my last one looks like an echidna with all the sticky notes poking out the top. :)
Got a funny feeling I might die before I make all the recipes in my "to try" pile! It is rather large.
I was getting the Woolies good taste, but found they started using a lot of pre-packed food and jars of sauces etc.
Glad my SIL made a mistake when she renewed my subscription for this year!
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I have subscriptions to Delicious, Donna Hay, Feast & Masterchef magazines.
A couple were gifts from my OH. Sometimes I pickup some of the other food mags available at the Supermarket, but not every month.
Delicious is my favorite. I like reading Feast magazine, but rarely cook any of the recipes. I don't really like the Masterchef magazine and won't renew the subscription.
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I wasn't over keen on Master Chef either Katie. I often get big bundles of mags from Vinnies or the Salvos - $2.00 for about 10 mags.
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Thank you everyone, love reading to see what is out there. I am an addict too. ;D
H :)
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Just wondering, do many of you keep your magazines? I have about 2 shelves in my bookcase full of my Super Food Ideas magazines but I don't go back to them that often (although I do around Christmas and Easter time to get some inspiration!). I just can't bear to part with them. :-\
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I don't subscribe to any magazines but treated my SIL a subscription to BBC Good Food as a Christmas present.She loves receiving the magazine through the post every month. :)
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I keep my magazines Netstar apart from those I received whilst subscribing to a diabetic magazine. When a friend was diagnosed I gave her my books. I never have time to revisit them though and if I did remember there was a recipe I wanted to do from one of them, I'd never find it :D :D Some people go to bed with a novel or a kindle, a lot of us go to bed with our food magazines and our iPads - those who don't cook would think we're crazy but all of us here know better ;)
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Lol Judy, I was faced with that exact dilemma the other night - good book on my kindle vs reading my newly acquired Quick Fix in the Thermomix. You'll be pleased to know that Quick Fix won!
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Lack of time seems to have cured my addition to food magazines (for the moment anyway). I used to subscribe to Vogue Entertaining and Gourmet Traveller. I can't bear to part with them so they are taking up space in my bookcase. I had to buy a new bookcase from Ikea to house all my cookbooks as well. Problem is, I'm now at the point of stacking my cookbooks two deep. I keep saying that I won't buy any more cookbooks.... My DH bought me "saved by Cake" a coupe of weeks ago, and I ordered Alyce Alexandra's book for my birthday on Wednesday ( it arrived today, in time for my birthday - yay!) oh and I bought Tenia's book at the cooking class last month too. Also, I have another bookcase with cake decorating books in it as they won't fit in my Ikea bookcase. Now, who has that phone number for cookbookaholics anonymous ? Actually, make that just bookaholics anonymous as I haven't mentioned the bookcases full of novels.......
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ES, just confirming your birthday is 2nd May? Have you in my new birthday book ;D
You've got it bad filling whole book cases. My DH relinquished his book space in ours so that I could take it over with my cookbooks, his books went to a fete at Mum's retirement village as he just doesn't read anymore.
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Lol Judy, I was faced with that exact dilemma the other night - good book on my kindle vs reading my newly acquired Quick Fix in the Thermomix. You'll be pleased to know that Quick Fix won!
Good for you Netstar. It is worth reading and picking out some recipes.
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No Judy, I meant I only ordered it on Wednesday (Anzac Day) and it arrived today!
I've squeezed my DH out of most of the bookcases, and I donated a heap of books to the school fete last year.( I also bought more books at the fete too.) Oh well! There are worst addiictions in life
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So when is your birthday then ES, I am totally confused.
Alyce is very quick with her deliveries. I ordered on a Saturday night and received it on the Monday.
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I do not subscribe to any magazines. I am an avid reader tho and spend all day reading - I just can't stop one way or another its just constant. I find magazine subscriptions way too expensive for 5 mins, and there are so many recipes available for free. Having said that I do succumb quite regularly to Woman's Weekly and maybe another trashy mag or two but am always disappointed that there is not a lot in them.
You'll find recipes in a lot of magazines are here (http://food.ninemsn.com.au/) and taste.com.au (http://www.taste.com.au/) is another good site.
Apart from the expense, I hate throwing them out (such a waste of trees and paper) and abhor storing them "just in case".
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I now subscribe to Super food ideas, DonnaHay and Australia good taste electronically ie I get the magazines on my iPad and anything that has been read can be downloaded back to my main computer so it doesn't take up space on my iPad. I love the fact that there are little videos in each magazine showiing step by step instructions and most of the mags have what is called 'cook mode' where the recipes are presented step by step when you swipe the screen. Obviously the magazines take up far less space around the house and I am gradually getting rid of all my old magazines ie those older than 3 years after info through them and cut out or scan recipes that are still useful to me. I also find that a lot of recipes end up on taste.com.au anyway. I'm happy that I can reduce clutter- my DH is certainly happy with that!!
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All milne are kept in piles of publication & date order on the top of my wine rack. No-one is allowed to dump stuff there, LOL.
My bedroom floor around my bed is normally laden with cookbooks & cooking magazines. I change them every few days. I enjoying reading in bec.
Nothing like a good cookbook for a plane flight
I tossed up whether to have them on my ipad but I like to have the hard copy.
H :)
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The only magazine I subscribe to is Healthy Food Guide. I did have a lot of old Recipes+ and Super Food Ideas magazines, but I rarely looked at them. They were full of a lot of recipes I wouldn't cook without making extremely vast alterations. So I ripped out a few recipes, stuck them in a folder, and recycled the rest of the magazines.
I used to work in a newsagency, and at the end of each week/month/quarter when all the old magazines were pulled off the shelves and replaced with current editions, staff were allowed to take the old magazines home. I must say I was never impressed with Masterchef, Donna Hay, Gourmet Traveller, or a number of other foody magazines. I often threw them in the recycling without finishing them. Glad I didn't pay for them!
But I love my Healthy Food Guides. I read them cover-to-cover and then re-read them over and over again, reminding myself of all the little tips to make my cooking healthier. If you hadn't guessed already, I am very health-conscious ;)
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Naughty me, i have subscribed to Delicious magazine. I bought it in Sydney & loved it.
Thats 3 subscriptions, I think that will do for a while.
H :)
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The thing I don't like about subscriptions is that you rarely get the freebies that are sometimes on the magazine.
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My mum once brought me a 12 month subscription to a magazine for a Christmas present. Was such a great present cause it lasted a whole year :)
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I couldnt get any of these until i got my ipad.. Now i can subscribe or just buy most of them and love how you can easily buy past issues if you want...i do love an actual magazine but i think its just a question of getting used to them electronically.. Definately sa es on piles of magazines as i dont like throwing them away...
As for cookbooks i have three bookshelves full and counting and there is just no hope for me..
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Is this really tight? I actually borrow all food mags from the library. The most recent copies can't be borrowed but can be looked at in the library. All I do is borrow the month for the year prior so all the ingredients will be in season. Our local library has all sorts of mags. I can read about $20 worth for free!
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I stopped subscribing to magazines as such a couple of years ago. I buy some for my Kindle, from time to time but usually just go to the web sites such as BBC Good Food (http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/), Saveur (http://www.saveur.com/recipes.jsp), etc., (I subscribe online to Cooks Illustrated but you can get some of the America's Test Kitchen recipes for free)
I used to subscribe to many food magazines. In the magazine section in my storage building I have 45 years of Gourmet magazine, the same number of Sunset magazines (only distributed in the western U.S. but subscriptions sent everywhere).
I've boxes full of Saveur, Good Housekeeping, BBC Good Food, Sainbury's, Southern Living, Martha Stewart Living, etc., etc., etc., many of which I never opened and some are still in the plastic wrappers that were added in more recent years.
I do subscribe to one quarterly food magazine: Culture, which is just about cheese. It has recipes for making cheese (like this one) (http://www.culturecheesemag.com/recipes/make_cheese/winter_2011/cheese_curds) as well as cooking with cheese and has an extensive list of cheese shops in the U.S. (listed by state), Canada, three in New Zealand and six in the U.K.
Some people arrange vacations around cheese "destinations" and often wine and cheese trips are advertised in the magazine, although I've never been on one, I have visited a few cheese shops listed when I have been in a particular region.
I am rather a cheese fan(atic) as is my daughter and her family and I pass on interesting articles to her.
Not all the recipes or articles are available online which is why I subscribe. More are available now but this is one magazine that I like to hold in my hands...
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I love Gourmet Traveller - very happy I can now get it online. We also have Jamie Oliver mag in Uk - but I don't often buy it - is it sold in Aust?
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Is the cost for online subscription for mags the same as the hard copes?
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Generally cheaper Tp
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brumington l borrow mags from the library too it saves soooo much money
and if l like a part l will scan the page
leave more money to spend on us
also l borrow books from the library that l think l would like to buy
if they have it in there system
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What a great idea visiting the library
I will pick up & look at last years Dona Hay magazine for each relevant month.
H :)
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I think I'll do the same too. No need to spend money when it's there for free. Might have some problems walking past the Christmas issues like JD but will try hard. I am trying to cut down on books that we buy and have been trying to talk DH into a kindle or Ipad for that reason. I usually buy a Lonely Planet guide for each country that we visit but did borrow one from the library recently instead of buying one for a short trip.