Hi. I'm Matt, and I LOVE food!

I love making food. I love eating food. And I love sharing GREAT food!

Did I mention I love food???

I love food so much that I decided to share my love for it with all of you! So welcome to Fat Matt's Food Club!

My goal for this site is to host the best recipe sharing groups on the internet!

I plan on achieving that goal doing 3 things. First is that all of my fan groups will be hidden so that they can't be found in a search unless you're a member. And because these groups are hidden, they are invite only by default which is the 2nd way I'm striving to make my groups the best on the web. Having my groups invite only is a great way for me to ensure that spammers, scammers, porn bots, trolls and other bad actors stay OUT of my groups, since if you're a member of any other online groups, especially on Facebook, that is a really huge problem currently!

Another level of security that I'm taking in order to ensure that my groups remain top notch is that I am going to charge a small weekly price of admission to join. Now I know that there will be some of you out there that won't like that very much, but let's consider it for a moment. Would you rather go and join all of the different free groups out there that are all completely overrun with garbage bots and other nonsense or would you rather pay a very small price so that you can actually join a group that focuses on the topic that the group is about? Plus you do have to remember that old adage, "You get what you pay for." Free stuff is not always the best stuff! Also the price that we ask for to join just one of our groups is very small anyway - probably less than half of what you would pay for a crappy cup of coffee at your local coffeehouse. Or better yet, it's probably more comparable to what your normal daily newspaper would cost, and I can practically guarantee that the content that is posted in my groups will look MUCH more appetizing, not to mention maybe healthier, than reading all of the crap coming out of your daily rag!

I have fan groups setup across 11 (yes, 11!) different social media and chat platforms currently - Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, MeWe, GroupMe, Viber, Skype and Quora. There may be more added in the future (Most likely Twitter/X, but it looks like I'll have to upgrade my account first before doing that. BOOOO!!!!) but I'm not sure yet. If you happen to know of a good platform that I could setup a group on, then by all means feel free to shoot me an email. Also, you're more than welcome to join as many of my groups as you wish although it's most likely each group will have it's own content that will be exclusive to it. But unfortunately, with all great things, there have to be some limits. So I also have listed below some ground rules that everyone will need to follow:

Ground Rules

• These groups are English language only groups - Although anyone from around the world can be more than welcome to sign up to our groups, the vast majority of the target audience for these groups will be English speaking, so please make sure your posts are in English.
• You must be at least 18 years of age to join - There will be some times (Although I'm sure it won't be many at all) in my groups that some of the content will be of an adult oriented nature, so to be on the safe side, I'm not allowing anyone under 18 years of age to join my groups.
• There is a ZERO tolerance policy towards trolling, bullying, or harassment - I'm actually not anticipating this to be too much of a problem since I do charge an admission fee to join my groups, but since there probably are some people out there who have reached that very special level of stupid that actually get off on spending their hard earned money (albeit not that much) just so that they can bully and harass people, I'm going to post it here anyway. Anyone caught deliberately trolling, bullying, or harassing people in my groups will be immediately and permanently banned. No exceptions! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!
• Keep it on topic! - I run groups discussing our favorite recipes as well as our love of food in general, so let's try to keep it that way, shall we? Trying to post anything not related to that will most likely be deleted, and posting anything that could be deemed in violation of a platform's TOS (ie porn, cruelty, hate, extreme violence, etc) as well posting anything political or religious will led to an immediate and permanent ban.
• Try to keep it clean(ish) - I totally don't mind a few curse words mentioned here and there (We all say them anyway), but posting an expletive filled rant about how shitty your day at work was today probably wouldn't be a good idea, so don't do it (Plus it's most likely that most people won't care anyway.). If anything, if you're having a bad day, you might just be better off enjoying some of the wonderful food being posted in our groups! 😁
• My groups are judgement free zones! - Yes, there will be people in our groups that will have different food tastes than you do. Please be respectful of that. Just because you have a peanut allergy or just don't like peanuts in general doesn't mean you should berate or bully someone who posts a recipe with peanuts in it. If you see something in the group that you don't like, please do not start any unnecessary drama by doing that. Just kindly move on and don't say anything.
• No Buy/Sell/Trade posts are allowed along with no promotions/crowdfunding/e-begging - This all has to do with with trying to keep scammers and spammers out of my groups. Plus since my groups target a worldwide audience, allowing things like this wouldn't be very practical anyway.
• No hijacking of posts. - You know how some people like to try to change the subject of someone's post by posting their own unrelated content in the comments? Yeah, that's not cool, so don't do it. You'd be much better off just doing the right thing by creating your own post.
• NEVER ask to become an admin or moderator! - Doing so will lead to an immediate and permanent ban. If we feel like you're worthy of being a moderator, I will invite you to become one.
• No PMing of other members unless they specifically ask for it. - Should hopefully be self explanatory. This is, again, to cut down on the scammers and spammers that might try to sneak their way into my groups.
• Absolutely under NO circumstances is ANYONE allowed to invite people into my groups! - If you know someone (friend or family member or whoever) who wants to join my groups, please refer them to this website so that they can sign up. Inviting people into my groups without them paying will lead to immediate and permanent bans for both the inviter and the invitee, so don't do it!

So once again, I would like to thank you very much for your interest in joining my groups! If you do decide to join, I look forward to seeing you! The links to sign up to my groups will be down below. Also most definitely follow us on our free social media accounts, the links to which are above. And if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, then please don't hesitate to send me an email using our contact form. Thanks again!

Also if you think that doing something like this would be a great side hustle for you to pursue (You can most definitely check out my music group while you're at it!), then most definitely shoot me an email, and I'll be more than happy to help you get something like this set up for you!