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Get out those old cook books and recipes and get creative earning money from your kitchen!

Frozen meals

This is maybe not an easy market to get into, but once you have, it can prove to be lucrative. Browse through your recipe books, prepare the meals, and freeze them. You would need a fair-sized freezer in your kitchen. Packaging must be microwave-able. Meals must LOOK attractive. Keep the parts of the meal separate (meat, rice, and 2 veg). I will never ever buy a frozen stew that looks like a garden splodge.

Soups are good, as they are easy to prepare, freeze well, are tasty and nutritious. An idea is to offer your clients a menu. They order, you make and freeze, they collect their meals and pay. Then don’t just forget about those customers. Make sure you get their phone number or email address, and contact them from time to time to see if they want to order more meals from you, but only do this a few times to save on the cost of communication. If they like your meals they will contact you regularly or even leave a standing daily or weekly order with you.

Pasta

Italians have been making their own pasta for centuries. Why can’t you? Decide on a few pasta variations, and promote them to local stores. Offer them to individuals at their work-place. Sell the pasta at country farm markets and flea markets. Include recipes with your pasta.

Point-of-sale sweet items

As a mother you will know the power of a child’s “Mommy I want a sweet!” at the local store’s check-out point. You will also know the power of the decision to buy something sweet for the kids because they are (were) behaving. The sweets you can make and sell are varied, try any of the following: chocolates, fudge, coconut ice, nougat, toffees, fondant, turkish delight, meringues, or any other sweets you can think of or find in a recipe book. You could sell these sweets at a variety of different places such as shops, farm stalls, flea markets, or to the mothers at your childrens school possibly as homemade sweet party packs. Some school tuckshops sell sweets too, and you can approach many school tuckshops, not just the tuckshop at your own child’s school.

Related articles on our Work at Home Jobs blog:

Selling salad rolls and other rolls at a fleamarket

The making and selling of beverages from home

Determining your selling price of homemade pickled onions

If you really enjoy cooking and baking, and in particular browsing through recipes in cook books, you can consider writing your own recipes to sell as a collection in the form of an ebook, or even as a handmade recipe book – that’s the beauty of working from home and being creative with various forms of crafts and talents – they can often be combined. Also see How to write and sell your own ebook.

You can get a whole bunch (over 50) of recipe ebooks, covering a wide variety of dishes, and can even resell the recipe books if you like, as some come with resale rights. Learn more here

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