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Turn your recipes into a fundraising success. Yes, family style personalized cookbooks can be a tremendous fundraiser for your organization or charity. Whether it is for a school PTA, a church group, or for a charity, these popular cookbooks will help you reach your goals.What Is So Special About Creating A Family Style Cookbook For A Fundraiser?Cookbooks have been helping people raise money for decades. One company of which I am aware has been doing it since 1947, and is still going strong. That fact alone proves that cookbooks are a sure-fire fundraiser. People are generally anxious to purchase a professional looking cookbook that is filled with the best recipes from the best cooks in your club or community. They tend to be more than just another cookbook, though. Since the names of the contributors are with each recipe, it becomes a bit of history as well. Family heirlooms, if [Read More..]

The recipe for a successful fundraiser is personalized cookbooks. (Yes, the pun was intended.) It's true, though. For years, organizations, clubs, schools and charities have sold professional looking family cookbooks filled with cherished recipes from their members, friends and neighbors. I can personally vouch for the popularity of the cookbooks. A small fraternal group to which I belong created just such a cookbook, and each year we order more copies and sell each one. The demand seems to remain the same.How To Create A CookbookThe process is simple once you find a reputable cookbook publisher. The publisher should provide guidelines for you. They will suggest the number of recipes needed, provide examples for different layouts and styles, as well as advertising and marketing tips. The guide for one of the most popular cookbook publishers is categorized like this: [Read More..]

Busy, busy, busy. Today's schedules and fast paced, multi-tasking lifestyles make it difficult for most of us to find the time needed to prepare and serve balanced, nutritious and tasty meals. I am no exception. Since I tend to be a problem-solver by nature, I decided to gather a collection of quick, fast and easy low-carb recipes so I could save time in the kitchen but still stick to my low-carb lifestyle.I expected it would take quite awhile to get enough recipes together to make a difference. However, thanks to Dana Carpender's newest low-carb cookbook my collection has grown overnight!15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender (Fair Winds Press, 2003) gave my collection a huge boost. From the introduction, I found that the entire purpose of this book is to provide a cookbook filled with recipes that take a maximum of 15 minutes to make-and that includes prep time. Sound intriguing? [Read More..]