Homemade for Sale, Second Edition: How to Set Up and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780865719699)

Updated and expanded! The authoritative guide to conceiving and launching your own home-based food business - from idea to recipe to final product.

Follow your dream to launch a food business from your home and join the booming movement of food entrepreneurs.

Fully updated and expanded, Homemade for Sale, Second Edition is the authoritative guide to launching a successful food enterprise from your kitchen. It covers everything you need to get cooking for your customers, providing a clear road map to go from ideas and recipes to owning a food business. Contents includes:

• Product development and testing
• Understanding state cottage food and food freedom laws and advocacy
• Independently tested recipes for non-hazardous food products, including frostings
• Marketing and developing your niche
• Step-by-step guides for packaging, labeling, and creating displays
• Structuring and running your business while planning for the future
• Bookkeeping and financial management
• Managing liability, risk, and government regulations
• Avoiding burnout through self-care and time management
• Profiles of successful food entrepreneurs.

More people than ever are demanding real food made with real ingredients by real people, and you have the freedom to earn by starting a food business from home. No capital needed, just good recipes and enthusiasm, plus enough business know-how found in the pages of Homemade for Sale to be a success. Everything else is probably already in your kitchen. Best of all, you can start right now!

AWARDS

• SILVER 2023 Living Now Book Awards: How-To / DIY