If you love to cook and spoil people with your scrumptious creations, then this yummy list will be for you 🤩🥗🥘🌮
#1 – Turn your Home into a Micro Restaurant
If you live in a tourist-rich area and love to cook, you can monetize that skill by offering so-called “food experiences”.
You could turn your home into a “micro restaurant” and host travelers from around the world who love meeting locals and learn about different cuisines.
Very popular are also cooking classes and food tours to your favorite local hotspots.
The following apps make it easy to connect – and get paid for your passion – while meeting interesting people and making new friends:
Offer Cooking Classes:
#2 – On-Demand Cooking
You can also get bookings for local dinner parties and events – or offer cooking classes – on the following sites. Most accept amateur gourmet chefs:
#3 – Meal Delivery Service
Many people are too busy to cook, but would love to get good, healthy meals delivered to their door.
A friend recently mentioned how he had tried to start the ketogenic diet, but found it difficult and time consuming to get all the proper ingredients. Plus, he didn’t enjoy cooking much.
To solve his dilemma, he put up an ad for a local keto expert to cook and deliver meals for him every day and quickly found a local lady who knew the diet well. They agreed that she would pre-cook a weekly supply for him that he could store in his freezer and just heat up every day.
He loved it! – and there are many more like him…
Whether it’s keto or vegan or any other trending diet, there will be plenty of people in your local area who would love to have someone just cook it for them – and pay a premium price for that luxury.
You can list yourself on:
Local Newspapers & Boards
#4 – Sell your Creations Locally
Localvore connects local producers, restaurants and chefs with food lovers who want to support the local foodie scene.
If you grow organic veggies, bake delicious bread or make gourmet jams, you can connect with customers through this platform.
To reach a larger customer base beyond your local region, you can sell online at:
#5 Selling Recipes & Tips
Selling your recipes and cooking tips can be a fun extra income source and help spread your name – especially, if you run a food blog, Youtube channel or Instagram page.
Professional looking photos are key here. Food photography is a well paid specialty and you need to either learn it yourself or hire a food photographer. Not just for recipes, but also for any other food related content you create and items or services you sell.
Another option is to hire a recipe writer on Fiverr or Upwork. Recipe writing is an art and requires a lot of specific detail, but there are plenty of freelancers to choose from and many offer food photography as part of the gig – in some cases, even video.
Numerous food blogs and magazines accept submissions for guest posts – either recipes or tips – and quite a few of them are paid ($10-20 per recipe usually). Here are a few examples, but there are many more.
(Cuisine pays $100 for solving common cooking problems)
To see what a particular publication/magazine pays per article, visit this site:
For more tips on landing guest posts on bigger blogs and magazines, you can check out this resource by 8 figure blogger Jon Morrow. It has made all the difference in my writing & business career and any of my students have taken it as well and are all raving. Also includes a “Big Black Book” with direct contact info to editors of 103 top magazines and blogs, incl. Huffington Post, Lifehacker and many more.
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You can also sell your articles in Facebook groups that connect content creators with bloggers who are interested in buying. Join as many as you can, respect the rules and offer your content. Here are two examples to get you started:
Pinterest Friendly Content for Bloggers
Etsy allows you to sell recipes in your shop as an add-on.
Aaaand…
Recipe contests can be fun, earn you some money and help grow your following:
#6 – Teach Kids Healthy Cooking
Another franchise opportunity and a very rewarding one:
Giving you an opportunity to help fight child obesity and get children excited about healthy habits.
As a Healthy Hands Cooking Instructor you will run your own local franchise business offering healthy cooking classes to local children.
The company has partnered with Nick Jr’s Butterbean Cafe as well as 100+ community partners all around the country who support the effort by providing a clean space for the classes and promote the classes to their audience.
Healthy Hands Cooking describes itself as a “cooking instructor online training program”. However, it offers a lot more than just cooking classes. You are given a blueprint to start and run your own business, complete with all the necessary backend tools (website, payment processing, marketing tools, etc.) to make your new venture a success.
Ongoing training and a vibrant peer community are part of the fun.
You don’t need to be an expert cook or experienced instructor. An online training course will teach you everything you need to know and you can complete it at your own pace from your computer.
In addition to cooking and nutrition instructions, you’ll receive guidance on proper licensing, permits, background checks, food safety, marketing and more.
#7, 8, 9 – Food Blogger, Youtuber, IGer
Cooking and anything related to healthy food and specific diets is one of the most lucrative fields for any content creator. Be it a blog, Youtube channel or Instagram.
Of course, it’s also one of the most competitive, so just putting out a blog and hoping for the best, will do nothing.
There are specific strategies for each platform that have proven to work and can help newbies grow quickly – even with all the competition. This is something you need to learn from a pro or you will just waste a lot of time creating content that no one will ever see – and then give up in frustration.
Running a blog, channel or Instagram page is a business and it’s important to be clear about that.
You are learning a new profession that comes with a learning curve and quite a bit of time investment, especially in the beginning. You are “going back to school” so to speak and you want to take it just as seriously.
With that mindset in place, you can absolutely grow a following on these platforms and start monetizing within a few months (often even sooner).
Monetization comes from selling your products (ebooks, courses, services, etc.) as well sponsorships and affiliate marketing (= you get a referral fee when recommending a product).
Once your blog, channel or IG page has an engaged following and gets a lot of consistent traffic, things get a lot easier and some of it will turn into passive income.
Here are several excellent training resources to get you started, all created by 6 and 7 figure earners with thousands of successful students and active Facebook support groups to help you along the way and network with fellow students:
Blogging
SassyZenGirl’s FREE Blogging Course (Part 1 of SassyZenGirl’s Blogging Boot Camp).
👉These bloggers turned their 2 blogs into 100K/month using Pinterest traffic:
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Youtube
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Foundr’s Legendary Course that has taken many new businesses to 7 and 8 figures in just a few months through the power of Influencer Marketing and building a strong presence and following on the Gram!
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#10 – Create Online Courses
Robert G. Allen of “Nothing Down” famously said: “I made millions with real estate, but I made hundreds of millions teaching it.”
You can create an online course on any topic under the sun and find a hungry audience, so this applies to pretty much any skill or interest you might have.
First, you need to build an engaged following though, so you’ll have someone to sell to.
Online courses are usually priced in the $97 to $997 range. Some even higher. Selling a high ticket item to a complete stranger who has never heard of you, is very difficult unless you are a very experienced marketer.
However, an audience that knows you, loves your content and trusts your recommendations, will love to learn more in-depth tips and strategies from you – even at a premium price.
You can then build out “sales funnels” that allow you to mostly automate the process and turn it mostly into passive income.
Another great way to build a following – actually, by far, the fastest way, is self-publishing on Amazon. Literally within a few weeks – as soon as you successfully publish your first book:
#12 – Publish Cook Books
The absolute fastest way to grow a following and start monetizing your passions, hobbies or interests.
Cook books are among the most popular (and lucrative) non fiction books on Amazon!
IF you learn how to sell – and keep selling long term.
See an in-depth beginner guide in this blog post.
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#13 – Start a Cooking eCom Store
A cooking related Shopify store, can be another popular option to monetize your cooking skills and grow a business around it.
Key is finding popular products – either sourcing from AliExpress (that’s called “drop shipping”) or print-on-demand platforms (mugs, pillows, T-Shirts, etc) like Teelaunch or Gearbubble.
The key success factors for any eCom store are:
- Picking winning products
- An effective way to drive traffic to your store (aka, “Marketing”)
- Building a loyal customer base of repeat buyers that you can keep marketing to => mailing list
Not rocket science, but you want to learn from successful sellers and not reinvent the wheel, getting nowhere.
Here is a free training by 8-figure seller Kevin David to show you how it all works:
