What's Cooking in the Food Market?
by Claudia Strasbaugh
Is this economy chewing down your income?
Why not look toward the food market to earn more Writing cash. It is easier then you may think. Outlined here are eight simple easy rules.
1. Types Of Food Writing
During my writing experiences which have included all manner of topics I've found the Dinner On A Dollar.org food newsletter www.dinneronadollar.org
emphasizing price, nutrition, and taste, never goes out of style. So, regardless of the national recession, take heart. You too can research grocery prices then look for healthy recipes. Low or fat-free recipes are less popular then once was the case. Price and nutrition information still reigns supreme when it comes to best writing subjects.
2. Special Health Issues
Addressing special needs becomes a somewhat more limited audience but among people with special needs it is super easy to build a loyal reader fan club. Top most sought after article requests are those to assist people in preparing meals for diabetes victims, hold the sugar. Then followed by less fattening foods since obesity is of growing national concern. And the latest rapidly expanding trend is speciality needs for HBP (high blood pressure) sufferer food preparation. This requires simple basic understanding in the use of spices and herbs that add flavor to salt-free dishes. Sodium content control is critical for those with blood pressure problems.
3. Everyday's a Holiday
In the cooking world, 'special days' abound. Holiday information is always welcome. Relying on it we as writers can be timely throughout the year. Recipes rich in necessary vitamins are extremely acceptable when fixing foods for Easter, St. Patrick Day, October Fest, and of course New Year celebrations. These seasonal events often demand special occasion meals rather then daily food fare. Magazine, Newspaper and even Websites need all they can get. Holiday cooking tips and tricks jazz up any calendar. Food preparation issues are just as reader-welcome in May as November. Low-calorie dishes, of any type that encouraging readers to improve their bodies are a buying publisher's dream..
When you are submitting do remember Magazines need fairly long lead time. Most plan 3 months ahead of publishing dates, but local newspapers are a quick market.
4. Experiment With Recipes, Develop Your Own Trends.
Food editors depend on us as Writers to come up with fresh new ideas. These are the birth of trends in the publishing world. If you have delicious family recipes, try preparing some in your own kitchen with a new twist, even if it's just lemon zest or ground dried bay leaf. Or why not add a bit of fresh basis. Mine is most popular this year. Develop five to six recipes featuring a specific modern taste. Perhaps your family has great recipes relying on ever popular chocolate. These make excellent articles for Easter, Valentines Day, and even Christmas.
5. Notebook Recipes Help With Research
It is smart to keep a loose leaf notebook you can always add to. Accurate recipe experiment accounts track overall records of your research. That way you have at hand data you need, facts available at a glance. The benefit of loose-leaf is being able to reorganize as you change ingredients of dishes, and you can alter book entries organizing by date or category.
6. Know The Food Market.
Food related publishers have unique needs and each is uncommonly different. If you develop simple-to-prepare or inexpensive main dish recipes, look to food markets along those lines. There is usually demand for gourmet recipes. Food Gourmet Magazines are a great income source for Writers. Today with the economy in the dull drums food shopping deals are in greater demand. .
Don't over look what parents want their children to learn from publications like Children's Highlights, Jack and Jill, Clubhouse plus other pubs who love healthy food articles for children. Good family camp-out recipes are much sought after, especially during summer vacation months. Those camping publications make excellent sources for Writer revenue..
7. Read More, Study Food Ads
It pays to be in the know. Read food price ads and watch for food coupons so you can stay abreast of what meal planners are interested in. Marketers pay a lot for research before printing up these offers. Smart Writers take advantage of those efforts without themselves incurring extra costs. Today's food sales is next week's recipe ingredients. You need to know what cooks are buying, also what they are not, defending on price. After all, food is the second largest chunk of family budget costs.
8. Pay Special Attention to Main Dishes
Main Dishes are the heart of any meal, restaurant owners know this. You may notice that their menus are made up of fantastic ad copy for main dishes. Good menus read as yummy meal advertisement copy. Ads always surrounds the center of a meal. Restaurants rely of descriptions as well as photos of foods that deliver mouth watering taste. I frequently take my notebook with me when going out to eat. By jotting down info read on menus using phrases like, "Delicate tender garden carrots in velvety butter sauce," or, "Extra tender sirloin sizzled to perfection," and "Silky rich and oh-so-chocolate mousse," I come away with ways to water the mouths of magazine readers. Menus keep food writers in touch with ways the food industry sells. Writers can capitalize on that.
So, do consider the food market as a good means of generating Writer revenue. Is there a better tasting way to pick up extra income?
(c) Strasbaugh