Small Food Business To Start From Home

Are you struggling to make both ends meet with your current pay check? How about planning your retirement early and creating a passive income so you don't end up cramming to build your funds? Do you love to cook and have passion for making delectable treats and building your own bakery seems to be just too expensive to achieve at the moment?

All businesses start small. Why not start a small food business from home?

Starting a business is not a walk in the park but it shouldn't be difficult too especially if you already have the knack for cooking or baking. I have some friends who started selling their baked goodies and home-cooked meals part time to their colleagues and friends until they finally decided to quit work and do the whole thing full time. If they can, why can't you?

Below are some simple ideas for a small food business to start at home if you have spare time or even full time.


Healthy Home-Cooked Meals

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In the Philippines, it is very popular to delivery home-cooked meals to office workers who do not have time to prepare their own meals. The delivered meals can be for breakfast, lunch or snack.

You can over various meals for different clients and you can up the ante by preparing healthy cooked meals that are not oily nor fatty. This will be extra popular for healthy-conscious eaters.


Baked treats

If you love to bake and you've a proven record of baking up a storm of delicious treats, then offer your products to small coffee shops, create an online site for others to order your baked goods.


Candies, jams and jellies

Other people are sweet tooth and would love to buy sweet goodies prepared from home using natural ingredients. Make your own candies, jams or jellies and packaged them creatively using beautiful mason jars or any canning jars for added effect.  You can include biscuits and cookies on the side for jams and jellies.


Goodies in bottles

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This sumptuous treat is becoming very popular because they come in cute, small jars and sometimes with wooden spoon and is easily consumed without fuss.


Native delicacies

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Filipinos love to eat the native delicacies our grandparents used to feed us while we were young. It brings back lovely memories of traditional get-togethers of families and friends during fiestas, Noche Buena, and other special events.


Frozen delights

Several well-known companies are offering their services through distributorship. They allow their frozen goods to be distributed and sold by homeowners and small grocery owners to be a part of their regular merchandise. You can avail of this if you like to augment your income.

If you took up cooking lessons in TESDA, you may prepare your own frozen delights such as longanisa, tocino, ice-candy to sell to your family, friends and neighbours.

Helping A Friend In Business

I am starting to hone my skills in marketing because one day, you'll never know when I will need the skill to come handy. Of lately, I have been helping a friend market her products and so far, I have yet to understand how the earning scheme works to be able to convince a lot of interested parties to really sign up.

One thing that I thought of is making presentations or sending out teasers in the form of flyers or brochures to others so we can tap their awareness about the business and the products. If this happens, all I need is scout an affordable wholesale brochure printing company to produce the flyers or brochures.

It's very interesting that I am getting my hands on marketing. I'm not really that savvy with the techniques and closing sales but it won't hurt to learn a few tips and tricks now so that when I finally venture on my own business as my next source of income, I may be able to apply what I have learned.

A Dream To Change The World

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We all have dreams. Most times, those dreams propel us to strive harder knowing that they can help us, our family and even the society in a larger scale.

I am one of the millions who dream not just for myself but I dream big because I know, when my dreams come true, I may be able to make a change in this world. My tiny voice will be heard because I will be a positive change that our world needs.

Sometimes, it is very frustrating to struggle and stumble many times just to get to where you want to be. And oftentimes, the road is not paved without obstacles. However, there are movements out there who can help us get there and one of them is A Billion Entrepreneurs.

A Billion Entrepreneurs is a movement that aims to instill the entrepreneurial spirit to everyone and to the generations to come. It strives to give a new meaning to "taking responsibilities for outcomes" which now meant to be responsible for one's success, own happiness and purpose in life no matter what the situation one is in.

At this stage where I can find new meaning to my purpose and to find means to succeed in life so I can make a difference, it is best to refer to notable resources of A Billion Entrepreneurs.  The resources they have including the movie found in www.ABEthemovie.com can provide that stimulus to have that "can do" attitude in business. Having said that, armed with the information, inspiration and tips from real-life entrepreneurs in the film is a great motivator to make things happen not just for ourselves but for the society as a whole.

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We all want to improve our lives and those of others. Watching the movie can give you a lot of information to start fulfilling your dreams. Aim to have that Freedom, Security and Success in your life. Support the ABE The Movie. Start living your dream.

Online Business

My friend and I are in serious discussion on putting up an online store back in the Philippines. We have gone through several brain-storming sessions already on the best small business to start while still holding our day jobs. The one idea that really stands out is the online business of buy and sell which is big hit in the Philippines.

We wanted to start something that would involve small capital but higher yield. I told her that food would be the number one bet and next was clothing and beauty products. We all know how the Filipino yuppies this generation are with regards to overall appearance. The only problem is, how to get the supply. I want to sell original stuff and will not compromise on cheap and fake merchandise.

I hope this materializes soon. I know there are plenty of things to consider like splitting the costs, shipping of merchandise, what to sell, who to entrust the accounting of money flow, who to trust on monitoring the website, any fees to pay for permits, etc. It is a lot of work so we need to consider all those things before we go ahead on this venture.