Offer Description:
Better Homes and Gardens has a free online application that allows you create your own cookbook. You can use any of their recipes and/or your own recipes. You can customize just about everything but the cover with your own text and pictures. There are five cover designs to choose from.
How to get the free offer:
Visit the Better Homes and Gardens
My Cook Book pages. If you are not already a member of BHG.com you will need to register. You then use the online forms to add text, recipes, and pictures to your cookbook. The cookbook is saved online as you create it. When you are finished you can download the cookbook PDF to your computer and distribute it any way you wish as long as you don't charge for it.
Offer Availability:
This is a free online application so it is available worldwide. It seems to work well in both Firefox and Internet Explorer in Windows. The site uses JavaScript for the application so it should work fine with just about any browser and operating system.
Who is offering this free service?:
The free cookbook creation service is offered by the Better Homes and Gardens (BHG) website.
How much effort is required to create a free cookbook?:
The online application is easy to use and you can put as much or as little effort into it as you wish. Obviously, the more custom text you add and the more effort you put into selecting recipes, the better the final product will be.
What are the risks in requesting the offer?:
BHG.com, while a reputable site, will send you lots of email unless you tell them not to. When you register you have the option to choose various newsletters. There is also a page of offers from CoolSavings with a number of offers pre-checked. Be sure to use the “uncheck all” option to turn these off unless you really want them. You will probably also want to access the customer service area and edit your email preferences to opt-out of their default email notices.The BHG privacy policy also states that they will sell your mailing address to other reputable companies (most magazine publishers do this). If you don't want them to share your mailing addres you need to read the privacy policy and send a letter to the specified address to opt-out.
Where can I get a good deal on good old fashioned standard printed cookbook?:
If you want a nifty ready-made honest to goodness printed cookbook you can find a good deal
here.
