Looking for that perfect handmade gift without all the handmade effort? If you’re not like the crazy Berkeley chicks in my book club combing the second hand stores (like all of them) to buy old wool sweaters in order to make their own felt… then read on.
TasteBook lets you build a personal cookbook combining your favorite recipes (and photos) with magazine and cooking site recipes. You choose the cover, invent the title, customize as much as you’d like and voila: a professional-looking cookbook with only the stuff you actually like!
I carefully assembled The Rookie Mom’s TasteBook to combine:
- my favorite go-to family meals that can be made with a baby on hip
- some sneak-away naptime treats (usually in the form of special hot chocolate and trashy TV)
- a few recipes from Whitney’s arsenal of super picky kid faves
- some reader recipes that passed our in-home tests (one-handed nursing mama meatballs — check! organic toddler food — check!)
- and a few great sounding (and great looking!) recipes from sites like Simply Recipes and 101 Cookbooks for kicks.
As a last minute gift
You can buy our TasteBook as is and give it to a rookie mom with love. Boom. Done. Or you can take some time to add a few more of your personal recipes and personal touches.
The last day to order for Christmas with regular shipping is Friday 12/12 but gift certificates are available until the last second.
Win it: TasteBook has agreed to give one lucky reader a free TasteBook and free shipping. Choose ours or make your own. Leave a comment on which TasteBook you’d like to have by Friday 12/12. Winner will be notified on 12/13.
Full disclosure: I used to work for TasteBook. It was my total dream job of close to home, flexible hours, and a super fun product. Please support this business with your holiday dollars.
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I like the “Eat well on a budget” cookbook. This is such a great idea! Instead of recipe cards haphazard all over the place, you can have an actual cookbook full of recipes you KNOW you love!!
What an amazing product! I have decided that one of my new years’ goals will be to put together my own cookbook. That sounds like so much fun. What a great reason to try out breakfast foods, drinks, sides . . . oh, I am getting myself all worked up. While the Rookie Moms cookbook looks great, I would love to be able to put together my own.
I’d love to make my own too–we have some picky eaters in this house!
Oh, that would be awesome! I’d love to make my own cookbook!
I would love to try out yours!
I would love to try yours, partly because I can’t even find the time to look at their website right now. Also because I trust you have done a fine job and I would love it! (Or love to give it to someone else.)
I’m in. I currently have my own recipes in somewhat of an orderly three ring binder but would love the opportunity to make a Tastebook! Thanks.
I have been compiling recipes to make a cookbook for my mother-in-law for Christmas (her mother-in-law has Alzheimer’s and I wanted to preserve some of her favorite recipes before her memory goes…) I would love to be able to put her recipes in a snazzy Tastebook format!
I’d like yours or the eat well on a budget one, but I’d probably make my own with family tradition recipes.
This is about 100% more classy than my ingredient-splattered vinyl 3-ring binder filled with recipes I’ve inherited from relatives and ripped from magazines.
And I could share my recipes with friends? I’m sold.
I’d love the top holiday cookies book. I love to bake cookies and could really use some new recipes! : )
I would love the rookie moms cookbook selection. It would be great to give one of my friends…oh…in seriousness I would keep it to try the recipes (as a soon to be rookie mom) and then share with all my other rookie mom friends!
Wow–these are beautiful! I’d love Healthy Winter Recipes collection. Eat well On a Budget also sounds great. Thanks!
I totally dig the Rookie Moms site (and think I will totally dig the Tastebook site) and it would be super cool if I won the Rookie Moms Tastebook. Like others, I have a hard time figuring out what to cook – and I would love some new ideas.
I would love your tastebook but if I didn’t order that one I would get “Eat well on a budget” cookbook.
Oh my goodness, this is such a great idea! As my due date gets closer (March 1), I’d been thinking of putting together a binder of recipes that DH and I can eat (I have some tricky diet restrictions) to have on hand for when people offer to make us meals. But an actual cookbook would be so much cooler!
I’d make my own with all my family’s fav recipes!
Well I’ve always loved your site, so I shouldn’t be surprised that you where a part of Tastebook. It’s another one of my favorite sites and I love the product. I’ve had it bookmarked forever, but haven’t found the excuse to make one yet.
I think the recipes in the book, “Kids in the Kitchen,” are great. I need super simple.
You already did all the work! I would love your Tastebook. I don’t think I could do better than “one-handed nursing mama meatballs”! Very nice.
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