HOW TO BETTER BAKE and SAVE MONEY : eBay Guides

I have found that for me most recipes are simply templates of a recipe that I can make better with a few simple variations so it is still the recipe...but BETTER. I am a local Farmers Market vendor and sell organic baking most of the time. This started because I used to sell brand new dvds that I bought using a wholesaler so I could buy in bulk for maximum profit, and the baking was so that I'd be able to attract people to come to my table. This worked very well, one week I sold 43 loaves of organic specialty breads: Banana, Banana Walnut, Pumpkin Nut, Pumpkin, Blueberry Walnut, and Cranberry Orange at $6 a loaf, I offered tasters of each as well. I only sold 3 dvds that day and that really made me realize how much people want food rather than dvds so I began branching out and trying new recipes from award winning recipes by several publications and "fixing" them to be BETTER than the award winners. This I accomplished per recipe because I found that depending on the recipe, some of them didn't turn out as well as the award winner, either too soft or the fact that I didn't have all day to wait while an entire cookie sheet cooled completely so I would stick it in the freezer for about 5 minutes and go from there, icing and decorations. Last week I made  Betty Crocker's award winning Snow-Capped Gingersnaps except I used the freezer to cool them down, iced them on one side with cream cheese frosting, and used the freezer again to harden the icing so it wouldn't smudge when I wrapped them up to sell. I sold them for $1/plate of 3 cookies and I had a taster. I almost sold all of them. At the same time, I made Betty Crocker's award winning orange Scones made with orange juice and even with tasters and decorated icing, I ended up giving them away. As well, BC's AW recipe for Chai-Spiced Bread, I sold only 1 of them for $3. That was a very difficult recipe to make.

I'm just a humble baker with an archaic Philips stand mixer that I can't even find replacement parts for it anywhere on the internet. It's basically obselete and all the money I receive goes into the bank because I'm not very well off, not even close. In fact, I am close to the poverty level and so when my meagre food budget runs out in the 2nd week of the month, I have to find a better way to add dollars to my emptied bank account thru baking or crafts of stuff I already have. My child is 16 mths old and thank heavens WalMart didn't fix their price for bottle liners because in Canada, there's a Scanning Code of Practice that if the scanned price is higher than the shelf price, I get the item for free or up to $10 off the totalled bill.. So, now I have 2 boxes of 100 bottle liners that I didn't need to pay over $20 for both of them. They handily give customers CHECK PRICE scanners thruout the floor so if something isn't what it says on the shelf, make sure you inform the clerk at the register that because of the scanning code practice in Canada, you get that item for free if under $10 or up to $10 off your total, if they don't believe you, it is printed on a sticker at each till, and you can read it to them. This applies at every store in Canada. HAHAHA The joke is on the stores that don't take the time to price their inventories correctly. In fact, I believe the USA has a similar practice for scanning.