FAQs--A Message From Kati

Q. What is the Recipe of the Month Club?
A. As I work on the sequel to Fix, Freeze, Feast, I’m offering limited access to some of my newest recipes. These freezer friendly recipes also are designed to use a common warehouse club ingredient(s). Each recipe is tested by my family and the family of my testers.

Q. When are recipes available?
A. New recipes are available on the first Friday of the month.

Q. Will there be only one recipe available at a time?
A. That’s right. When April’s recipe is posted on the first Friday of April, the recipe posted in March will no longer be available.

Q. Where can I buy previously posted recipes?
A. I’m sorry you missed them! Recipes are not repeated for at least one year, and probably longer since I have developed so many new ones. If you see something that sounds good, it may make sense to buy it so you don’t have to wait.

Q. How much does each recipe cost?
A. I charge $2.99 for each recipe ($2.60 for the recipe + $0.39 for PayPal service charge). From time to time, I will feature a free recipe of the month also.

Q. How quickly are recipes delivered?
A. Once you purchase a recipe, it will be emailed to your e-mail box shortly after the transaction is completed. Formerly, I said I'd had deliver them, but they are now going out automatically. I you don't receive am email with the file attached after a few hours, please contact me and I'll email it to you directly.

Q. What file format do you use for recipes?
A. Recipes are in Adobe .pdf format. Expect 2 pages. The first page is the recipe itself. The second page is the label template.

Q. Do I have to become a registered member of the forum to purchase recipes?
A. No, guests on the site can purchase recipes also. But if you want to give me feedback or chat with others about recipes, please register. I don’t sell names or emails and will not allow other commercial uses of the site. I’ll try my best to moderate the forum against spammers and inappropriate posts too.

Q. Can I share the recipes with my friends and family?
A. Yes! Your referrals are the best compliment and I appreciate them. Feel free to forward the recipe file via email or print it to share with friends. Don’t forget to tell them they can find more recipes like it in Fix, Freeze, Feast too!

Q. Can I enter the recipes into an online recipe site (such as SparkPeople, Recipezaar, Allrecipes, etc)? Or post your recipes to a forum, my blog, Facebook, or other wesites?
A. Please, don’t because when you register on these online sites, you are guaranteeing that the material you’re posting (in this case my recipe) are “original,” ie., your property. Sometimes those site agreements will explicitly state that members are prohibited from posting anything that is not their property and that might violate the copyright of someone else.

Some sites even go further than that! Because they state that whatever you post, you are granting the site owners the right to use it however they want without having to come back and ask your permission. Tricky, huh!

The SparkPeople Terms and Conditions provide an example of what I mean. Here’s what it says about user generated content, “you hereby grant to SparkPeople a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to reproduce, distribute, transmit, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, modify, create derivative works of, and otherwise use and commercially exploit any text, photographs or other data and information you submit to the Website.” Which they say includes recipe submissions.

Long story short, this could create a sticky situation and make my publisher reverse course on their decision to publish another cookbook. Let’s just avoid the issue by agreeing to not post my recipe online. Thank you!