I have started a few different websites recently which I am excited about.  It is a little bit of an experiment, but that is the fun in creating websites.  They are rather simple right now, but I have a master plan to build them out further into niche cooking sites.  My initial chicken recipe websites include:

Roast Chicken Recipes

Chicken Casserole Recipes

Chicken Salad Recipes

Chicken Pasta Recipes

Honey Chicken Recipes

Lemon Chicken Recipe

Chicken Pie Recipes

Chicken is such a versatile meat, loved by most people around the world.  Over time, I hope to add more chicken recipes and cooking tips to these sites.  Watch this space!

If you are creating a me-too product, the way you package it will go a long way towards getting it seen in an overcrowded market and that’s exactly what Wild Bunch in Singapore did.

Launched in January 2007 Wild Bunch offers a premium range of made to order 100% organic juices that are presented in eye-catching designed bottles. They target bars, restaurants, healthcare centers, spas and beauty therapy clinics, and home and office clients.

WildBunch state on their website that their juice product is “farmed environmentally without the use of chemical herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers and with organic certification.”

Some of the organic vegetable and fruit recipes include Eazy Peazy (Carrots, Peas and Parsnips), Rootine Check (Beetroot, Carrots, Parsnips), Red Dragon (Dragon Fruit, Beetroot), Pineapple Zinger (Pineapple, Ginger) and more.

Each 250ml bottle ranges from $10 to $20 of which they are requesting from particular customer segments to pay a monthly subscription or minimum order. The monthly subscription for home or office is $255.

With a growth in a health conscious and environmental sustainability movement across the world, Wild Bunch has created a product and brand that is successful.

In United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, “fish and chips” is a treat that most families love. Even with the advance of fast food brands over the last 20-25 years, fish and chips is still as popular as ever.

Tefal has recently invented a new technology called the Tefal ActiFry that makes reduced fat, home style chips, at about 3% of the fat of regular fries. Its new fry cooker uses fans and motions to coat 4 potatoes in approximately 1 tablespoon of oil.

Although the ActiFry has been developed as a home market product, there is an opportunity to use similar technology to provide a healthier version of the chip to the public through fish and chip shops. It appears that the ActiFry technology could become a franchisable opportunity for this segment of the take-away industry. A business opportunity still to be developed.

Watch the Tefal ActiFry promotional video.

To learn more about the components of buying a traditional fish and chip shop, click here.

A German business called MyMuesli.com recently started an online business selling “made-to-order” muesli allowing you to mix and match up to 70 different ingredients.

This business concept is proving quite popular with Europeans as less than two weeks into starting the website, they had run out of packaging of which they estimated would last 8 weeks.

Customers are able to firstly select the base mix (oats and other grains), secondly, add fruit, nuts and seeds and then finish the cereal customization with added goodies such as organic gummi bears, banana chocs and alfalfa.

Each ingredient adds additional cost to the overall price depending on what you select, plus extra for shipping. All ingredients are organic which adds to the total cost.

The muesli mix is then given an ID and a name by the customer, which allows for easy reordering and recommending to friends, family and colleagues.

Components of this business would entail:

• Relationships with ingredient suppliers
• Commercial kitchen to prepare orders
• Design and build of an e-commerce website
• Promotion of the website through offline and online channels
• Shipping partner to deliver orders
• Setup of a credit card merchant account to take order payment

International shipping laws of this type of product will also need to be investigated.