Has anyone printed their own family cookbook?

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Thought I would put our favourite recipes into a cookbook as a gift idea, however it all seems terribly complicated. Has anyone else done this?

Most publishing websites are in the USA and so the shipping costs are prohibitive. Finally decided that Blurb seemed a good site but when I downloaded their cookbook template my system didn't recognise it. As I'm not much of a whizz on the PC I didn't want to start from scratch with fonts/layouts. Also didn't really want to photograph each dish to go in the book as could take ages to finish, anyone know of a site with foodie pics free to upload?

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All sounds quite involved.

What's wrong with gifting samples, instead of recipes?

what about getting it done as a photo book?

had never thought about it but what a great idea

Thanks nannyl, will look into that, have printed photo books very easily before.

Sylvanian - samples are a nice idea but I was thinking more of family mealtime favourites which the family will have had before rather than baked goods which are easy to wrap.

We have thought of doing this before. We were looking at a site called something like lulu.

OP www.photobox.co.uk/shop/photo-books/cookbook