Take it Easy Make it Easy was put together by parents and teachers of the school, making it a community cookbook. Community cookbooks are also known as charitable cookbooks or fundraising cookbooks. Take it Easy Make it Easy could then be classified as a fundraising cookbook, as the sole purpose of the cookbook was to raise money for the school. Community cookbooks have been around since the civil war era when women ran charity organizations to raise money for goods and services to be sent to their soldiers. Organizations that made community cookbooks have and still include, women's Church groups, ladies aid societies, business women's clubs, hospital auxiliary groups, educational clubs, library groups, and parent teacher associations.  Take it Easy Make it Easy was a parent teacher organization as parents and teachers alike contributed to the cookbook in a joint effort to afford better resources for the school to help the children.  Lastly, community cookbooks are less polished then regular cookbooks. They rarely mention the individual contributors, the bindings are cheaply made, and pictures of the recipes are not usually included.  This information fits with Take it Easy Make it Easy, there are no individual contributors mentioned, it is spiral bound, and the only pictures included are the simple drawings at the beginning of each chapter. Addtionally there is a correction page added loosly in the back. As it was a cookbook which would have been cheaply made they would not have wanted to reprint all the cookbooks after finding these mistakes, and so they simply added the correction sheet.

In the past, community cookbooks seem to have been compiled by women's groups, and in the 1980s this still holds true. Two spheres exist, the private sphere where households, families and friends interact, and the public sphere where businesses, colleagues and strangers interact. Community cookbooks were a way for women to contribute to the public sphere without leaving their set private sphere. In the 1980s, women were now fully immersed in both spheres of society, holding similar public sphere roles as men did, yet still holding their private sphere roles as well. Take it Easy Make it Easy seems to be compiled by only women, though the individual recipes fail to credit their authors. In the 1980s, the shift in women out of the household and into the workforce that had been progressing since the 1960s, resulted in more than half of married women with children working. These women were not only working but social norms still dictated that women be in charge of cooking, cleaning, and childcare. This means that more than likely the recipes would have been contributed by women and would have been catered towards mothers, as it was this group that would have cooked and used family catered cookbooks. This makes the whole purpose of the cookbook, to be easy and simple, make sense as it would have been from and for working mothers with little time. Not only were these working mothers, but these were mothers with disabled children most likely requiring more attention. Furthermore, in the 1980s, there was an increase in the divorce rate and on average more children lived with their mothers. Divorced women were responsible for fully supporting themselves and for the childcare. Therefore, it is established that the recipes were contributed by busy women, meaning that they would hold true to being easy for the working mother and the recipes could be trusted to cater to a busy life.