To be Legitimate or Not to be...

I want nothing more than to have a job that I can do from home.  Ok, Correction... I NEED nothing more than to find a legitimate source of income from home.  It seems that over the last nine years that I have been searching, all I have found are companies trying to rape me out of $29.99 here, a one time fee if $49.99 there, a $400 kit of who knows what... and the list goes on. 

It started out as a way of making a little extra income as I was a 21 year old single mom of a baby boy.  Then it turned into a mission!  I could not figure out how sooooooo many people were scamming and being scammed by these so-called companies online.  Now it has turned into a desperate situation.  Nine years later, I am now married and have a new little baby in the home and I NEED MONEY!  I am willing to work for it... but is the only legitimate source to start up something on my own?  Well if I had the money to do that, I would not be looking for another opportunity!  I have come up with so many ideas on my own to do, but do not have the capitol to get anything started!  I first trademarked a message in a bottle business where I would make personalized bottles with poetry inside each bottle and would deliver locally and ship out of state.  Then I was going to make soy massage candles and sell them at boutiques.  My husband is a chef for a living and has cooked for the world most elite... including many entertainment personalities and presidents of several countries over the past ten years.  We were going to do a cook book together and try to sell it in bookstores... but cannot seem to be able to get it done.  I have a childrens book almost completely finished but do not know what am I supposed to do with it from here or how to get it out in the world!  The latest idea was that my husband wants to bottle his specialty spice that he created... but where do I begin if I do not have the money to buy the bottles and pay for the marketing and advertising?  Can someone please help???  All I am looking for is ONE, just one legitimate form of making money at home without an investment.