I have been getting the Betty Crocker e-mails for a few years, and I'm not sure why because I usually delete them. The recipes almost always require some convenience product that I just do not buy. I guess they serve as a reminder that I do need to be thinking about cooking sooner or later.
I have my mom's Betty Crocker Cookbook from the early 1950's, and it was nothing like the website recipes. For basic, reliable recipes I use a more recent Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. It's much more health conscious than the earlier ones of any sort. However, these days I'm much more likely to look for any recipe I want online, especially at allrecipes.com which has user ratings. But be careful because usually if a recipe is very, very popular it will be loaded with sugar and fat. It's just human nature, I guess.