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How Do U Organize Your Recipes?
FutureMrsWagner
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I have alot of mine on my blog and just access them that way, but I have even more that are not on there...pages torn out of magazines, emails from people, printed recipes from websites, papers that I quickly scratched a recipe on...all different sizes and just a mess! I had them seperated in stacks of appetizers, drinks, main dishes, desserts, sides, etc. and then stuffed into envelopes and placed inside a recipe book, but Caleb got it the other day and threw it on the floor and everything flew everywhere! What a disaster! So, I went through them today and threw some out and organized the rest, but I don't know what to do with them now. Ideally, I'd love to type and save all of them on the computer...espcially onto my blog, but OMG that would take months! I do not have time to re-write or type all of them so that's really not an option. Ideas of how to organize this mess? The only thing I can think of is maybe a large binder with some type of clear pockets that I can seperate everything in to, but y'all are more creative than me so I'm asking here!
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Re: How Do U Organize Your Recipes?
I should preface this by saying that I don't cook very often, so I don't use recipes very much.
But, one of the things that I wanted as a wedding gift was a copy of all of my grandmother's recipes. She's an amazing cook. So, I have a recipe box that is filled with copies of her recipes.
When I find a recipe online that I like, I print it off in the size of an index card so that I can add it to my box.
I guess I'm old fashioned, but I like having a recipe on a card that I can pull out and look at while I cook.
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I'm in the midst of working on a 3 ring binder w/ all my recipes. I have tabbed dividers in it that separates my sections - apps, entrees, desserts, beverages, etc.
Most of the pages are in clear "sleeves". For smaller magazine cut outs, if they are in good shape I usually just use my glue stick to paste it to a plain sheet of paper. For these there's usually more than one on a page. If it's not in good shape and I know what mag it's from, I go to the website to look for it and print. Otherwise I scan it in and print. Larger pages just go into the sleeve as is. Some reg size pages aren't in sleeves, I just 3 hole punch them and use the little circle hole protectors. I'm liking how it's going so far but it is a work in progress.
Hope this helps...maybe you can improve upon it and give me so tips! And I should've prefaced it all by saying that I have several of the recipes from your blog in it!
My mom bought a photo album that has the pages where you peel back the clear page and stick the pictures down and place the clear sheet back over the top. It looks like a binder (and you can buy more pages separately to add).
After looking online, I think it is magnetic pages.
I use a 3 ring binder all the way. If it's a full size page I punch wholes in it and put it in the book. I do have some 4x6 note cards that I found those sleeves for. Yes they make sleeves that hold 4x6 or 5x7 note cards. I also was a complete nut and wrote out an index of all my recipes. I did it in excel organized my recipes into categories. I left plenty of spaces so that I can write in new recipes to my index. Now if I'm looking for a specific or seeing if I have a chocolate chip cookie recipes I just look at the index instead of flipping through a ton of pages. The index is also very helpful when I'm looking for meal ideas. I just have to look at a list and not the whole book.
I use rather specific categories too:
Appetizers, Beef Dinners, Biscuits, Breads, Breakfasts, Chicken Dinners, Chilies, Dips, Ham Dinners, Mexican Dinners, Mix Recipes, Pasta Dinners, Pizza, Pork Dinners, Rice Dishes, Salad, Seafood Dinners, Soups, Sourdough Recipes, Veggie/Fruit Dishes
I keep all sweet stuff separate (it used to be in another binder because I didn't have a huge one) But those categories are Banana Deserts, Brownies, Cakes, Cheesecakes, Cookies, Pies, Sorbets and Ice Cream, Sweet Breakfasts, Other Deserts (That's for Frostings, Apple Crisps, Fudge, until I have more of those recipes then they can have their own section.)
I'm an organization nut though, kind of miss the days where I used to get paid to organize other people's files and things.
I like the really specific categories! Mental note!
Monica, I have a recipe organizer that you are more than welcome to. It's like a binder, but with tabs already prepared for recipes. I've been holding on to it forever for a cousin who will probably never get married (it was supposed to be a shower gift for her, but....). Anyway, if you're interested, let me know.