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How Do You Organize Your Recipes?
I am trying to get organized in regards to meal planning, etc. How do you organize your recipes? I have cookbooks, but the majority of the recipes I use are written on pieces of paper, printed off the computer, torn out of magazines or written on recipe cards in a box. I am just wondering what the most effective way to ogranize them would be. Putting them in a binder? Putting them all on recipe cards in a box? But then, do you divide them into categories? (Mexican, casseroles, sides, etc).
I know many of you out there are recipe savvy, and are great meal planners. Help me!
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Re: How Do You Organize Your Recipes?
This sounds like the best idea. I have a special recipe box that I hope to fill some day with recipes written on actual recipe cards, but now it's just stuffed with random recipes- written on scraps, some on cards, some torn out of magazines, etc. I think in the meantime the recipe binder is a great idea.
I started a blog!
Seriously. I have too many recipes and too many books. So when I love something, I type it up and put it in my blog. It takes up a little more time initially, but I think it saves time in the long run! Rather then searching through recipes, I just have "labels" in my blog. So something might be labeled "Mexican, Chicken, Casserole" and I can click on any of those 3 and find the recipe. Plus I also added a search feature in my blog, so I can just search for what I want and find it in an instant. It's great
And it takes up less space
And I can easily share it w/ friends when people ask for my recipes.
ETA: I also do the same binder idea the pp mentioned, but I find I refer to my blog much more often.
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This is what I do as well.
I stopped printing out recipes a long time ago because not only was I wasting money, ink, and paper, it was driving me bats when I lose them or forget about them. Now when I see a recipe I like, I always save it as a .pdf, or type it out and print it as a .pdf. I store my recipes electronically, organized in folders according to the main purpose, ingredient, or meal it should be served or cuisine like Desserts, Chicken, Beef, Breakfast, Mexican etc.
I have a Recipes folder on my computer where I store those folders, and I have them backed up on my website as well. I find it's a LOT easier for me to find recipes that way and plan my meals since I use Google Calendar to meal plan and Google Docs to manage my grocery lists. I do everything like that electronically now.
I do still have some cookbooks and misc recipes I've clipped from magazines, etc, but whenever possible, I save them electronically.
I do the same thing. I type them up in Word documents so that I can read them and share them with friends (or reprint if something was to happen to them). I only have the ones that are tried-and-true in the binder behind categories. I hated having cookbooks around that had one recipe I liked, so I went through and wrote down ones I wanted to try and got rid of them. It helps with clutter and I have my recipes in one place. I highly recommend plastic so you don't spill on them.