Hi ladies
Just wondering if anyone has any good ideas for storing / organsing recipes? I have about a dozen cook books, which I keep in magazine holders in my pantry. But I have about zillion recipes that I have cut out of magazines, printed of the internet etc... They are all just shoved in plastic pockets with my cook books, but I'm wondering if anyone has a good idea for storing them so I can easily access them!
A friend of mine has her clippings in a photo album, the old style ones with the clear plastic cover over each page. I have looked everywhere for one , but the only ones I can find have 4 x 6 dividers etc...
Any ideas.....???
plastic display folders - stick a piece of paper/card with the recipes stuck on back and front - works the same as an album but for the fact that you can fold it open better to see your page - and you can wipe off any splatters easily!
the other option is a flip folder that actually stands up when opened up (kinda like a triangle shape) same deal - you can read your recipe, everything is in plastic so stays clean etc...
ETA - if you use display folders, you can color code for easy finding - savoury in one color, dessert in another etc...
At the moment I use A4 notebooks, one is for main meals/savoury and the other is for desserts/cakes/slices etc. The recipes in there are either hand written in or just cut and pasted. Eventually, I want to compile them into a "recipes for keeps" folder of some sort...just so I have all the favourites in one easy spot! One day....lol
I have a program called macgourmet which I love yes it involves copying recipes over but it is a godsend, it also makes text clippings from any website. It has "Chef View" which enlarges the recipe on your screen to be viewed from a distance (say bench to cupbaord) from your laptop (or in my case macbook). I have a little red recipe book that I store up in my cupboard, but when it comes to printed out recipes I do like BG recommends I have those spiral bound sleeve folders with the plastic sleeves for loose recipes (I also have one for all our take out menu's).
My dream is to when I finally have my kitchen of my dreams DH has promised me a LCD in the kitchen which will connect wirelessly to my mac to display all my recipes
the LCD sounds fantastic Cai - we can dream hey?? i'm getting a new kitchen soon, maybe i should let you design it!
i have a lot of recipes on lappy at the moment - just waiting for when our kitchen is done. at the moment, all printed stuff has to be stored elsewhere, so it's just not practical to print (and lose) it - when i can keep on lappy for the time being...
Those triangley flip chart booky things are great. We used those at school for our art and graphic stuff. I hadn't thought of using them for recipes.....
This thread has made me want to get my gizzilion recipes organised.
Urgh! The boy is here and watching 'scrubs'. What is that garbage!!!! YUK! Think I'll take my cookbooks and go and hide in the bedroom! Planning Christmas I hope!
Organising / storing recipes
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