I like to print out recipes I find online and I figured out a good way to organize and store them. I print them out so they take up a full page and then three hole punch them. I have two thick 3-ring binders, divided with tabs to make sections. One book is just for meat recipes, I have it divided into beef, pork, chicken, and fish sections.
By Anne from Marengo, OH
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Between recipes to try (printed, as well as online), favourites, recipes from friends and family (some tried, some not ... yet), cookbooks galore and quite a number I've written, keeping them all organized used to be a bit of a challenge. Not so much the physical recipe but where to find something when I wanted to make a specific dish.
My solution? A spreadsheet. Very simple to add headings such as title, exact physical location (or URL), main contents / key ingredients, type of dish (salad, main, and so forth), companion recipes, author, notes as to changes (optional, of course), new vs. tried-and-true, dates made and anything else we deem relevant: highly customizable.
Naturally it takes a bit of time to set up, but keeping it up isn't onerous and - for me at least - it's eliminated the frustrating hunt and "where the heck did I put that" annoyance.
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