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Post by bbird on Feb 15, 2007 14:48:52 GMT -5
This is one thing that I need to figure out. Seems like my old recipe's on index cards in a box seem so handy and I know how to find what I am looking for but they take up a lot of room and I hate writing out recipes.
Also, I get so many recipe's from the net that I don't use or I forget about because I have saved them on the computer. Sometimes I will make a disc of recipes, but that is kind of a pain to leave the kitchen sit down and find recipes...by the time I am done I forget what I was looking for, lol.
I've tried buying recipe books where it looks like a journal and writing down recipes but there is no order to these so I have to thumb through the whole book to find what I am looking for, or its in a different book. Well, it's just time consuming!
How do you keep all your recipes? I need something that is handy, quick and easy to find what I am looking for.
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Post by momo on Feb 15, 2007 22:12:59 GMT -5
I have 2 boxes of neat recipes and 2 shoe boxes full of clippings and printed off the internet recipes. I am in the same boat. We need HELP!
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Post by bbird on Feb 16, 2007 15:10:55 GMT -5
I have 2 boxes of neat recipes and 2 shoe boxes full of clippings and printed off the internet recipes. I am in the same boat. We need HELP!  Yah! I'm not the only one who needs help. I really think this is the reason for me getting in a funk with dinners because I don't have new recipes in a handy place. I'm sure my family would appreciate the help/advice too!  |
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Post by bergere on Feb 18, 2007 8:54:03 GMT -5
My Mom made me a beautiful Scrap booking style Recipe book...is easy to use. Now I need to find my recipe box...which is still in a box somewhere when we moved three winters again.  What have managed to remember...is scribbled on bits of paper in various places in the kitchen. So no help for you Deb. You know...way back when "Current" Stationary was the online place to buy such things...to get organized that is. |
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Post by bergere on Feb 18, 2007 9:03:00 GMT -5
currentcatalog.com/category.asp?subCatID=273When I was a kid..the family bought all the cards, letter writting paper and organizers from these folks in bulk....used to be a whole lot cheaper than paying the prices out in town. Not sure if it is the same any more..but give it a look.
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Post by momo on Feb 18, 2007 14:16:14 GMT -5
Ahhh memories from the past. I used to love Currents cute little stationery.
My recipe problem is that I have so many formats going already. How do you know what is best? I have the old fashioned metal box with cards in it. I have sheets of paper from the internet. I have scribbled on paper. I have newspaper clippings. I have pieces of boxes. I have 3 scrapbooks. What a mess!
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Post by bbird on Feb 18, 2007 14:37:03 GMT -5
I remember currents too! lol
Yep, momo and I need a tried and easy method for all our recipes. The easiest seems to be putting them on a cd, but I just know that I wouldn't take the time to turn the computer on, and hunt for a recipe. I don't know....maybe I need an old library card filing system...you know the kind with the long long tiny drawers that hold index cards. I could set it up in the kitchen so its handy.....Nah!!
Keep the suggestions coming WE need help!!!
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Post by bergere on Feb 18, 2007 20:08:48 GMT -5
You know...it is pretty easy to make your own book now a days.
Spend a couple of hours everyweek working on it.
You can get those blank books already nicely bound and hand write the entries...with enough blank pages in the back for future entries.
Or... buy some nicer paper.. type them in on the computer..print it out. Buy one of those nicer more high end ring books (saw some very nice leather ones and not that spendy). Slip the printed recipe i pages in the tasteful clear plastic cover....to keep the recipe safe from spills.
Make sure that you have enough room for future Recipes.
Both are easy to do and not spendy. Just have to be willing to work on it at least once a week. In no time you will be done. Recipes all in one place..with room for expansion.
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Post by bbird on Feb 18, 2007 22:53:35 GMT -5
oh, like photo album's with the sleeves? That is an idea, I could slip the recipe's in for protection plus I could alphabetize them and move them around as I go. Hmmmm, I think you are on to something. I like blank books, but have found that there is no rhyme or reason of order so very difficult to find something in a hurry. The album with sleeves might just work though!
Thanks Bergere!
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Post by starfire on Feb 20, 2007 0:31:51 GMT -5
Bbird - when I did a family cookbook about a year ago this is what I did:
I gathered all the family recipes I had and others had.
I had a folder in the WORD program called Cookbook
I typed them all out on the computer in WORD
Then I saved the recipes to the cookbook folder and on a disk (in case something happened to one of them, and all that work aould have been lost)
I also found clip art to go with some of the recipes.
When I finished typing them all out (took me a few months) I printed them out and put them in a notbook.
The notebook, was divided into sections like; Main Dishes, Salads and Soups, Veggies, etc.
After I printed the recipe out and put them in a sleeve and put it in the notebook.
It is alot of work but really worth it in the end.
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Post by bbird on Feb 20, 2007 0:47:53 GMT -5
That's a good idea too Starfire, thanks for explaining it. Printing it out would work, especially if I had a three ring binder so I could move recipe's about as I added new ones.
I don't know why I get a one track mind and for the life of me, I can't figure things out like this. I kept thinking that once a book is made, I couldn't add to it, lol.
I think I will plan on doing this organization this summer. On hot days when I don't feel like doing anything. Boy, that seems so far off, but I know it will sneak up on me, lol.
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