Up until this point, my recipes have been a complete mess. I received a nice book from my grandma when I went to college and it held those little recipe cards so nicely. Until I got lazy and stopped transferring recipes from little pieces of paper or 8x11 pages from online ideas onto the cards. I decided it was time to get organized. My good friend Kori put together a book like this several years ago and the idea always stuck with me.
I went to the store and spent $15 on a binder, 10 dividers and 50 sleeves. I used left over thick paper from our wedding ceremony programs to tape the recipes to and put each page in a sleeve.
The first page in the binder is a list (currently several lists) of ideas for dinner. I need to make this look a little nicer, but it gives ideas that I might not always have a recipe for (i.e. tuna salad or baked potato).
I bought dividers with pockets to put recipes I've received but have not tried. Once they are tried and true by this family, they will go on a page of their own.
10 recipe groups: breakfasts & breads, appetizers, salads, soups, sides
fish, beef, chicken, other mains (pork, vegetarian), and desserts!
I love getting organized. And it's so much easier to find that perfect recipe for tonight!
3 comments:
i love organization tips! it is always exciting to me when i can reorganize (1) recipes (2) address book (3) loose pictures or anything else that gets - love the pictures and ideas!
Yay for organization!!
oh dear....I REALLY need to do that, really bad! It's one of those projects I'm postponing, but shouldn't! I love reading your posts....here's our family's:
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