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How do you store your recipes?
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carrottopsuk
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Since I found this site, I have found lots of recipes I would like to try or have tried. With this in mind, I was wondering how you store your recipes.
Do any of you store your recipes on a recipe database on the net? Or doi people put them in a book/folder?
Any suggestions welcome.
Do any of you store your recipes on a recipe database on the net? Or doi people put them in a book/folder?
Any suggestions welcome.
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Large boxfile - very cheap Fellowes one.0
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My mum got me a file seperated into sections (soups, starters, baking...)
I use the file, but nothing is in order. It's mainly just shoved in there any old way.May all your dots fall silently to the ground.0 -
A Word document - I cut and paste posts from here, and retype ones from magazines. Easily searchable. I have considered trying to find some decent software though.The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. An ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.0
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OK....I buy at least 2 magazines a month to do with food (or have recipes in them) and these are stored alongside my cookery books. Every Friday night I sit down with a bunch of magazines and 2/3 books and pick out lunches/dinners for the next week. I write these recipes out by hand and pin them up on the fridge next to my menu planner & shopping list. If, and only if, I'm happy that a recipe has succeeded it is then transferred to a biggish blue hardback book that is full of tried and tested recipes (including many from OS :T) and this is the book I turn to when I want to make something I know will taste good.
It's a bit convulated but it works for me and at least I seem to get a bit of variety in my diet (which can be hard if you're a weightwatching veggie
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I am thinking of redoing my recipe collection into oven temperatures, so it would be easier to batch bake and make good use of oven space. I am not sure how easy it will be!0
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My recipes are kept in a lever arch file, in polypockets. As I get recipes, they're typed up properly and popped in there. At the moment the file is organised into 'soups', 'starters', 'meat' etc. Think I might have to expand and have seperate folders for each section though (especially dessert recipes - I've got a *lot* of those
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I'll probably re-do them all at some point, right now after I cook something I write (in pencil) all over the recipe - things like 'too much onion', 'use fresh herbs' etc, so it's getting a bit messy.We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment0 -
index cards in a box with section dividers so I flick through the section that I'm looking for and just take out the card I want instead of a whole book or folder0
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I keep my recipes in a lever arch file, in polypockets, also usally kept in alpherbetical order, keeps them clean, also kept in there is a copy of my freezer/cupbord content list. its so easy to see what i have got in.Hoping that when I start looking after the pennies, and the pounds will take care of them selves :j0
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i do the same as wigginsmum 0
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Printed off and in a plastic pocket in my bulging folder! They are not even organised, just shoved in as i get them!
Must try harder......0
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