How do you store your recipes?

carrottopsuk

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.

tawnyowls

Large boxfile - very cheap Fellowes one.

Gingham_Ribbon

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.

wigginsmum

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.

Ruby_Pudding

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 )

housemouse100

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!

Blairweech

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 ).

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.

chloe99_2

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 folder

Redrose

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.

Rachie_B

i do the same as wigginsmum

aimeelister

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......