How do you store your recipes?

GreenSaints

Hello all

I love MSE, but I particularly like this forum because I've learnt so much - from how to clean efficiently, how to dry my clothes indoors and how to cook! So thank you all for contributing and making me domesticated

Because of my new found talents in cooking (well, no one has got food poisoning, so it's a success so far!) I've got loads of A4 sheets of paper with recipes on.

At the minute they are in a pile in the kitchen, but I was thinking there must be a way of storing them and being able to search for one easily.

All I can think of is putting them in an A4 folder, alphabetically. Has anyone else come up with something else?

Thanks in advance

lizzyb1812

If I print off recipes I then cut them down as small as possible - they usually don't cover the whole page. Then I put them in a photo album - mine has pockets that the recipes slide into. I haven't got them organised alphabetically but I could easily do so. I can slide out the recipe or stand the album up on the kitchen counter to read a recipe whilst I'm cooking. Most recipes I write on postcards (I have lots of free ones) and these fit nicely in the slots in the album too.

An A4 ring binder is probably the most MSE way though

Pink.

Hi GreenSaints,

I have some in a ring binder, some stored loose leaf in cook books and others are stored in word documents. This thread has more ideas that may help:

How do you store your recipes?

I'll add your thread to that one once you've had more replies.

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freakyogre

I have an A5 expanding file and handwrite all my recipes on record cards. It has loads of sections, so I have one each for each food ie. soup, chicken, pasta, cakes etc.

It's a bit long winded writing them all out, but I like them all to look the same. I'm a bit particular though

mi_jardin

I bought myself a nice jotter with a spiral closure and when recipes are tried, tested and approved by the gang they go in the jotter to keep. In the mean time all the scraps of paper get tucked inside.

maman

I have a nice storage box in the kitchen where I keep all the recipes I find. When they're tried and tested they get moved to an A4 file where they're slid into those punched pockets. Mostly I've got several recipes glued to a piece of A4 card, back and front. They're divided into categories like chicken, fish, red meat, pasta, veg and puddings.

kippers

I have an A4 lever arch folder with all my recipes in.....but i dream of an 'i-pad' (if thats what they are called as i'm not very up on these things)....i dream of searching for a recipe by it's name and propping it up to read it....it's not going to happen though so i really should stop this silly dreaming! lol

rising_from_the_ashes

I have a ringbinder too - I'm having real problems organising it tho!

I wanted to try to do something by ingredients which would hopefully help if I've loads of one thing to use up (eg eggs!) but it just doesn't work as too many of them fall into more than one category!

At the moment, they're all in there in a muddle with dividers not being used (really must sort it out!)

GreenSaints

kippers wrote: »

I have an A4 lever arch folder with all my recipes in.....but i dream of an 'i-pad' (if thats what they are called as i'm not very up on these things)....i dream of searching for a recipe by it's name and propping it up to read it....it's not going to happen though so i really should stop this silly dreaming! lol

That's a pretty good idea!

I have a tablet (not Apple though as I'm against them!) so I could get an app and put it on there.

Will be saving trees and MS at the same time!

Thank you for all your replies

BohemianCoast

I manage my recipes and do meal planning using Paprika for Mac on my home computer, but use Paprika for iPad when cooking exactly as described above (I prop it up in an ancient perspex cookbook holder so there's no risk of food splashing on the iPad. I also have the app on my iPhone, so it's handy when I'm shopping -- and on my husband's iPhone, so he can check there instead of asking me what meals are coming up.

Annoyingly, they're three different apps. It's probably about £20 in total, but it does exactly what I need so I'm very pleased with it. And of course I still have about a hundred paper cookbooks. I'm gradually putting the things we cook out of them onto the app, but it's a bit tiresome when you have to retype everything.