How do you store your recipes?

Stephen_Leak

Taking my PC into the kitchen would be a bit of a hassle - its a tower desktop! If I do need to refer to any recipes on it, I do a printout - they are just Word documents.

tinselfairy

I've tried keeping them in folders and writing them into notebooks, but recently I've started to transfer them to record cards and this seems to be the best way by far. Hardly any room needed to store them.
There is a shelf full of books in the utility room, but I'm planning on going through them and getting rid of the ones I don't use too much, just transfer the recipes I do use to a card and then sell the books at the next car boot.

rosieben

Mine are a muddle, books, bits of paper, on the puter.

I've started printing off and putting all the pieces of paper in plastic pockets inside binders - one for micro recipes, one for others, and it is getting easier to find what I want.

I also just dumped about 15 cookery books after going through each one and scanning recipes I wanted to keep - this was an average of two recipes per book - so all that space taken up for about 30 recipes that fit on 10 pieces of a4 paper!:eek:

My aim was to get them all in the binders, until I had a look at Queenie's software .........

nappentass

rosieben wrote: »

Mine are a muddle, books, bits of paper, on the puter.

Mine too, however I now have a bright yellow folder and I now add in recipes I've actually made and liked to it, along with any notes from that cooking.

Would like to get them into a system on the puter so that I can more easily menu plan and create shopping lists (get dp to use his pda shopping )

Any software recommendations gratefully received

Jill

susy_2

beemuzed wrote: »

How old fashioned am I? My recipes are mainly stored in books - two long shelves of them! I also have a book with recipes cut rom magazines dating back to the early days of marriage (1970!) and a folder with recipes DH started printing out on our first computer - the paper was that roll stuff with perforations! My big project (for "someday" will be to copy out those I actually still use - surprisingly a lot - and then I'll keep them in a file on my laptop...or maybe print them out...
Recipes I've "invented" or adapted over the years are card indexed.

No, not old fashioned, just very organised. I wish! I need you in my home :rotfl:

rosieben

nappentass wrote: »

Any software recommendations gratefully received

You'll find Queenie's post re her software here (post #11)

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=4935046#post4935046

Hope that's ok Queenie!!

nikibella

Hi
I store the paper recipes in plastic folders, but if I like one and think I'll use it often, I copy it in a word file stored in a "recipe" folder.
When I want to bake a cake or do something that's more complicated and the recipe is in the computer, I have a look and write down just the basics (eg weight of ingredients, baking time and temperature) on a small piece of paper (mostly recycled), for the other recipes I just read the recipe and then go to the kitchen and do it.

spiddy100

I've got mine in plastic pockets in a ring binder, divided into sections : starters, chicken, beef etc. Sometimes this doesn't work though, like when you get a whole meal planned out with timings etc, which are really better kept together.

Greenshieldstamp_2

Hello there,

I am a newbie and would like to join Money Saving Old Style please. This is my first post so please forgive me if it has already been discussed.

I am collecting together my recipes and would like some advice on how other people store theirs. Do you use plastic files, handwritten files or cards etc.?

Mine are a good mixture of downloaded prints; magazine cut outs; and some from my mum which need to be written down

If this is a duplicate thread then please would you point me in the right direction.
Thanks very much

PS: Followed the old style recipe for mince pies today and they are lovely so thanks for that.

Pink.

Hi Greenshieldstamp,

Welcome to MSE and in particular Old Style. :hello:

I used to keep a folder with all my recipes gathered together, but now I keep them in a word document on the pc and they are so much easier to find.

If you have a look at this older thread it will give you some idea of what others do: How do you store your recipes?

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep all the replies together.

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