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How I menu plan with cookery books.

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  • dawn1980
    dawn1980 Posts: 87 Forumite
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    I have finished (I know slow...) indexing Delia smith's complete cookery course. I guess I could email the file to anyone who owns the book and would like to see it indexed my way.
    I think some sections have needed to be sub divided.....I had fish,egg,vegetarian as friday and needed to make a three part table. Some other sections will need splitting when I have added other books.

    I'm just about to start adding "I know how to cook"

    I'm shocked at how useable my delia book is now. I have recipes I didn't know I had. Once I've added all my books I will have recipes for every occassion and sometimes variations of similar dishes.
    I've just been delighted to discover today I have recipes for crispy fried seawed, rosehip jelly, elderflower jelly, pork scratchings etc.

    I do believe that I would never have need of store brought things again (except of course cheese, sausages etc lol)

    I'm adding a page for info references now. All of my books have pages of tips or conversion charts or sugar temp charts etc.
    eg....
    menu ideas, p...such a book...
    jam advice, p....

    It's not just me, I bet anyone with more than a few books will find them so much more useful when you put the recipes in categories that are useful to them. No need to ask if and where you have a recipe for something on sale.....


    yes this is time consuming...but helpful. I don't mind sharing what I've filled in. But my sections may not be what you would use.
  • cazj80
    cazj80 Posts: 327 Forumite
    I would be really interested in seeing what you've filled in, I've made weekly menu plans before, but somehow we seem to resort to the same things after a while! And I love variety!
  • dawn1980
    dawn1980 Posts: 87 Forumite
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    cazj80 wrote: »
    I would be really interested in seeing what you've filled in, I've made weekly menu plans before, but somehow we seem to resort to the same things after a while! And I love variety!

    PM me an email addy and I'll send it as an attachment. It's 10 pages long. I understand people are worried about virus' etc so I won't be offended if you choose not to.:)
    (Oh and I added loads of sauces from I know how to cook without thinking about saving seperately-so you'll want to delete them if you don't have the book lol.)
  • patchwork_cat
    patchwork_cat Posts: 5,874 Forumite
    Has anyone done one on a spreadsheet format on the computer?
  • freezspirit
    freezspirit Posts: 994 Forumite
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    Great idea, pm sent
  • dawn1980
    dawn1980 Posts: 87 Forumite
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    I can't work spreadsheets out lol.

    Just to say to people requesting ...there are no recipes on the file.
    It's just a re-organised index of Delia's Complete cookery course-classic edition 2010, isbn, 978-0-563-36286-9
    and now some of "I know how to cook". useful if you own them or just to give an idea of what I'm doing.

    I definately need to reorganise or divide some sections.
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