How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

Right now all of mine are chucked in an old tea tin...looking for ideas for something nicer.

Thanks!

Message edited 1/14/2012 9:24:52 AM.

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

I just went through 3 years of Food Network magazines and pulled out the recipes I wanted to try.

Unfortunately, they are all in a big messy pile.

So - I am very interested in tips too.

Sorry, I'm no help!

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

At least yours have the tea tin! Mine are just shoved in between the pages of random cookbooks.

I've thought about making a binder for them. I should really get on that. It'd definitely make life easier!

Curious to see everyone else's ideas.

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

i try so hard to be organized with them!

1) I have a binder with clear sleeves and I put the recipes in the sleeves.

2) I have a book that I write them in (have not kept up on that, my my go to recipes are in there)

3) I have a bunch in a basket on the desk wtih food stains all over them,

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

If I see a recipe I like I tear it out or print it up. I then try it within a reasonable amount of time. If it's good, I then put it in a plastic sleeve in a binder with any notes I made when I cooked it. My binder is organised by beef, poultry, side dishes, soups, etc. I then look through it once a year and clean it out and reorganise, etc.

Now if I could only organise other things better...

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

I have a huge binder with everything I rip out of magazines or print off websites. I have the binder organized into categories, like Chicken, Beef, Fish, Salad, Soup, Appetizers, Holiday, etc.

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

I have a binder with protector sheets and dividers. I also type or scan recipes and e-mail it to myself in GMail. I created a label called recipes and archived them all (thank you Google!). God forbid I lose my binder, at least I have digital copies still filed away in my e-mail!

Message edited 1/14/2012 1:49:38 PM.

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

I type them out then add them to binder of recipes i have

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

i've just started using an app on my ipad called pepperplate..it's online too, but i find it a great way to organize my recipes

i'm slowly putting things into the app..i can print them out, and i can organize them if i want to in binders.

for now, i can tag the by the type of recipe, see all the recipes of a certain type i have, add them to a menu planner, create a shopping list, etc.

it's fantastic!!

over time, i'd like to create a family cookbook on blurb or something with pics of my family cooking-prob won't happen until i have kids

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

I use a notebook binder with clear sleeves. I have it sectioned and organized with all my magazine recipes and print outs. I put the ones I have not tried in the folder part and when I try it I make notes and rate it and then I put it in the sleeved sections (if its good). That way I know all of the recipes are yummy. I love how its a binder but is folds, I can fold it to the recipe and lean it on the counter. I also love how it wipes clean. You can add your own cover too. I also made one for my Mom, Sister and Aunt, they are a great present!!

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

I have a recipe box. Whatever I cut/copy I tape or glue onto a index card and then they are filed alphabetically in the box.

When I pick something out to to cook I just take out that card.

A binder sounds better though :)

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

I just have them in folders but I want to get them better organized.

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

I bought a little cute book, like a spiral recipe notebook, I cut out some recipes and pasted them in, some I hand wrote, and if they are too big, I put them in a looseleaf type notebook.

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

I have an entire collectionnon the computer of "haven't made"

I also have a digital & paper version of any recipe I have made & was worth keeping to make again.
The paper copies are types & in plastic sleeves in a binder.
I like to be able to flip thru them when I need ideas.


I still have TONS I haven't made yet.

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

I have them printed out, stuck to the fridge, on top of the fridge, in the basket of mail, on the end table....



I really need to be better organized!

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

online recipes I have like a 40 page word document of the links.

receipes from family and friends I have a recipe card book. I write them out on the cards and keep them in there.

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

I was actually working on this over the weekend.... When I first got married, I bought a binder, filled it with plastic sleeves, and was intent on filling it up with recipes that I liked. The truth is that every recipe I pulled out of a magazine or printed was haphazardly shoved into this binder (not in the plastic sleeves) and the binder overflowed into 3 times its original width, held together but a huge rubberband so that its contents wouldn't fall out.....

I began to sort through the recipes this weekend, tossed a bunch of recipes, and started to organize the recipes I would like to keep.

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)

Re: How do you store your recipes? (Printouts, handwritten, tear-outs from magazines, etc.)