Sadly, this is my recipe book.
I love finding new recipes, mostly from magazines. Sometimes online or in the newspaper. Sometimes friends give them to me. But I can't imagine painstakingly handwriting them on little recipe cards. Or typing them all out in a computer program. I just have way too many.
So this has been my system for years. It's just a five-subject notebook into which I glue my recipes. Categorized of course.
But as you can see I was very behind on cutting and gluing.
Plus the notebook was starting to fall apart.
And once I run out of pages in a particular category, I can't add more.
My mom is also addicted to collecting new recipes, and she recently shared with me her new solution. I don't know why I didn't think of this before: a binder!
Sturdier than a notebook, plus I can have unlimited categories, and I can add pages whenever I want!
Ahh, so neat and pretty.
I cut circles of green cardstock and glued them onto white cardstock to use as homemade dividers. So I was able to have 10 categories! So much more organized. I don't know why I put this project off for so long.
How do you organize recipes? Is anyone else obsessed with collecting them?
SUPER cute idea!! My mom found a cute scrapbook on uber-clearance at JoAnn's (or Michael's??) and does something similar. I need to make some adjustments....mine is the old box from 1994 that I got as a graduation gift. Yeah, weird grad gift. Anyhoot, it won't shut either! Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteI have gone through so many different ways of organizing my recipes and so far nothing has worked for me. On top of that I have promised my whole family on both sides that I will make two cookbooks. One with Norwegian recipes and one with American recipes. I really should get going on that. Maybe a new theme for my blog? Become my follower and maybe you can inspire me to get started.
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