What do you do with recipe cuttings from magazines?

[DonPablo]

Lockdown jobs!

I have a huge amount of cuttings from food magazines and I have no idea what to do with them. I'm pruning them down to the ones I actually want, but there's still masses.

My sister says just chuck them and Google any recipes I want, but I don't want to do that! Waaaah! Scrap book? Recipe cards? Will I ever actually use them?

What do you do?

enjoy your folder! I hope it gives you much joy sitting on your shelf unused while you cook after googling the recipe

I google them and save in Paprika app

I do what Bezalelle does only the well used recipes in my book have food smudges and greasy fingerprints on the pages

Three folders with polypockets. One big one for meals (red meat, poultry, fish, veggie) and 2 normal slim ones, one for puddings and cakes, one for "other" things like chutneys, breads. When a folder gets full I sort it out and get rid of near-duplicates or never used recipes. I find paper copies far easier to work off than my phone (we don't have tablets and don't have space for a laptop on the counter).

I sorted all mine out.. kept enough to bluetac inside my kitchen cupboards.. some I have written only fancy paper.

It’s not something I do, I don’t buy magazines, but something my mother does religiously.
She laminates them and then put them in a poly pocket in a folder.

She laminates them and then put them in a poly pocket in a folder.

Laminate and a poly pocket? How do they fit the poly pocket? They’re only just big enough for an A4 sheet.

Another Evernote user here, have very slowly moved from folders of poly pockets onto Evernote over the las three years. I scan them in using Scannable, crop if I need to, then sync to Evernote. I use Evernotes' notebooks to arrange them by starters, mains etc. and you can add tags to find by search. It also has a web clipper, so if you do find a recipe on the web, you can save it straight into your recipe collection.

I made notebooks for it. One is for veg, one for meat, and one for desserts. It's sectioned into different ingredients, so if I want chicken recipe, or carrot recipe, I can look straight away.
Also, I have a big sauce/dressing/marinade book, I added few pages of paper to it, and stick the cut out on to it.

I put mine in poly pockets, the ones with holes down the side, and then in a ring binder file.
If they’re just one side I put them back to back.

File is getting a bit over full now mind you, and I’ve run out of poly pockets, so there are too many loose ones.

I've culled them down. Some are my mom's. And I can't get rid of them because I'm sentimental about them. Which is weird because I'm not normally sentimental at all. I like the idea of laminating them so they're wipe clean but some are strange shapes.

I don't actually buy magazines. These are from the time when I did, or those free ones from the supermarkets and I do very occasionally get a vegetarian food magazine. I always get the Christmas veggie mag. But I just keep those whole.

Laminate and a poly pocket? How do they fit the poly pocket? They’re only just big enough for an A4 sheet.

She cuts out the original recipe then cuts down the laminate.

This was one of my lockdown jobs. I had some in a display book and some in polypockets in a ringbinder but also a big pile of cuttings shoved into the front of the ringbinder.

I now have a display book with Christmas recipes, a ringbinder with baking and dessert recipes, 3 ringbinders with recipes in alphabetical order (room to slot more in) and a ringbinder with miscellaneous recipes eg if there are a couple on one page or a 4 page spread of recipes on a theme and I want to keep them all.

My aim is to try one new recipe each week now that they're all organised.