AIBU to ask how people store their recipes?

[januhairyfebruhairy]

I have a recipe book that one can write in. It is sectioned into types of food (soup, meat, fish etc). However, I'm looking for a better system and am not willing to go completely digital yet. Any suggestions from tried and tested methods?

I print my most used recipes, or clip them out of magazines/newspapers, and then file them in a (bulging) folder with clear plastic pockets. It is sectioned into Veggie/Pasta/Chicken/Meat/Fish. I have a separate one for puddings .

I have several A5 loose leaf recipe files and I stick recipes in. One is lockdown recipes, one is for festivals and one is for baking. Each has sections so I can divide up cakes, breads, main meals or whatever. I am a complete techie but cant cope with having my recipes on my iPad.

I have a box that recipes get thrown into all higgledy piggledy. Some are handwritten, some printed off the internet. Soups, main meals and desserts... All mixed together.
I could be more organised but I quite like my system.
Where is the recipe? In the box.

I’m the same as Hamstercatcher, except I use a paper folder.

Apart from my recipe books I have two ring binders with recipes cut out from magazines or recipes I have printed off. I have a list of them on an excel spreadsheet that I have also printed off, but if I want to make something specific I can filter the index on my laptop to search.

I do all online on Pinterest now apart from a few recipe books I have.

I keep them on the internet and just Google again if I need to.

I’ve got loads of cookbooks so use many recipes directly from there, but the rest I still write into a recipe journal. I like the act of writing it all out! But I do date from the pre-internet era. It’s not the recipe book I’ve always had, as my original got badly water damaged in a plumbing mishap, but the current one has been going for years. Many recipes I keep in my head now, I’ve made them so often.

I stick them in a file and every few years go through them and realise I very rarely try a new recipe .

HOWEVER - tonight my DH has cooked a recipe featured in the cookery section of a newspaper today and it was delicious and different.

I have hundreds of recipe books and quite a photographic memory so remember where each recipe is. Absolute favourites I write in my recipe book. Anything online I email to myself and keep in a recipe folder on my Gmail which I never look in.
We use Gousto too, so I have folders and folders of recipe cards which I've organised into beef, pork, lamb, chicken, fish , vegetarian and vegan. I also have the app library I can search through.

I have a real recipe book purchasing habit...

Mine are completely digital, I have them on Google keep notes so I can see what I need to buy and add that on there too.

In a folder on my phone photos

I use endnote... Mixture of screen shots /handwritten recipes digitised...

Get utterly fed up of 20 plus cookbooks and too many which I only used one or two recipes from!

I can search them easier now and much cleared shelves

The app Whisk is free and excellent

Cut out, printed or copied and stuffed into a large folder full of poly pockets. I tell myself that I use them regularly but in truth I tend to flick through them while eating toast in the kitchen.

I have an A4 hardback notebook that my Mum gave me for it when I left home 😍 I also have my mum's own A4 notebook that she did the same with. Neither will shut properly because they are stuffed with recipes torn out of magazines, scribbled on envelopes, etc. There is zero organisation in either, but it's nice to see my mum's handwriting when I'm looking for something I half remember

I use one note. If I spot a recipe in a magazine that I like the sound of, I can usually find the exact same one on line. On the rare occasions that I can't, I photograph it. I've divided the one note folder up into different sections so that I can find things easily

In a drawer in the kitchen, they are all mostly recipe cards. I take the top seven and do the weekly shop from those and then shove them to the bottom, a recipe probably only comes round about once a year.

I still have my Dodo write-in recipe book that my mum gave me when I was 20 and started cooking. I use that, print offs folded into a5 and my very old blog I rarely update! Got so sick of the cluttered kitchen books and print offs a now involve dragging a dining room chair into the kitchen to get them off the top of the cupboard. Weirdly haven’t used those much recently...

After my folder of much loved recipes clipped from newspapers etc got accidentally chucked away (thanks, DH) i now photograph them on my phone as i come across ones i like, all stored in the cloud.
I also have far too many cookbooks but find i google recipes rather than search for them in a book.

In alphabetical order in two card index boxes - the first one got too full a few years ago.

Successful new recipes always get the accolade: "Put it in the box."

They are in a chaotic mess in a carrier bag. I did have a "let's get organised" moment, during which I started a folder on the computer and typed about thirty of them out. This led to printing one when I wanted it, writing notes on that version and then stuffing it into the chaotic carrier bag ... and repeat, which resulted in ten different print-outs of the same recipe, all with notes scribbled on ... which I think about, with a sense of "I must compile all those notes, and then I would have the perfect version".

Don't deal with recipes this way, that's all I can say. (I bloody hate cookery, anyway.)

Google keep.

In alphabetical order in two card index boxes

Ha! Mine and yours, CatChant. The contrast ...

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In alphabetical order in two card index boxes

Ha! Mine and yours, CatChant. The contrast ...

You see, I quite like cookery. I am not so organised in other areas that don't interest me. My mending pile is several years old...