How do you store your recipes?

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I'm talking about cuttings from magazines etc. I get BBC Good Food and often see things I'd like to try, so I cut them out and bung them in a folder. Trouble is, I have amassed so many that I forget what's there and never get round to using them.

I have a Dodo recipe book in which I write down recipes I use regularly, but I need some sort of filing system for these cuttings. Preferably something that organizes them into categories eg. veggie/meat/cakes/puddings etc. And it has to be easy and quick to use - if I have to faff around too much either to file them away or find them again, I'll end up not using it.

Any ideas for slick, efficient filing systems?

In these in lever arch files. One file for soups, nibbly stuff and starters, one for main dishes, one for puddings and another for baking.

And when I have a spare hour or three I sort them into vague alphabetical/category order within each folder as well. This, of course, is a rare event

I've got 2 ring bound a5 folders from paperchase (needed 1 just for all cake type things as I love to bake!)

They come with lined paper, so I can write some out, but usually I just cut things out and stick them onto the paper!

There's also some clear folders in which I keep receipes which I've had handed down and I want to keep.

It was a pretty mahussive task to sort them all out to begin with (I probably did it over a week in the evenings, just say watching tv), but now it's all organised it's really easy just to pop new ones in!

Hope that all makes sense, have had a general anaesthetic today and am currently mumsnetting from my hospital bed to take my mind off things!

Thanks FrankWippery. I've used folders before, but without the clear envelopes which I guess makes it nice and easy to file them away quickly? Am off to Ikea tomorrow so may look out for some nice big folders.

zippyrainbowbrite thanks for taking the trouble to reply from your hospital bed - don't overdo it now...
Being a lazy person I think having to actually get out a glue stick and stick things down might be one step too far for me but thanks for the suggestion.

I put cut-out recipes on a piece of A4 paper and then laminate. Can get lots of recipes on a page and use both sides. Have 2 files, one sweet and one savoury. Savoury is divided into meat, fish, pasta, veg/side dishes. The wipe-clean ability is a bonus!

Thanks PinkyCheesy I love laminating (ex primary teacher)
But I think it would be pretty expensive for all my cuttings I want to try, altho for faves I can see it would be good.

On my blog. Can then access it on my pc ot phone, and can easily share with my friends &family without having to write it out a million times!

have you got a scanner?

I scan them in then store them in an adobe file named 'recipes' . I then have separate headings, beef, chicken, cake, puddings etc and file it accordingly. If a recipe has 2 main ingredients I file it under both.

I also save online recipes in the same way by copying and pasting into word and saving as a PDF document.

I also back up every now and then onto a pen drive just incase my computer decides it's time to die.