RECIPE (organizing) HELP!

[Edel2019]

Help me. Please. Losing my mind over this. Losing it. 🤣🤣🤣

So I have lots of cookbooks. Lots of recipes printed off the net. I use apps too.

Is there any way I can have all my recipes in one simple place??? I presume it'd have to be online?

I have ugly binders for my printed recipes. They're so ugly though I hate looking at them. Any recommendations for chic little binders?

Completely aware I'm suggesting something to myself on my own thread but just thought....could I use Pinterest 🤔

Not perhaps the best idea but I took a photo of my scraps of paper with recipes on and emailed them to myself and then set up a folder.

@TreacleHart

Not perhaps the best idea but I took a photo of my scraps of paper with recipes on and emailed them to myself and then set up a folder.

Well that is a brilliant idea.....seriously, I had never thought of that

I use an app called Recipe Keeper - take a photo of the recipe and it will convert and save the text within the app with photos etc. which you can then categorise. It costs around £5 but you can add 10 recipes on the free version to see if you like it - it is great and I’ve cooked loads from the recipes I’ve saved. You can also save online recipes too and convert handwritten ones with your own photos.

I have a folder on my cloud with all the recipes I like in there and they are categorised beef, pork, sides, puddings etc etc

Any recipes online I quite fancy I save as PDF's and add them in. I have also scanned in a load and added them that way.

@readit

I use an app called Recipe Keeper - take a photo of the recipe and it will convert and save the text within the app with photos etc. which you can then categorise. It costs around £5 but you can add 10 recipes on the free version to see if you like it - it is great and I’ve cooked loads from the recipes I’ve saved. You can also save online recipes too and convert handwritten ones with your own photos.

This sounds fantastic, trying it out tomorrow. Thank you so much for posting

@Furball

I have a folder on my cloud with all the recipes I like in there and they are categorised beef, pork, sides, puddings etc etc

Any recipes online I quite fancy I save as PDF's and add them in. I have also scanned in a load and added them that way.

This is a great idea. It's so odd, the idea of not reading from a cookbook sometimes rattles me, especially when I'm tired....I'm 32 but still trying to get used to screens the odd time 🤣

I use the app Pepper plate

Paprika app is similar, and it has a Chrome extension so you can find a recipe, click and it's on all your devices. I also like that you can scale up or down and convert to lb/oz or kg/g etc.

I used to use pinterest for recipes but I found it a pain looking at recipes on my phone. I much prefer to have them all printed out. So I bought a folder, some plastic wallets and some dividers and now have the folder next to my cookbooks on the shelf.