Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Housekeeping

Find cleaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Housekeeping forum.

How to digitise my recipes?

4 replies

Justkoko · 25/01/2023 15:47

Hoping to simplify my collection of recipe books by scanning in anything I like to some sort of programme and then be able to give away my recipe books, or most of them anyway.
Not sure where the best place is to post this but I'm not sure how best to tackle it.
Either thar or I slice my favourite recipe pages out of the books and put them in a single folder, though that seems sad to damage a book someone else could use!

OP posts:
BlingLoving · 25/01/2023 15:50

I use Microsoft One Note and have a notebook in there for recipes. Within that I have separate sections and then I regularly take pictures of recipes and drop them into their own page.

Photos aren't searchable so I usually include some key words at the top eg chicken, casserole, cinnamon, slow cooker or something.

Some recipes I just retype up myself, depending on where they're from.

And of course, I also cut and paste from online recipes.

givememarmite · 25/01/2023 15:57

There is an app called recipe keeper where you can scan photos of recipes/pages from cook books, import recipes from webpages etc. I was looking at it last week and thinking it could be really handy. I've got lots of random bookmarks on my phone so was going to copy them all over and then add photos out of cook books.

You can do meal plans, shopping lists with it as well.

MMAMPWGHAP · 27/01/2023 21:28

I use the Paprika app. It will download recipes from web pages (including photos) pretty well. I have found lots of recipes from books are already online so I download from where I find them. Sometimes I transcribe stuff into there.
You can attach own photos to recipes too, so sometimes I just photograph the picture of the dish and take a second photo of the text.
My sons also have it and I can easily send them recipes to add to their collections.
Similar to recipe keeper you can meal plan and fro shopping lists (have done it but don’t often use that bit).
I have 400 recipes in there and find it invaluable.

Harpydragon · 27/01/2023 21:40

I use the Whisk app. You can link web pages, scan recipes, type your own in. Love it.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page