I have alot of recipes. Any ideas on how to organize them?

Answer 1

Type your own cook book!

Answer 2

Of course the traditional way is in a recipe box, written or stapled to an index card and filed either alphabetically or by category and then alphabetically. That's what my mom has had for years and frankly, I find it as convenient as any other way I've seen.

Another good alternative is in a 5X7 ring binder with heavy card stock for the pages. Again, you can staple recipes to each page. I imagine that you could also use plastic page protectors with a ring binder, but if you have a lot of recipes, that can get cost-prohibitive.

Answer 3

I have mine in a database on the computer. My mother has 4 x 6 index cards with the recipes printed on them and has them in photopages in a 3-ring binder

Answer 4

get a binder and sheet protectors. i love them because you can spill on the book and not wreck the recipes. and you can slip a few versions of the same thing into the same protector. and you can file index cards, paper, pages from magazines, etc. with ease. and you can grab a page and take it into the kitchen without having to print anything or copy anything or deal with the whole book.

cheap and easy.

either buy alphabetical A-Z tabs and file them that way or make your own tabs for special ingredients, holidays, people who have given you recipes, meals, favorites, etc.

Answer 5

Get a large 3 ring binder. Classify them according to the following categories:
Main Dish
Vegetable
Soup / Stew
Breakfast
Desserts
Appetizer
Get some dividers and put the category names on them, this should do it.

Answer 6

you could type them in MS Word, and organize them in folders on your computer, then print them out and put them in clear plastic page holders with holes for notebook and organize them in a notebook with index pages between groups (ie desserts, casseroles, pastries, meat, vegetables, fruits, drinks, etc.). You can get the plastic pages at Staples or Office Max, etc and put recipe back to back (2 to a plastic page holder)...

Answer 7

They have recipe books that store index cards that you can buy at stores. Write all your recipes on index cards and organize them in the book by appetizer, poultry, beef, deserts, etc.

Answer 8

split them in to categories, appetizers, salads, soups, main dishes, desserts, etc ... then alphabatize them in each corresponding category, so you have a-z recipes for each category - you put these in either a recipe book photo album, binder, whatever fits better for the types of recipes you have.

Answer 9

Here is the way I did it :
Apetizer
Soup and salad
Vegetable
Meat
Fish and sea food
Complete course (like a pot roast with vegetables, a jambalaya...)
Pasta and rice
Sauce
Dessert
And of course, buy alphebetic order

Good luck

Mouchie

Answer 10

organize with cookies, casseroles, soups, cakes, pies, tarts, etc. or simple ABC order
or put it in a binder with tabs like what runnerkap said

Answer 11

Put them into a binder with tabs for quick reference.