Organizing Recipes
Organizing recipes is beneficial to both your cooking and your belly... :) Recipe organization ensures that you will find what you're looking for when you're looking for it. This means that you can locate healthy recipes, buy the ingredients at the grocery store and cook them. So not only are you encouraged to eat healthy, you are also motivated to learn how to cook wholesome meals! Organized and healthy? What a great deal! The following tips on how to organize recipes will help you get started. Search Our Site < The Process Utilize the general organizing procedure of purge, sort and store, and apply it when organizing recipes. • Start by going through each recipe one by one. Get rid of the recipes you can no longer read, the ones you have made so many times you know them by heart and/or those you know you will never make. • As you make decisions, put the item in the corresponding pile - Keep & Trash/Recycle. 
• Categorize the recipes, so that you will be able to find what you need when you need it (i.e. by food group; alphabetically; appetizers, entrees, desserts; breakfast, lunch, dinner and so on). For example, would you look for a chicken marsala recipe under "chicken" or "entrees"? Store: • Get a three-ring binder, clear sheet protectors and divider tabs. Label the divider tabs according to the categories you created during the sorting process, and put the recipes in the sheet protectors. Then put it all together in the binder, and store it in or near the kitchen for easy access. **Note: The sheet protectors allow you to effortlessly pull out individual recipes as well as keep them clean when on the kitchen counter or near the sink. (If something does happen to spill, then it's as simple as wiping it off!)** • If you have tons and tons of recipes you simply cannot part with, then use multiple binders. For instance, you could have a different binder for each category: meats, vegetables & fruits, carbohydrates, dairy, and sweets. Within each binder your recipes could be organized alphabetically. Multiple binders can also be used to keep holiday recipes separate from everyday cooking, to distinguish kosher and nonkosher meals and so on. 
• Go through your recipe binder(s) once a year to weed out all old, unreadable items.• Be sure to put recipes back in their proper place after use. You want to be able to find them for next time! Organizing recipes can be so much fun! With the process outlined above and the products suggested below, you'll be organized and cooking in no time! |
