My Recipe Box

[judydawn]

Finally, after hours of work, I have completed my recipe box.  I have so many I thought rather than do folders, this may be the best option for me.  I laminated 2 recipes back to back, sorted them into categories and ended up (after culling quite a few) with over 300 recipes from the forum that I have tried.  This box will probably hold 500 recipes all up I would think so it will be an ongoing task until it is full.
DH was a great help, doing the laminating for me whilst I sorted recipes and set them up ready for him to put into the machine. He had a little read of the recipes as they were going through the machine and had a laugh when he read one comment on the Lentil Bolognaise "Geoff didn't like this".  He couldn't understand why I wanted to keep all these recipes when I rarely do one twice but he doesn't understand women and their obsessive need to collect TMX recipes 
My 2 previous folders are now empty but I will fill the categories in them with all the recipes from my 'to do' folder. 

[KarenH]

My goodness Judy - you are so organised!  That looks fabulous!  I onlyl wish my recipes were as organised.  They are still all higgeldy-piggeldy in my desk drawer, waiting for me to enter them into my computer recipe programme.  When I want to use one, I can never find it, so I end up printing it out again  poor trees    You have inspired me to do better .........

[Yvette]

I have that box too (actually I have the england and new york one) looks great should save you a lot of time now being able to find recipes quickly

[CreamPuff63]

thats fantastic JD - you'll love getting a recipe out now that its all categorised. Just love the photo of you and Geoff on the front 
Sounds like you have come down with a Reorganisational Bug, what with the changing rooms and recipe box (I'm hoping this is one bug that I catch  )

[GoneCrazY]

very well organised ! i can only aspire to be that organised .....ONE DAY !!

[Lovemythermo]

So JD, do you enter recipes into your box once you've tried them and decide you would make it again? also, what sort of cards did you use?

[meganjane]

I used to have a recipe box, but a little one with cards. I've put a few of those cards in a photo album now as some were in my mum's handwriting.

Now, I use display books. I've noticed my Main Meals one is getting huge, so will be splitting it into meat, poultry, fish and vegetarian. These work well because you can slide them out of the sleeves to add notes.

[dede]

That looks great Judydawn. I have quiet a few now that I have in a folder. I did have to buy a bigger folder as my first one just wasnt big enough. I have only had my TM for less than 3 months and I already have around 150 recipes. how many will I have in 5 years time?

[maddy]

Love it Judy!
I too have compiled recipes onto my living cookbook, then printed off and into display books like MJ.  I guess in the end, your recipe box is more storage savy.......Hmmm.......now reassess her books 

[CreamPuff63]

This is what I did a while back with all my tried and true favourites collected over the past 2 years. I did a contents page, conversion table, 1 recipe per page front & back and got it bound. Best thing I ever did, and now working on Volume 2

[judydawn]

LMT, it is just a normal A4 print out from the forum and then laminated to give it body to stand - handy because just the recipe I need can be removed from the box and it can be wiped clean. The photo is of a nice clean print out with no notes on it but a lot have changes and alternative suggestions written on them which I decided to leave there as printing out or typing my own with the changes would have been far too time consuming.  I had a file where I put any recipe I'd made and liked but it was so full that the edges of the paper were all starting to fold in and it was getting very messy.  This one will stay just as it is.  I would have as many again in another file that I have not yet tried and all the while more and more recipes go on this forum on a daily basis that sound just too good to resist so it is an ongoing 'hobby' of mine.

[judydawn]

Thanks for all the compliments, this idea was a long time in the making. Love seeing what others have done with their recipes too, it sure keeps us busy 

CP63, DH thought that comment was very funny    This was quite a relaxing thing to do after my recent 'changing rooms' frenzy that I decided to do. Working with paper is a darn sight easier than moving furniture around on your own

[Cornish Cream]

Your recipe box looks lovely Judy, great team work.   CP's your comments made me giggle this morning about the photo on the box.

[em]

wow judy looks great. i wish i had the patience to be that organised! i just have printouts in a display folder.

[achookwoman]

Judy,  I am going out to buy a laminator, because your system is so much better than mine. Love it.  Especially being able to wipe the goo off the recipe.  Maybe you would like to come over and stay for a week ,  with your DH, and get me organized.?