Family Recipe Binder
I have always loved cookbooks, but found I usually use only one or two recipes from each one. So to free up space in the pantry, I just photocopied the ones I love and took the cookbooks to a used book store. Now any recipe that we love goes into the family recipe binder. I will usually copy the recipe into a Google Doc so it will all fit on one page with an image or just tear it out of a magazine. I also take a lot of notes right on the paper for future reference.
All the recipes are in plastic sheet protectors to keep the pages from getting too yucky. I have ten tab dividers to separate the recipes into categories. The categories I use are Soup, Main Dishes, Apps/Sides, Breakfast, Dessert, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Crockpot/Freezer Meals. The other two tabs are blank.
With Thanksgiving and Christmas I have a lot of notes about planning, quantities, and shopping lists. I really like that I can reference all my notes in one place, especially for all my Christmas baking.
