How do you collect and organize your favorite recipes?

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Makayla · Answer

Mela: Mela is the only way. A one time $10 fee to have any recipe perfectly and cohesively formatted, organized and printable/shareable. It lets you pull recipes right from the internet using its internal browser - and it can even get around paywalls for some sites (NYT Cooking…). I use it to save any recipe that I want to make again, and then I can have a scroll through it when I don’t know what to cook (my husband lovingly calls it “the menu”).

Pam · Answer

Pepperplate: It’s a great way to save and store recipes. Easy to search and categorize. It’s $2.99/month. I’ve been using it for years and love having a big catalog of recipes on hand.

What Would Caroline Cook · Answer

Recipe Gallery app: This! Free and straight forward!

amy · Answer

An old school recipe box and a notebook: Every recipe I make, whether it be from a cookbook or a screenshot in my phone, gets first written down in a notebook! It helps to understand what steps I need to do, make shopping lists, and see everything in one place. This notebook isn’t one I’m saving forever— I just use it for meal planning, recipe notes, etc. Once I’ve made a recipe a few times and know I’ll keep returning to it, I write it a bit neater on an index card and stick it in this Vera Bradley recipe box gifted by my sister. You can also find recipe boxes at nearly any estate sale.

Chloe · Answer

Paprika Recipe Manager: Worth paying for. Has both mobile and desktop apps, which is what you want so you can snag recipes wherever you find them. Does a great job scraping URLs to ingest recipes + photos, and has an easy grocery list integration.

Yaz · Answer

Make a recipe binder!: Tbh my favorite way to store recipes because it's so convenient. You can organize by type of dish or course, and if you run out of space you can just buy a new set of sleeves to add in (as opposed to buying a whole new recipe book). I print out a bunch of recipes I like and glue them to cute paper backgrounds to make use of my extra junk journaling scraps too.

Sarah Young · Answer

Plan to Eat: Meal Planner, Recipe Organizer & Grocery List App: I’ve tried lots of systems (both analog and digital) and this is the one that has worked best for me. I’ve used it for almost 3 years now. It’s a bit pricey but totally worth it for me. They run a half-price special at the end of every year, and I always re-up during that window.

Claudia · Answer

I write down recipes in a nice notebook! You can also print them and staple/tape them in: It puts all recipes in one spot, and also allows you to make notes on said recipes. It is also really customizable, so you can add whatever else you think is important

Mine isn’t the photo exactly, but it’s on the right track