Recipes - how do you organize them?

[aimeebee]

I have a recipe scrapbook that I made for my favorite, most used recipes. I also have a composition book where I cut out recipes from magazines, inserts or from the internet. I just glue the recipe onto the notebook page. These are usually recipes I haven't tried yet. TNT recipes are in a section of the binder that has my scrapbooked recipes. Once I have tried them a couple of times and know they are keepers; I type them up, so they are all in the same format and put them in my binder.

[OneHotMomma]

I have a three ring binder with a combination of full plastic sheets and the ones with three sections I use for recipes I haven't tried yet. If I try something and it makes the cut, it gets written on recipe cards for my box.

Edit: I think I may change all my recipes over to the binder with plastic sheets. It seems as though they would stay cleaner that way. Plus, I have leftover plastic sheets with 3 pockets to a page that would work great with the ones I've torn from magazines and I won't have to rewrite them. My recipe cards would fit in these too. Seems simpler to me.

[MizMoneyPenny]

Before the computer, I got small file boxes, and taped my recipes to 5x7 cards, and filed them according to what it was. I have four boxes.

Since the computer, I got a fancy pants computer program, Living Cookbook, which was for extremely computer literate geek people. Not me. But I could scan in my recipes from my box and enter them there w/o having to retype. Someone pointed out that most were from magazines, so they were on the internet anyway, which has turned out to be true.

So, I copy and paste them to an email to myself, then send it, then move it to a gmail file, "Food" with a subtitle, e.g., beef, poultry, etc.

Since I get email on my phone, if I'm shopping and see a deal, but can't remember the recipe ingredients, I can look it up while I'm in the store, and get what I need. I couldn't do that with fancy computer program.

Lazy, I know, but it works.

[angeliainwonderland]

I use the small cheap photo albums for my most used recipes. Also for my 'want to try' recipes that I tear out of magazines. I use a very nice recipe box with nice category cards for the rest of my recipes. It is a mess.
The good thing about the photo albums is that if you spill on the page you can just wipe it off.

[peggy47]

One of my goals for 2012 to get my recipes in order...haven'd decided how I am going to do this.