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Okay…so, for YEARS I have had piles of recipes sitting around. I have recipes I pulled out of magazines, recipes I printed from the computer (from recipe sites, blogs, email, etc.), recipe cards, etc. I had mixed piles of recipes we love and recipes we’ve never tried. And, I would just dig when I wanted to find something.
Then — I finally did some organizing! I got a large three ring binder and a lot of page protectors. This project, I’m sure, could also be done without page protectors, if you just wanted to hole punch the papers. But, for me, page protectors worked because I have some recipes on cards.
I digress. 
I sorted recipes first into things we’ve tried, liked, and want to have again. This includes both old favorites and new things that we just want to have again. The other pile was then recipes I have never tried, but would like to.
I then further sorted into recipe types from within each group, and then put them into the binder. So, for instance, the first “half” of the binder is all recipes we have tried and like — main dishes, breads, desserts, side dishes, etc. Then, the next portion of the binder is the same categories, but things we haven’t tried yet. (In the front of the binder, there is also a “Tips and Techniques” section, as well as a section of recipes that are on our current month’s menu plan.)
Oh — and another quick note, it is important to go through recipes that you have put in the “to try” every so often. I found that there were things that I had in my “to try” sections that I now have absolutely no idea why I would have saved them. And, so I was able to toss them away.
This new system has really helped, and it also makes recipes much easier for my husband to find when he cooks too!
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