RECIPE CLUTTER + My DIY Recipe Binder and Cookbook Organization
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Spend time with me as I fix my recipe clutter! I show you my recipe organization and my DIY recipe binder. Talk through aspirational recipe clutter and organize my recipes in a binder! I have one cabinet to hold recipes and cookbooks and I have set it as the boundary for this type of clutter. It's exceeded the cabinet and it's too messy to deal with one more day!
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"I'm not decluttering KitKats" 😄 truer words were never spoken.
Missed you, Erica, but so glad you took time for you and your family (a great example for us all!). I once heard of a mom who had to be away from home a few days so her sister came to stay with the kids. When she returned, her children raved about their aunt's cooking, and when the mom asked what she had made, her sister said "I just looked through your cookbooks and fixed things that had splashes and drips on them - the things I knew you made often." 👍😉💕
Can you adjust the shelf so that the cookbooks fit vertically? Then you could put in one of those adjustable pot lid holders and get books in and out sooo easily. It would also tell you exactly how many books fit. 😊 Or book ends?
"Aspirational recipe clutter"
She tends to store books horizontally which doesn't make since to me but something about it appeals to her.
I went to Pioneer Woman’s website and downloaded and printed all her recipes that I use. I let the books go. If I want to look through the books again I’ll go to library
YES! There are SO MANY recipes that I will never use! It's not worth it to me to keep the entire book!
I usually do the same, but I have one cookbook signed by her when I met her, and I can't let it go 🤣 and it's the books I use the least.
Someone made a comment of you still having too much stuff. I would like to remind the viewer that the amount of stuff Erica has is her choice. She can have zero cookbooks, 6 cookbooks or a 1000 cookbooks. Erica tends to be minimal in her belongings but it is her choice on how many things she gets to keep. I think you have done a fabulous job of reducing your possessions but what you keep and how much is your choice not to be determined by random CZcams watchers.
Who said that Erica is doing really well one day at time love from Eugenie your friend xxx
I agree everyone gets to keep what they want to keep.
I just reread this comment. I needed this. Thank you!❤
Missed you but also really glad you took time to focus on you and the Lucas’s.
So glad that you`re back !!!, I started meal planning 28 years ago and still do it today even after all the kids have left, saves time and money. My mother taught me how to have a pantry, so glad after the last couple of years
Videos in which you work on your recipe binder are one of my favourites. I always think "wow, she really mastered this cooking for a family thing!"😅
One of the life goals (since I startet watching your channel) is having a working meal plan system and a beautiful well organized binder full of delicious recipes!
I was so happy to see you added a video, glad you are back :) Great you took time for you but missed you during that time. Great job on your recipe cupboard.
I am just here to say that walking me through the your recipe binder was a complete game changer for me. I too had a binder of mostly 'aspirational' recipes...no wonder I was a lousy cook. Since I've done that, the meals have been better, and I'm loving my kitchen again. Thank you for giving permission to toss recipes that you no longer like - or would never make. And I've decluttered a box of cookbooks.
Instead of sticky notes that say things like, “Too much cream cheese”, I recommend writing it right on the page. It will keep the book tidier, you will always want to have the tip, and even if/when you donate the book, the next person will likely appreciate the notes.
Absolutely. I do this. Sometimes i add a helpful note like "YUM!!" or "not much trouble" (to make)... Which encourages me to choose that recipe next time.
100% agree
I actually love when i thrift those cookbooks and find notes all over them. It was loved
Was just looking through a thrifted cook book last night. It's from 1978 and there are pencilled notes in the margins. You betcha I'm going to follow those directions if I make the dish!
Yay, you're back!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aspirational clutter applies to so much of my "stuff", not just recipes. I keep healthy recipes that sound good because we are trying to choose foods that make us feel better, but if they are too complicated, I will never make them. I also keep too many decor items and craft items thinking I will use them but do less decorating and crafting all the time. I have donated a lot to our granddaughter and others but still "aspire" to do more than I ever will so this is a good reminder to declutter all areas. Thank you for your tips and inspiration!!
I am so impressed! My recipes are so out of hand, you've truly inspired me to get them cleaned up!
That was the most lovely showing of meal planning and recipe organization. I feel like I really understand your method🙂 Sometimes I watch a meal planning video and it really doesn’t make sense to me, so this was nice.
I love the minimal amount of recipe books you have kept and displayed horizontally. I feel it is easier on the eyes somehow, than displayed vertically.
I agree!
Aspirational recipe clutter is REAL!!! This is soooo true. 😂
I do not even print recipes that I have never tried. I save the website link or pdf file and cook it from my laptop/tablet. The ones I really like get to be printed.
So glad you are back
Lovely to have you back. I’ve missed your videos 🥰
Glad you're back😊
Yay…so happy to see u!! Missed u Erica!!🥰
So happy you’re back here on CZcams, Erica!
I decluttered my recipes while I watched your video. Thank you
Nice to see you back.
Morning, just checking that everything is OK. Love your channel, you give me so much inspiration. I am sorting out, but I am doing as you do, one box at a time. Sending you a big hug from Cornwall England xx
Welcome back and thank you so much for this topic. This is my worst clutter issue!
Nice to see you back. Great video. Xx
So satisfying! Amazing how taking just a few minutes can make your life so much easier! You made me laugh when you said, "You know I'm serious about decluttering when the ponytail goes up!"
Welcome back! We missed you . Great video.
I recall a number of occasions where you've opened that cupboard door in the past...may six months or more? And said - that's not for now and I've thought, oh goodie, we'll get into that cupboard and give it a good declutter and organise eventually! May seem an odd thing to look forward to, but I know I'm in the right company to share my odd liking of people ferreting out their messy spots and giving them a good seeing to 😊
So inspiring with the binder. I love cookbooks , I usually read them and then just do my own thing. Love all the beef recipes. We raise beef cattle in North Dakota
Another great video, meal planning is hard enough as it is! I would love to see your gardening notebook, I have so many notes everywhere and I probably just need to simplify my gardening notes.
Me too, I have so many random gardening notes and the only organization is to stuff them in the pocket of a binder.
I went through an old recipe box while I watched the video. Threw out recipes, most on index cards, where the print was too small or had lots of ingredients. Got rid of 80 percent. I know what you meant about aspirational recipes. I do have a binder that I use for keeping things I make frequently. I will go through index cards again to see what I really need to keep. Thanks for the motivation.
12:10 could you move the shelf up higher in the cabinet to allow the cookbooks and binder to stand up? This would make it even easier to pull the binder out and one cookbook for meal planning.
Wow you have so many recipes you all like! I have maybe 3 recipes that we all like lol
Due to other videos where you mentioned things were just not you, were just aspirational or not this season in your life-it has helped me lately. For example-I had a pair of high heels in my amazon cart for awhile and finally went and deleted because I knew they would be a waste of money, would just sit there and told myself this heel height is just not who I am (nothing like them in shorter heel height). I´m glad for the reminder to ditch the aspirational I´ve been hanging onto or what I know is just not feasible. I also need to go through my cookbooks.
I like to use some form of a yearly calendar to record my meal plans all in one place and makes meals easier to reference. This helps for recipes that are only used in certain seasons. It’s also useful to record the opinions of the family on all at glance. Thanks for the video!
Erica I have missed watching you! Loved the Amazon Levis jeans thanks for sharing with me. Would love to hear your favorite recipes you talked about - maybe a cook with me ?
Missed you Erica….
I donated all my recipe books, because I realized I bought them, and never used them. I always end up using my own recipes for meals, but I did I catch myself this morning my husband and I are vegans, and Had heard Paul McCartney put his wife Linda’s vegan recipes made into a book. I had it on my wish list on Amazon for few weeks, but early this morning I deleted it, my fantasy self uses cookbooks, but the real Christine knows how to cook and has plenty of her own recipes, it would have never been used , what I would have done is thumb thru it, and make a recipe sort of like it, but not really following the cooking book.
I also have a folder on my iPad with recipes I always make, like this great lentil soup, and vegan cheese sauce etc.
Thank you for this video! I knew I needed it but didn’t know I needed it lol
You just inspired me to clean out my written & typed recipes. Many I have had for years & never tried. If they are too time consuming, too many ingredients, or doesn't sound like something that me & my husband both would like, then I'm chunking it. I want to get me some clear plastic sleeves for my binders. I didn't think anyone else these days made binders like this but me. Now I'm excited to get it done. Wish I could get rid of these cookbooks that my husband has had for 100 years but unfortunately he's a hoarder & hangs onto them, although he never cooks. Lol!
Very helpful!👍❤️ off to put this into my life and recipe collection!
Yay !Love your videos !!!
"Current" is from Current Catalog in Colorado. It used to be quite popular for cards (Christmas, etc.), kitchen paper (like recipe cards), stationary, and personal checks in particular. It branched out from there. I remember getting some special stationary with matching stickers (a wildlife type, strange that I can remember it!) when I was a teen. This was probably 45 years ago :) Though the company still exists, I haven't heard of it in years. The box you had is probably from your MIL :) It is probably vintage, like me. (my goodness, I haven't thought about all this for years! I remember holding on to this special stationary instead of using it. I'm working through that impulse, like you.)
Brenda, Current is still in business in Colorado Springs. They actually have 2 buildings because they grew so large.
Thank you for taking time for you. I decluttered cookbooks but this got me up and moving on my recipe stache….aspirational and stage if life more restricted diet and stuff i kept bc mom mom did😆
That camera reversal was trippy! LOL! I’m glad to see you!
So inspiring! I have way too many binders love how you have it paired down 🙂
Thanks for the motivation. I decluttered my recipe notebook after watching this video. I had SOOOOO many "fantasy" recipes. I got rid of so many I was able to downsize the binder. Yay! Thanks, Erica!
Ha ha...sounds like you watch the minimal mom a lot :) With the fantasy self and the season of life... I love her video's! I liked your video here too...thanks for posting!
I look through cookbooks and photocopy the recipes that I would (realistically) try, then donate the cookbook. I have a binder that my recipes go in, too. The last section in the binder is “Want To Try” and if they sit there for too long, I know I’m not going to try it and trash. It is so nice to have one place for my recipes.
Oh, you could have a section in the binder of Andy’s recipes.
Good declutter of the recipes. You were honest with yourself.
She’s in her Apron has a recipe for Taco Soup. It’s delicious. My meatloaf recipe is off the box of Lipton’s Beef and Onion Soup mix. It is easy and we love it.
Happy you are back, glad you took time for yourself and family. I am going to take a close look at your meal planning post. I have 2 teenagers and with myself and my husband only the two of us like most of the meals. So frustrating! My son has braces so is picky on that side of things but it would be nice if I did not always hear complaints at meal time. I have tried to learn new recipes but still get shot down. Need to find more family friendly ideas.
Jenn, I made a lot of recipes from a once-a-month cookbook. My kids complained about some of them (like turkey noodle soup with sliced carrots; that was solved by shredding the carrots). So I made a list of the recipes and had them and my husband rate them from 1 to 5. Only the ones that averaged 4 and 5 made the cut.
Love this video! I work for a group home and recently edited the master recipe book. We had to revamp our menus to low sodium and diabetic friendly after some health changes. This system has helped so much! Super practical and it helps staff learn to cook too. I never thought of making a contents page per section, I’ll definitely have to implement that!
Also, where did you get the kitchen notepad? That looks super handy!
You inspired me to put all my tried and true recipes that aren’t in cookbooks. The old box kept falling down and dumping everywhere. Thank you!
Share some recipes from your binder!! 😊
while you were doing this I pulled down my binders of recipes and started culling the never tried recipes that really never will be made. thanks for the inspiration
Just a comment from a mom of 4 ages 21-14.(all still home).. It'll be interesting to see how your book/menu morphs in about 5 years. My kids only eat around 4 recipes that I made when they were kids. Each week they're mood changes and I can't repeat meals often. Thanks for the content 🧡
Sooooo need to do this! Thank you for the inspiration!
Insert a section for your husband‘s recipes!
Great declutter! Keep what works for you.
I did a recipe book decluttering in the summer. Now I have 4 recipe books. My main one from the 1970s (with everything), 2 small thin books on traditional recipes from where I am from/grew up, and 1 book which I write or stick recipes in that I have tried, loved and cook/bake regularly... All vertical in a kitchen draw.
I cook everything from scratch, but I do not need or use recipes books to meal plan.. I have 40 recipes my family love that I can cook from my head.. I have a shopping list of ingredients that covers all these recipes.. So I can cook any of them any day. Then I ask my family what they feel like from a few options on that day or I cook what I feel like cooking.. And some days you just don't feel like eating something and crave something else, so a set meals for each day wouldn't work. Also a set recipe per day doesn't work for me due to my schedule changing, and depending on how much energy I have for cooking or feel like eating. I do make sure I use ingredients up according to their "use by date" or how quick they would go bad (fridge food) because I have had a zero waste kitchen for over 6yrs now..and I love that nothing gets wasted!
Try and stack vertically.. It easier to pull them out and use them. Maybe in you binder have an "Andy" section so Andy can find the recipes he loves to cook easily!
You've inspired me to clean out all my recipes!
So nice to have just what you love and need for meals in one place. The need to declutter what doesn't belong in a space is always a bit disappointing to me, but try as I might it's generally my start point in every project.🤭
I am with you on the secret chocolate stash! I made a clean out the fridge spanakopita for tonight (Had some lonely phyllo leaves languishing in the freezer) I checked out my holiday recipes and discarded some that have not been used by me in years. I was planning my holiday cooking and prep-shopping list for yesterday. Now my needed ingredients are snug in the pantry , without availability worries. I use Joanna Gaines choc birthday cake recipe every year for Alan.
Haven't watched the whole video yet, but you should definitely put the old meal plans in sleeves at the very front or very back of the recipe binder.
This is great motivation! My recipes and cookbooks are definitely a hot mess right now.
When it comes to recipes I come across and want to try, I find that if I don’t plan to make it that week (or the next time I meal plan) it doesn’t get made! So if I can’t make the case to cook it that week or so, and get needed items on the grocery list, I don’t print it. If it isn’t great, it goes in recycling and not my recipe binder. It has cut down the amount of random recipes in my binder’s front pocket!
That is a good Idea. I have been trying not to print recipes, but just make them following the recipe on my phone, with the intention of printing the recipe IF I LIKE IT, and want to make it again. But somehow, it does not get printed, and then when i want it again it can never be found. Your idea is MUCH better.
Well ya certainly inspired me with this video (as ever). Went straight off and threw out about 100 aspirational loose recipes! Much more manageable now and realistic in line with what I can actually achieve. If I manage to practice these snd get good at them I can perhaps in the future be more adventurous!!!!
Go Erica ! Great job!!!
Hope you’re doing ok xxx
I loved this video!
11:39 I would take out all extra sleeves from the back. Leave 1 blank sleeve in each popular section or just leave like 5 in the back. If it takes multiple times of making and majority liking it to make it in the binder then the likelihood of needing all of those plastic sleeves right now is slim to none.
Just tossed the "fantasy me" recipes clogging up and rendering my binder useless. Been a silent to do list for too long! Hasn't served me. Ready to live in reality and curate meals there in. Progress 👍
I printed out the beef noodle skillet recipe a year ago and I literally made it last night lol. It's a family favorite- I make it at least once a month :)
I have those recipe cards , we live in Illinois. Manufacturing in Colorado.
Old recipe can be given to the food bank. They may want them? Just a thought, I put mine in a box
that goes to charity with pots, pans or bowls and utensils. Maybe someone might want them. Or recycle bin if no one wants them. Good job pairing down.
Hi Erica great ideas I put my recipes in a folder and go through them during the year have kept only favorites love from Eugenie your friend xxx
I do a binder too! 🍍🍍🍍
Missed you - hope you’re caught up and rested
Happy Saturday! Erica, today you really inspired me to declutter and organize my recipes! Thank you! 👍
PS. A quick & friendly question: any plans for you to change your CZcams channel banner?
I plan to now declutter my Hello Fresh binder. I put all the recipes in it whether I made them or not. I think the idea is that I will make the recipe in the future. I do have some that I have made again, and I have notes on those that I have made. Time to trash the rest.
I also wrote down some crockpot ideas, so I don't have to do much cooking when I get home from work in the next few weeks.
Next week, I return 1/2 time to teaching and back to full time the week after. I have been out for three weeks recovering from surgery. It is times like during this recovery process that I really miss having my husband home instead of 6100 miles away. Unfortunately, or fortunately, he is not in the military. He teaches at Naserbyev University in the capital city of Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan.
Not that Andy is looking for help with his "junk cabinets", but if he uses bins, be it clear or solid, it may be more useful... so it isn't a frustration of cascading crap... ask me how I know... Love your journeys... decluttering and health!
Wonderful ideas for Andy's cupboard Stephanie Erica will very Happy love from Eugenie your friend xxx
That looks awesome!
This is a thing I struggle with, because of allergies and a pursuit of being healthier, I've changed our families diet a couple of times.
I use to cook a lot of Standard American Diet (SAD) foods... But then I had to start making my condiments from scratch for allergy reasons... Pretty soon, I make everything from scratch, even cream of chicken. So SAD became a recipe marathon.
I've curated my breakfast recipes, to avoid a lot of sugar... But my lunch and dinners... I have very few. And my kids don't like a lot of the newer recipes... And my husband needs a different balance than me - more veggies and less carbs. So I'm to the point where I feel like I have to make 3 separate meals for each mealtime. It's exhausting and discouraging.
Often we buy the kids foods I can't eat, because I'm struggling to cook at all now. There's a lot more food waste because with allergies, I can't eat what the kids don't finish; and my husband isn't losing weight when he's finishing off their plates. 😮💨
For a while, I was moving away from meat dishes (I already didn't cook them particularly often), but I don't think vegetarian is sustainable for me, and my husband freaked out when I told him I had been doing that... For months already... Suddenly he started buying and cooking meat into everything... 🤔😆 But I get sick from the "cheap meats" now... Sausage especially, so even meat is starting to feel complicated. Expensive.
So I just don't know what to do with my giant recipe piles. I feel like I need to try a ton of new recipes in order to find stuff ALL of us can or will eat.
I also saved some to pinterest. Particularly those to try. I also created a favourites card there. So if i am somewhere and want to give a recipe i have it. Just have to be careful that you dont overload there 😁
If you stand them up it would be so much easier. If you can’t do it on that shelf use another cupboard. All those printed recipes looks very familiar. Good luck with your cookbook organization.
I love magnolia table! Try the sausage kale soup... Even my kids love it
The hashbrown breakfast casserole and pancetta (I use bacon) frittatas is a great also!
As others mentioned I would find a space to store my cookbooks vertically. Can you adjust the shelves? Find a space for household working books near a comfy space where you plan your days? Where one would store the planner, the flylady binder etc.?
I had SO many cookbooks! And I only used a few recipes per book. So I made my own cookbook w a 3ring binder. I typed out each recipe and included a variations section and a notes section on the bottom of each page. A lot of times my family will change a recipe slightly, and even that might change depending on who's cooking that meal. So I put each person's variations in and then just lines for notes for the next person making the recipe. I also included the origin of the recipe on top of the page, whether is was from a specific person or a specific cookbook. Yes, it was a lot of work, but know I only have 1 cookbook binder and it will be passed on to my daughter when she is old enough. it's on my computer, so I can make copies for any family member who wants it.
The chicken and the salsa in the crock pot is yummy. You can do it with your own salsa!! Some items just need to be added late in the game so they don't get gross. Maybe the corn. Give it a shot . You can also use left overs for tacos or make its specifically for tacos !
Ps make sure the salsa/salsa mix covers the chicken. It's done when you can shred the chicken with 2 forks. So tender
I noticed you like to lay the books down vs standing up. Is one way better for the book or is it a personal preference?
If I may make a suggestion for the future. With your aspirational recipes, the things that are time consuming, kids won’t eat but you want to try etc. perhaps have a single sheet of paper with only the names of the dishes and the website you found them on so if you ever decide to take on a challenge you know where to look
Maybe have a section in the binder for the aspirational recipes...date it and check back in 6 months..if not used. Remove...if used.. move to permanent section
Great video! Hmmm. I need to revisit my cookbooks! How’s the walking going?!
I am a sucker for cookbooks. I am looking for old cookbooks from the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. My husband had a thing about buying me cookbooks and I finally had to make him stop. I did donate or give away a ton of cookbooks, but I still have 3 shelves on a bookcase between the cookbooks and the recipe box and cards. I do use most of them, so I will be keeping them. There are still a few I can get rid of though.
I missed you and your family, Erica.
Oh, oh! Could I be a cookbook hoarder? Looks like it when I compare my collection to yours 😂. Fortunately, I do limit the overall number to the amount of space I have allocated... but it’s a lot of space! Time to “edit” or “curate”? To be honest, most of the time I do no longer cook from cookbooks but look to the internet for inspiration - and then do my own thing, anyway 🤔. Yup, time to declutter!
I do this but I also use an app called Plan to Eat - it's pretty inexpensive, but it allows me to pull any recipe I find on line or on you tube into it - along with photos. From there, I cook the recipe I think we will like and either make it a keeper or delete it. Then once I have done all the tweaks I print it out and add it to my permanent binder.. I know its meant to be read on line , but when I am cooking I find it more peaceful to read from a paper page. Using this method, I have been able to eliminate all my cook books - if I need ideas I roam the internet and pull them into my program.
Did you make the section table of contents pages? If not where’d you find them? I love that idea! Glad you are back!
I had the hardest time letting go/deleting recipes on my Pinterest but once I did it didn't bother me like I thought it would. I remember deleting 2/3 of my pins on Pinterest. As for cookbooks I have a shelf I am limited to. I have Maybe one day I'll get ready to move on to zero cookbooks but as for now I am not buying anymore and I'm OK with what I have.
i did something similar last year, i went through the books, took photos of the recipes i wanted and got rid of the books. Have i looked / cooked the recipes? no :D