I planned all of my meals for the month. I only go grocery shopping twice, after payday. That way I feel better about replacing the perishables like milk, eggs, cheese and produce. It really worked out nicely. With the busy-ness of the holidays and lots of not knowing where you're going to be from week to week and last minute get togethers, it was a relief to not always be planning and shopping and just running around. BTW, it saved me about $500. Not bad if I do say so myself.
Along with this resolution to keep this up, I will be weeding out my recipe cupboard. As I use a recipe, I will consolidate. I have many magazines up there that I only use one or two recipes out of and they take up a lot of space.
I haven't decided if I will catalog these recipes on the computer or if I will hand write them to include in my recipe box. I don't know. Still looking for "da bomb" of recipe collections.....Any suggestions?
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as far as a recipe collection... I too attacked this problem about 15 years ago. My sollution was a binder with those sheet protectors. I cut out the recipe, glue it to a full size page and stick it in a page protector in the binder. The pages then are divided into categories. Much easier than typing into computer or hand writting.
Well, I was gonna be all helpful and then saw that Dani-D (I think that's her street name) suggested my suggestion.
So, there you go.
OH, and it looks like you and I had the same idea with Mariah's example.
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