It is so simple – and I can’t believe it took me so long to come up with it! Ha! As I’m sure you’re aware, I print out a lot recipes. The ones I choose for our King Arthur Food Fridays alone can be overwhelming – not to mention recipes I print out just for making for the family! It can get a bit unruly. And that’s not the only thing – they can get messy. And if it’s something I like and want to make again, I don’t want to have to print out another copy for keeping, and I don’t always want to put them in My Recipe Book where certain keepers get handwritten entries.

So, nope, I don’t want to have to do extra work if I decide I like it. Enter my idea of buying a 3-ring binder! I bought a bunch of sheet protectors and a binder from Amazon (very inexpensive!). I immediately inserted my favorites that I’d printed out into the sheet protectors and got them happily ensconced in the binder. Then, when I’m ready to make a new recipe, I go through my already-printed “to-be-made” recipes, that I keep in a folder, choose the one I’m making, pop it right into a sheet protector and take it in the kitchen with me. This way, if it’s a recipe I decide I’ll keep, all I have to do is wipe off the sheet protector (I’m guaranteed to slop something on it, lol) and add it to my binder! Recipe is nice and clean, and still readable – despite what  may have spilled on it!

It’s also easy when I want to make a favorite, I take it out of the binder, head into the kitchen with it and proceed to make the recipe. Then when I’m done, it gets popped back into the binder! I do this for all the recipes I print, not just King Arthur Flour ones, but that is the majority in my binder, lol.

I know it’s just a simple little idea, but I wanted to share it because it’s one that I’ve discovered works better than I’d imagined it would!!