Transforming Your Traditional Cookbook Digitally

Looking to part ways with those big and bulky cookbooks? Cookbooks are good to have because of those yummy recipes, but unfortunately, these books can clutter your entire space. There is good news: you can part ways with these clunky recipe books.

Just think about it, when you have a traditional cookbook, you will only utilize a handful of recipes. Here are some things you can do to transform your traditional cookbooks into digitized cookbooks:

You can scan the recipes in the cookbook that you want and file them electronically (or you can print them out and place into a beautiful binder). Another option is to search the Internet to find and to save recipes. You can find these tasty recipes by the categories of: Ingredients, Course, and/or Occasion. Like the traditional cookbooks, you can print the recipes you like and create a binder. A good place to look for online recipes are All Recipes and Live Better America (the one that I really like).

When filing your recipes digitally or in a binder, you want to separate your recipes into different categories such as poultry, beef, lamb, pork, vegetarian/vegan, soups, side dishes, breakfast, desserts, etc. If you are looking for an easier way to organize your recipes digitally, then there is software that will do that for you--and they are free! Here are a few free recipe organizing software:

OneTsp: This software is free to signup and it saves up to 150 different recipes. But if you want to save more than 150 recipes, you will have to upgrade to Pro Account. You can access your recipes from the computer or a mobile device. In addition, you can make that grocery shopping list.

Kitchen Monki: Kitchen Monki can organize and customize your recipes. Like the other recipe organizing softwares, you can navigate this software's database and add recipes to your collection.

It features a meal planner tool. A grocery shopping list can be made and sent to a mobile phone or other mobile devices with Mobile Monki.

We Gotta Eat: Like the others, We Gotta Eat is a free recipe organizing software. You can manage and organize your chosen recipes, storing every recipes you have and making them available at your convenience. In addition, you can also share these recipes with your friends or have a friend with these recipes. Rating, tagging and searching for recipes are also a part of this recipe organizer. We Gotta Eat allows you to bookmark recipes and browse member's recipes.

Whatever method you choose to organize and maintain your digital cookbooks, trust me, it will reduce the clutter in your kitchen and make life and cooking much simpler.

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