Recipe Organizer: How to Organize Recipes in a Binder

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In this video, I share with you my brand new organized recipe binder! Click to see everything I did, what products I used, and lessons learned from the mistakes I made while setting it up (you don't have to make the same mistake I made :) Ever since I organized this binder, recipes have been simple to find and easy to store. In this video I also explain how I finally got rid of the recipe books I had, but was never using.
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@krystal1722 Год назад

My bookmarks: • 1:25 - binder • 2:14 - Avery dividers • 2:50 - sections, 4x6 index cards, sheet protectors • 3:58 - sheet protector • 4:50 - Avery extra wide dividers • 6:50 - binder pocket Thank you!

@findingkelly 7 месяцев назад

I did this. I'm literally going to use this system for the rest of my life. It works so incredibly well.

@helenshields9279 10 лет назад

Just wanted to say how much I enjoy your videos. You are very natural and have a lovely voice, You have also give lots of helpful hints re organizing my own life. Thank you.

@RealOrganized 4 года назад

I know right. She is so "real". :) She has definetly been an inspiration in our channel. Great video.

@debrtx 9 лет назад

Great idea! Thanks for the heads up on the Extra Wide Dividers. This is my next project for the summer. I also have a binder full of various recipes, but it needs to be cleaned up & purged. I think this would also make a great bridal gift, of course mostly empty for the bride to fill up with her favorite recipes.

@bakeladybake9302 9 лет назад

Hi Alejandra, I just placed an order with Amazon for the Avery extra wide ready index dividers I also have a 2- inch Staples better binder in the color green. When I think of the kitchen I think of the color green, so I got a green binder and I love it. Thanks for the great idea :)

@Tregnier52 11 лет назад

I agree! I'm in my last year of medical school and am slowly getting organized so that I'll be more efficient as a doctor. I now enjoy organizing and am more on top of things. All of my friends are impressed. Thanks Alejandra!

@rustybell2722 4 года назад

I did something similar to this with my son's kids (8&10) when their parents got divorced. Their dad was not adept at cooking. We took the grandkids' favorite recipes (and I added a few of mine I knew he liked) and put them in a binder. Then when the kids spent the weekend at Dad's they would cook together. This was a good Father's Day gift that he still uses years later.

@KansasGrammy 11 лет назад

I've done something similar, but I also included a section with "helps" with info like safe cooking temps for meat, conversions for metric, substitution lists, freezer storage info, etc. I have been amazed with how often I use this section, and how often my husband uses it as well.

@kaleis.2753 8 лет назад

Hey Alejandra, I am big on binders for organization! I learned from a friend that when you buy the sheet protectors & divider tabs, if you don't have extended divider tabs here is what you can do. Align your tabs up with your sheet protectors make a small cut in the sheet protector with scissors on each side where the divider tab lines up. Then place the scissors inside slit & cut along fold to the other side. Slide divider in newly adjusted sheet protector...Voila! I like to add paper in with it because I get the transparent dividers (the rounded tabs are more appealing to me ;-) . Also when your cutting be sure to align paper how it will fit inside & not by aligning the edges of the paper & sheet protector as the cut will not align when the paper is inserted ;-) . Hope this helps!

@T3COLY 6 лет назад

I love this idea ! One of the things on my vision board this year is make a recipe book and you helped me get started . Thank you so much. The only thing I would be adding is a picture of the dish 😋 Thank you again love ❤️

@JHCWillis 11 лет назад

I bought one of those binder pockets for our home school binder. I LOVE them they work for so many things. Thanks for sharing

@RealOrganized 4 года назад

It is a really nice binder for sure. Super organized. Until resently I used to have a my recipes in a few different places (binder, cookbooks, pinterest, myrecipes.Com) and it worked OK. But then I discovered a meal planning/recipe app that allowed me to enter my own recipes AND import them from online. I LOVE IT SO MUCH! My husband seriously caught me giggling as I was descovering all its features! I'm never going back! Haha

@wendyp8488 6 лет назад

Thank you for sharing this. I also got rid of my cook books as I find I only look up recipes on the internet when I want to cook. This is helpful to store the favourites that I print.

@klkriege 11 лет назад

Finally! I've been stalling to create binders for months because of the divider/page protector issue. Going to order those extra wide dividers right now! Love your videos! They are so inspiring!

@angelangethe4409 11 лет назад

This was really useful - getting to organize my recipe's . I love all your video's very practical and fun to do

@sandymcclay9739 2 года назад

Just got the dividers and the pages....waiting on binders! Making 3 for my sons. Love this idea!

@StephA322 11 лет назад

I love those dividers too. I've been using them for years and really enjoy them! Great videos as always!

@Judy4903 7 лет назад

Really like your recipe organizing ideas. I am a chef and have a ton of recipes...and the details you show are perfect. Thank you.

@barbvogel8677 4 года назад

Great idea! I will revamp my system now and will add one thing. To ensure all the cooks in the family put the recipes back into the correct place, I will label each recipe according to the section it belongs in. I am notorious for not replacing the ones I have used and usually end up stashing in the front of the binder. Thanks again for your excellent recipe organizing. 😊

@aprilbowen5166 10 лет назад

I loove your ideas!! Ive been "bindering" all sorts of stuff for the last two yrs and it is an awesome way to stay organized. Especially in a time crunch!! I subscribed as I bet you ll have loads of more fun n creative ideas. Thank you, for showing this busy mommie that im a great track to staying organized!!! Great Job!!

@kelseyjones4309 10 лет назад

The way you color code things makes a lot of sense to me, like I always think of yellow for the kitchen, blue for bathrooms, brown for bedrooms and personally i like reds and oranges in the living/ dining rooms. I love your videos! You remind me of my best friend from high school to a T, even the way you cup your hands! It's weird lol. Please keep making the videos!

@briannaconnelly1603 9 лет назад

Hey subscribe please

@roadaroom386 7 лет назад

brianna connelly To who?

@ladoctoralola 11 лет назад

I just wanted to thank you for all of these great ideas. Watching your videos and applying your ideas to my home is just so relaxing and useful. I'm moving with my boyfriend in november, and you're making it so easy to get the house ready so we are more efficient. We are doctors, so we study lots of hours a day and we really needed help to make the domestic stuff faster. Now we'll have more time for ourselves. Thank you Alejandra. XOXO from Spain

@DeniseOBerry 11 лет назад

Great way to organize all those recipes that can get really unwieldy at times. It's very cool that the office supply store has so much neat stuff to help you sort this out. Thanks for sharing your method!

@787Carlota1 11 лет назад

Thanks for sharing all these tips. I love your videos! Great job. These videos are for those people that really want to be organized in their life. Its worthy!

@melissaespinoza4997 7 лет назад

Glad I saw this before I started my recipe binder :) Thanks, Alejandra

@RosiesCottageBlog 11 лет назад

I had huge collection of recipes in poly pockets & folders and I too had books kept for one or two recipes, taking up a lot of space. I've scanned the recipes I want to keep and then recycle binned all the clippings as they are scanned, and donated the recipe books to our local charity shop. The scanned recipes are then sorted into folders (deserts, main meals, starters, occassions ie: christmas etc) in a designated USB flash drive :) Thank you for all of your wonderful ideas, you're amazing!

@wolfsangeleyes 11 лет назад

Talk about good timing. I'm currently rearranging my kitchen cabinets and came across a lot of recipe books and loose recipes that i barely use but hate to throw out. This will be so helpfull and i also like the idea of having the warranty's in the same binder. Thank you very much for showing this.

@sherryshell55 11 лет назад

Thank you for sharing this!! One of my goals for 2013 is to organize my recipes and I've been trying to decide what type of system to use, I think this one would be perfect for me. I always get sooooo much from you videos!

@breaktime5926 6 лет назад

I just got my Avery extra wide dividers..I'm so happy..u gave very nice tip.

@MrBeezydidi 9 лет назад

This will be very helpful to collate all the recipes under 1 book. Thanks for the vid! I'm gonna start doing this.

@LaJacqueline 11 лет назад

Love this and all your videos!! You're such an inspiration, thank you!!

@DoItOnaDime 11 лет назад

Great video!!! I love how you shared how you learned from going through the process, too. Where do you keep this in your kitchen, exactly? I would love to see the space/a kitchen tour. Sending "pats" for Mojo!!!

@ElizabethRodriguez-tp3pn 8 лет назад

yes I needed this I collect so many recipes that I love

@candym27 11 лет назад

I had the same idea, but was unsure how to execute. Thanks Alejandra for sharing. I can't wait to do this.

@lorigarcia5047 5 лет назад

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

@sillypiratehooker 10 лет назад

So I just found your videos, and I love that your recipes are dirty like mine! This is awesome and very helpful. Thank you!

@anniegriffiths4288 10 лет назад

If can't find extra wide pockets you can put a divider in a normal pocket and you can cut a slit in the side and pop out the tap then you have an extra wide divider

@robind7421 10 лет назад

Hi Alejandra, Your are an answer to my prayers (seriously) I just loved your video I have purchased the items you mentioned online and can't wait to start saving our favorite recipes in the binders and clearing out my cookbooks. Thanks so much!

@maslegris495 4 года назад

Well done! very organised and thank you for sharing your ideas.

@donnataylor34 4 года назад

I love this cant wait to start mine.

@kevico2 11 лет назад

Thank you for this video Alejandra! I'm a big recipe collector...!

@dancingwannabe100 11 лет назад

Great Video. I actually found the extra wide dividers in Officeworks in Sydney. I have used them to help my mum organise her unmounted stamps. They are fantastic. Love the idea. Now I have an excuse to get rid of all of those extra recipe books that I never use as well...

@perriwinkle79 10 лет назад

Thanks for sharing your ideal, I love it! I love to use office supplies, and was looking for a way to start putting recipes that I will use together. Keep up the good work....

@babikakashi 10 лет назад

I love those sheet protectors. I use them for teaching!

@kbm5892 4 года назад

Thank you Alejandra - very helpful (and organised!).

@BubblezFly803 11 лет назад

It'a good that you chose yellow as your recipe binder. The colour yellow brightens your feelings, that's why some houses the kitchens are painted yellow, to brighten up their mood before starting the day :)

@teresazipparo8421 4 года назад

love this video, full of amazing information and works well...

@irenegarcia5429 10 лет назад

This is a great idea. I have all my printed out recipes from the internet just shoved inside a cookbook in my kitchen cabinet. I am definitely trying this!! I learned that lesson about the color-coded labels getting covered by the sheet protectors, so what I did was insert my paper in the sheet protector and then cutting off the part that has the binder holes and then just adding my own holes with the 3-hole puncher. This was it's still in the protector, but it's not as wide so you can still see the tabs! The extra wide are a good idea too!

@Ally-dz9us 9 лет назад

I love your idea !

@moritagomezbieber 11 лет назад

this was uploaded on my birthday!!!! awesome!!!

@acajudi100 11 лет назад

I just love you, and I want to be like you, when I grow up! I am only 70 now! lol I cook from off the top of my head, or I go to YT. Excellent videos and thank you.

@Woodworkjunkie Месяц назад

Love you his idea!! Thanks for sharing!!!! 👍🏿👍🏿😁

@betsycosmos7786 10 лет назад

I liked this a lot. I had started a handwritten book several years ago (just bought one of those journals) but even when I was 100% sure it was a good recipe, sometimes all of a sudden my husband would say he didn't like it. Then I have to put a slash across the page. Plus, I make mistakes when I write, so it's not always that neat. You've inspired me to go with this approach and then Goodwill will be happy to have my old recipe books and my kitchen bookshelf can house pretty kitchen bling! Thanks so much, Alejandra!

@smartkylie123 10 лет назад

Thanks for the great idea, I tend to have dozens of cook books with flagged recipes and generally looking untidy. So now they are all in one binder with all of them in, just need to get more dividers because well there are more categories than I realised!!!!!!!!

@Ally-dz9us 9 лет назад

Thank you SO much I had so much papers floating around

@Yanecita1986 11 лет назад

Hi Alejandra, I love, love, love your organizing tips. You have inspired me to reorganize my house and install funtional systems everywhere. Anyway, I wanted to share an idea of something I do with the issue of the dividers and sheet covers. An alternate solution is to place the dividers inside a plastic sheet cover, measure and mark where the tab will be coming out from. Then I make a small incision with the scissor or razer where the tab should go out and this allows the tab to stick out and

@Gaomulan 6 лет назад

I like your Recipe binder idea, I am recently diagnosed with gluten intolerance and I plan to put favorite Gluten free recipes in one binder. Enjoyed your RU-vid channel.

@ibtravelin84 11 лет назад

Love it! Would also love to see how you accomplish meal planning.

@Stephjam63 3 года назад

Really good ideas for creating a custom recipe book! Wish I found this video when I started to organize my recipes a few months ago, it would have saved me a lot of time and trouble. I've got the Staple's big binder (green); the Office Depot Heavyweight sheet protectors; and just received the Avery 10 Tab Extra Wide Dividers from Amazon. Now I'm just trying to decide on the 10 Categories for the Table of Contents which is how I accidentally ended up here. Anyway, great job! Thanks

@SD-qv4ro 2 месяца назад

Great ideas. Thanks!

@francineporter4128 11 лет назад

thank you!! i was so bummed because i did just what Alejandra did..just happened to look at your comment and you saved me a bit of money!! thanks! YES, her videos are AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@kazhanlon 11 лет назад

You are always so helpful xxx

@Thenebraskahanger 11 лет назад

Love sheet protectors for just about anything. Great idea !!! I use them alot for my schoolowork important notes ect...this will be perfect for my cookbook..:)

@lindalomakin810 5 лет назад

Thank you very much for sharing!!! This video saved me money and time!!! 👍

@Thenebraskahanger 11 лет назад

Hi. I am so glad I found your RU-vid page. I have a small house and find it so hard to be organized ect. I also have been trying several methods for my receipes and it still ends up being a mess. Thank you for all your great ideas !!!!

@somerlyn98 11 лет назад

This video is just in time. I'm in the middle of sorting through all my cut-out recipes and had no idea how or where to store the. I will be making a trip to Office Max (only office supply store in our town) for supplies. Now I can't wait to do this project that I was dreading.

@ginawright6501 9 лет назад

Great video. Thanks for the tips!

@sandraperdomo79 11 лет назад

I really love this idea thanks for the divider tip I got them at amazon , need to do this asap , I have tons of recipes and is hard to keep track of the good ones

@MicheleInAlabama 10 лет назад

My house is already organized but I still watch Alejandra's videos......organized spaces make me happy. :-) I actually framed our most frequently used recipes and hung them in my kitchen. There is a color photo with each recipe so it added a little bit of color to the wall. I used Microsoft Word so I could make the images larger and use a fancy font.

@deannam3009 Год назад

When I am feeling really organized I pull out the recipes I am going to make each week and put them in the front of the book. That way I can dinner plan (at least) and shop accordingly. When I make the recipe that week, I re-file it.

@sellyourhomenowbook 8 месяцев назад

I love this!

@malabooluvu 11 лет назад

Where do you find good recipes to print off line ? Love this binder ideas! You inspire me to get organized!!!

@ShiningBrighter123 11 лет назад

you inspire me to be organized!

@ArchieLovesMe 11 лет назад

LOVE this!!

@pcking2008 3 года назад

Perfect! Thanks for sharing the Extra Wide divider brand. I made a binder of my Top Secret recipes from Angel's Bistro and put regular dividers but my sheet protectors overlap them thus I can't see the number. Excellent! Alejandra I appreciate your video. Ima a guy that loves to cook and bake from scratch Angel from The Bay

@partheniafayne9426 7 лет назад

OH MY GOD!!! Extra wide dividers!!! GREAT tip!!

@sherlockholmes242 6 лет назад

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@marieharris3022 10 лет назад

thank you!! Alejandra... i can't wait to show off my binders at my holiday baking parties :) thank you also shain08 very helpful :)

@karibeneck 11 лет назад

Love, love, love this binder!! I started doing something similar, but it's going to get an overhaul to match yours. Great idea!! :0)

@kacgifts 11 лет назад

AWESOME!!! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS

@MsSassyMT 11 лет назад

This is so much better than what I have been using.

@egypt12341000 11 лет назад

Great idea. Thanks

@zhongyuqing 11 лет назад

And I love almost all the video.here. I think they are all the wisdom of live a quality life. It is a way to love life and love yourself.

@mouzanalnuaimi 10 лет назад

After this video I will create a binder instead of my recipes box.. thanks you rock :)

@Mish4Mello 11 лет назад

i love baking more so than cooking too :) i need to organize my recipes like this! you are making me itch to move out and get a house of my own, but alas, i am but a college student on a very low budget. haha. someday soon...thanks for sharing your great organizing ideas.

@TonyHickschick 9 лет назад

I love your idea. I also only use a few recipes per books and since you can get so many recipes on line, it seems unnecessary to have books anyway. For these reasons I am going to make a recipe binder like yours.

@siimseiin 5 лет назад

Thank you , great video . helped me a lot . Thank you!

@sandyfischl4004 9 лет назад

Just finished my binder today. Love it Love it Love it. Wish I could share a picture of it.

@breezesimpson5396 9 лет назад

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@likeamusicalride 10 лет назад

try Rifle Paper Co- they have really cute recipe cards! or etsy!

@adfkjgvdjfvbdbvdkjvb 11 лет назад

good tips, thanks!

@nellieluvs0509 11 лет назад

Hi! I found that the index dividers with pockets sold at target work just as well. They are long enough to extend over the sheet protectors. Time and money savings !

@georgeswales782 9 лет назад

Thank you for this simple and easy system of recipe management. I am somewhat new to the kitchen and am moving toward taking over as my wife's Alzheimer's advances. This system satisfies my type-A/slightly OCD style easily.

@Wredniara 11 лет назад

I love this tip :D Thanks!

@tee978 5 лет назад

Love the video! Making this for my Mom for Christmas this year! Only thing is I still cannot find the brand of the sheet protectors with the top fold. I see they're by Office Depot, but do you know their exact name?

@ODEY-G0 11 лет назад

ANOTHER awesome video!!! I picked up two more binders today..4 colours in total now l=)I was so happy to see they have the extra wide,I saw that lady do a video response on your site regarding the dividers and she experienced the same thing I did awhile back! Thank you for the info!Tip re. Avery cover page.Why not cut out the holed edge and slip the page into a heavy duty sheet protector and label on the sheet protector? That way you can rip the label off easy and re label or toss and restart!

@joelmichener8438 7 лет назад

For further references of that table of contents instead of waisting labels go to the website Avery witch makes those tabs and you can customize one and print it out !!!!!

@mayata2915 11 лет назад

I think I'm going to have to show my mom this video. She has a bunch of overstuffed recipe boxes and we've always assumed it was the only way to organize... Thanks for opening my eyes:0)