To do this, I established a consistent weekly routine for our meals. AND when it was time to actually make the meal, I had the ingredients list and instructions ready to go!Īnother way my free printable recipe binder helps meal planning go even faster is when I plan meals by category. So that when meal planning time came, I could just grab the binder and instantly have tons of meal ideas at my fingertips. They were a mess!Ī recipe binder would help me corral all of my favorites in one place. In various folders in my kitchen cupboard. My recipes had been stored all over the place. Recipe Binder Printables (provided below).Free Printable Recipe Binder Recipe Binder Suppliesįor quick reference, here is a list of everything I used to assemble my recipe binder:

And I knew it would be the perfect solution to my meal planning and prep dilemma. I happened to be reading through my friend Toni’s book, The Complete Book of Home Organization (which is excellent, by the way!), when I came upon her suggestion of creating a recipe binder. And I just didn’t have a great system (or any system!) for coming up with our meal plan.Īs is typical when I have an organization problem that I need to solve, my first instinct was to create a printable. I felt like we were eating the same things all the time. It always took me forever to decide what meals my family would have over the coming weeks because I could never seem to think of things to make. I confess, I used to dread meal planning time. For more information, see my disclosures here.

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