Death by clipped recipes. Life by Living Cookbook.

I think my love of recipes from newspapers, magazines, those cards that get sent to you in the mail as a try these & buy the rest of us advertisements, etc. are going to be the death of me. I’ve spent years amassing clipped recipes & other loose recipes that have never found a good or even mediocre home never mind an organized one as I save my recipe box for those recipes that I’ve tried & liked & those that are my go to or family recipes. I recently discovered, purchased & started using Living Cookbook. I am in love. It’s an amazing program & I haven’t even used most let alone all of it’s features. Thanks to Living Cookbook & my multifunction inkjet printer all of those loose recipes are getting scanned, captured in to Living Cookbook & the paper copy is going in to recycle. Since my computer is a notebook I can just take it to the kitchen with me & set on a shelf where it wont be risking injury or death or I can print the recipe out & use the print out. I’ve been scanning recipes like a possessed mad woman & while I’ve gotten through a lot I swear it’s project without an end in site. Living Cookbook is great as it lets you organize your recipes however you want in to as many cookbooks with as many or as few “chapters” as you like. I’ve created several cookbooks all with the same “chapters” to organize my recipes. I have a cookbook called “To Try” for recipes I haven’t tried yet, one called “Tried & Liked” for those recipes I’ve tried & liked enough that I want to keep around, & finally one called “Tried & True” for those recipes that are my go to recipes or are recipes that have been in my family for years. The feature I’m currently loving is the feature that lets me capture recipes in to the program from the internet or a document on my computer by copying & pasting it into Living Cookbook. Which is why I’m spending many many hours scanning my loose recipes in to my computer because even with having to do some editing/correcting entering the recipes by scanning & then copying & pasting is much faster & more accurate than if I was to type them in.

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