Last fall I decided to update my Once-a-month cooking collection. After all the notebook was falling apart and had become much too small for my 8 rotations. I separated the rotations into 1/2 inch notebooks, made cute covers, and was quite pleased with the results. But then I needed a recipe and I could not find it. Which month was it in? You see, I had not yet made a table of contents that cross-referenced the recipes with the rotations.
Come spring, I invested in a heavy duty 3-ring binder and put them back together in one notebook. And, I typed up a new table of contents. I put my recipes in page protectors and so I used my P-Touch label maker to make page numbers. I have found that Sharpie pen does wear off, and I am enjoying the bright white behind the page number. It's very easy to get around in my notebook.
One separate notebook that I did keep is that of my favorite side dishes.
Throughout the next 8 rotations, I'll be tweaking each menu and changing recipes; taking out those that we do not enjoy and replacing them with some new dishes. I'll also update the shopping lists to reflect those changes. For all of these tasks, I use Excel.
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