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Invest in a new cookbook
Sure you can browse recipes online, but there’s nothing like a well-loved cookbook cracked open next to your stove. Is your current collection full of old standards, or are there some new and more health-conscious ones on your shelves? Today, evaluate your cookbooks and decide if it’d be a good idea to invest in an updated healthful addition. (Here are some cookbooks we think are great: _The Healthy Kitchen_, _Isabel’s Cantina: Bold Latin Flavors from the New California Kitchen_, _Super Natural Cooking_, and _The Vegetable Dishes I Can’t Live Without_.)
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I didn’t count this challenge as progress because I basically didn’t do anything any different than I had written about in my previous post. I like this method the best and I don’t like purchasing cookbooks and only use 1/3 of the recipes in it when I can go online and pick out the ones I know I will use, print them off, and make my own cookbook.
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I had so many cookbooks that I would forget which cookbook to go to for a certain recipe. Also, I found alot of great recipes online. So what I did was create my own recipe book. I have a 3 in. 3 ring binder and index dividers and made my own cookbook. The recipes I used the most I would put in this cookbook. And as I found new recipes, if we like them, I would file them in this cookbook as opposed to putting them in one of the other cookbooks. So, now I have acquired enough that I have had to split the cookbook into 2 different cookbooks. I have 1 for drinks, dips, main dishes, vegetables, etc. and the 2nd for cakes, candies, cookies, frostings, etc. I have found alot of “copy cat recipes” from restaurants that I have filed in my cookbook so I don’t have to always look them up on my computer. This has worked great for me. I told my sister about it, and now she is doing the same thing.
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I have compiled a cookbook from recipes I use from other cookbooks. My sister also emails me healthy recipes to try — and they’re actually good.
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I like looking through cookbooks, but then again, I don’t because I start feeling hungry… and I never actually cook what’s in the books.. they seem to take to long LOL!!
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I enjoy picking up cookbooks every week at the public library. I just can’t stick to one.
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