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Recipe/Menu Swap!

Who is sick of their recipes and who wants to share?!

Here is how it works.

I have a weekly menu/recipe template. The first page is a word document broken up into the different areas of the grocery store: frozen foods, meat, dairy, canned goods, etc.

I picked 5 recipes for the week and put one recipe on each page. Then I took the ingredients for each recipe and put them on the front page in the corresponding category. Each recipe's ingredients are colored coded on the first page and in the end, it is a whole week's grocery list for the store plus the recipes to go with. It really does make shopping easier.

So if anyone wants to do this, I would be glad to take all of our grocery lists and recipes and put them in a word document. This way, depending on the amount of people who want to do this, we could have up to 6 or 7 weeks of new recipes and shopping lists.

If you're interested, PM me your e-mail address and I can send you my template and my 5 recipes and you can add yours. Then send it back to me and when I get everyone's recipes, I'll make a huge document and send it back out.

It doesn't need to be done today or tomorrow. We can figure a week to type up your lists and recipes and send it back to me. Like I have anything else to do anyway. :-)
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Re: Recipe/Menu Swap!

  • IrishcurlsIrishcurls member
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    edited February 2012
    This sounds complicated but awesome. Then people could AW how impressed their familes are with all new recipes!

    ETA: I'm sure it's not actually complicated at all, I've just had a long day :) 
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  • I promise it isn't. Just typing 5 recipes and putting the ingredients in a organized template.

    It's hard to explain :-)
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  • Perfect. You have my email, sign me up Hiker!
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  • Definitely PM'ing you Hike. I need to cook more but can never think of recipes or I'm too lazy to go through my pinterest to find ones I've been wanting to try lol
  • Okay, I'll send you mine in the morning. :-)
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  • Yay! FI ends up cooking most of our meals haha. The last thing I wanna do when I come home after school and work is cook lol. Our days are opposite so his slow day is my busy day and vice versa. 
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    [QUOTE]I promise it isn't. Just typing 5 recipes and putting the ingredients in a organized template. It's hard to explain :-)
    Posted by LetsHikeToday[/QUOTE]
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    </div><div>I thought you were all fancy dancy with pivot tables, I was impressed.</div><div>
    </div><div>As much as I would love to share. My menus consist of premade frozen meals...haha I love cooking, but I dislike cooking for myself, I find it hard to see the point, kwim?</div>
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  • We do this every single week, but I'm guessing most of you wouldn't want to go a week without grains?  I'll do it anyway, but I don't know that we'll be able to cook other people's suggestions since FI is adament about no grains during the week!

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  • Cal- I'd like to try a week of no grains. Why not?

    Some of my recipes don't have any!
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  • Irish I'm with you on the complication thing. But I'm in haah! 
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    [QUOTE]Perfect. You have my email, sign me up Hiker!
    Posted by Irishcurls[/QUOTE]


    I totally saw "hooker" instead of "Hiker".
  • It does sound fun! I love getting new ideas for all kinds of things. Does/can include appies and other stuff as well? You might have said that earlier but since I am on my phone I can't go back up to see. Hike I think you have my email.
  • I'll definitely partake! 

    I've tried out some awesome new recipes that I'd love to share with others.  I'd also like to gain a few more too now that I actually have time to cook :)
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  • I'll participate; mine will all be healthy recipes. I do a lot of weeks no-grain, cal.... but if I do have grains they're all in the morning. 

    I'll pm you my email hike.
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  • I love trying new recipes and then having to convince my daughter it's as good as grilled chicken and brocolli. So I'm in. I'll PM my email to you now. My recipes tend to be more on the easy side, just so you know. 
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    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Recipe/Menu Swap! : I totally saw "hooker" instead of "Hiker".
    Posted by CAB1217[/QUOTE]
    I mean, whatever works....<img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-wink.gif" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" />
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  • Hike, just throwing this out there. Is it too complicated to have everyone submit one plus the shopping list and then next week, or in two weeks, we swap another one? It seems like we have a few people interested, and I'm sure we could keep coming up with a recipe to swap--some could even be sweets (Sam I'm looking at you!). 
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  • It's actually easy for you guys just to e-mail them to me and then copy and paste it into a big document. I've done it before with the Pittsburgh board and it worked out really well.

    Plus, I have no job and a ton of time on my hands ;-)
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  • Haha.. Alex, duly noted!
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  • This sounds really fun and helpful. I don't know if I have whole meal recipes to share but I have recipes for sides that I love.

    If that's not what you're looking for can I still get a copy of the final document? I'd love to start cooking and not eating out so much!
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  • Sure Ty

    And Spiffy- What's your e-mail?
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    [QUOTE]Sure Ty And Spiffy- What's your e-mail?
    Posted by LetsHikeToday[/QUOTE]

    I realized today at work that I never sent you a PM.  Then I couldn't send you on my ipod.

    YGPM now :) Sorry!
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  • Just throwing this out there but I'm such a lame cook I don't really have too many recipes so some of mine are ones I found that I want to try :P I really should steal my mom's recipe box for a day I'm home and copy all the recipes lol
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    [QUOTE]Just throwing this out there but I'm such a lame cook I don't really have too many recipes so some of mine are ones I found that I want to try :P I really should steal my mom's recipe box for a day I'm home and copy all the recipes lol
    Posted by Zimsgirl[/QUOTE]

    My mom made a family favorites recipe book for each of us kids one year for Christmas. It's my favorite thing in my kitchen!
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