You made it to the final week of Going Paper-less month in the Organize & Refine Your Home Challenge! Way back in Week 1, you learned the basics of going paperless. Moving onto Week 2, you established a paperless workflow. Last week you explored a menu of options for reducing paper in your home office. Which brings us to week 4, where we’ll explore ways to go paperless in the kitchen…
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Have you ever had the frustrating experience of being unable to locate a favorite recipe, because you can’t remember whether it’s in one of your cookbooks, pinned to your Recipes board on Pinterest, or located on a page that’s been ripped out of a magazine and stuck in a folder somewhere?
Centralizing all of your recipes in a searchable online database saves you from this frustration. Not only do recipes become easy to locate, they become easily sharable AND portable (so you can access them anywhere). You’ll also be able to free yourself from another category of paper clutter
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DIGITAL FOOD MANAGEMENT APPS TO EXPLORE
There's a whole universe of ways that you can organize and manage your recipes, grocery list, and meal planning digitally. Conduct a basic Google search, and you're head will begin to explode when you see the countless online services and apps that are available.
After doing a bit of research, you'll begin to see particular services & apps that are super popular and highly rated. They are "all in one" digital food management solutions--you can store recipes, keep/share ongoing grocery lists, and plan your meals all within one app/service.
The "hot list" of digital food management apps/services include:
GO PAPERLESS IN THE KITCHEN ASSIGNMENT:
- Explore these 3 options for going paper-less in the kitchen
- Investigate several of the digital food management apps listed above
- Choose your digital app(s) and commit to using it consistently for one month to determine if paperless recipe management, paperless grocery shopping/meal planning is for you
I’d love for you to share a photo (or screenshot!) of how you're going paperless in the kitchen via Instagram (use the hashtag #OrganizeandRefineChallenge) and/or share it in the comments below!
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