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You’ve got recipes saved in a dozen places. A few dozen screenshots in your camera roll. A Pinterest board called “Dinner Ideas” with 500 pins. Browser tabs that are stacking up faster than hotcakes, a box of handwritten cards, and a shelf of cookbooks you love but rarely open.
You like good food, but you rarely cook the new recipes you find because they’re all over the place, and when your recipes are scattered, most of them never make it to the table.
Here’s how to pull everything into one recipe collection you’ll actually cook from, whether your recipes live online or on paper.
Recipes from social media, Pinterest, and your browser tabs
Most online recipes can be saved with the Plan to Eat Recipe Clipper. When you’re on a recipe page, tap the share icon, and select Plan to Eat to pull in the ingredients, directions, and photo to your recipe book. No copying and pasting, and no ads or life stories to scroll past next time.
This is the fix for a lot of recipe chaos:
- Pinterest boards: Click through to the recipe and clip it, so a pin you were inspired by becomes a recipe you can plan.
- Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube: Share to Plan to Eat and save it instantly!
- Open browser tabs: Clip each one, then close the tab for good.
- Links in emails and texts: That recipe your friend sent two years ago can finally live somewhere you’ll see it.
Recipe cards, cookbooks, and screenshots
For recipes on paper, you can scan them in from a photo. Snap a picture of a handwritten card or a cookbook page, upload it, and Plan to Eat turns it into a recipe you can edit, search, and add to your plan.
- Handwritten recipe cards: If you only have one copy of a family recipe, scanning it in means it’s saved even if the card doesn’t last.
- Cookbooks: Pull your favorite recipes off the shelf and into your rotation, instead of relying on sticky notes and dog-eared pages.
- Recipe screenshots: Those screenshots in your camera roll work the same way, so you can clear them out and keep the recipes.
Turn saved recipes into meals you actually make
Once your recipes are in one place, the next step is cooking them. Pick a few you’ve been meaning to try and drag them onto your meal plan for the week. The ingredients go straight to your grocery list, so that recipe you saved months ago finally makes it from your collection to your kitchen.
FAQ
What’s the easiest way to organize recipes from different places? Save them all into one recipe manager like Plan to Eat. In Plan to Eat, use the Recipe Clipper for online recipes and photo scanning for recipe cards, cookbooks, and screenshots.
Can I save recipes from Pinterest? Yes. Click through the pin to the original recipe page and use the Recipe Clipper to save it to your recipe book.
How do I digitize handwritten family recipes? Take a photo of the recipe card and scan it into Plan to Eat. You can review and edit the recipe before saving it.
Can I clip recipes from social media? Yes. Use the Share option in the social media app and select Plan to Eat from the options. The recipe will save to your account so you can use it!
