How to Organize Your Old Martha Stewart Everyday Food Magazines

How to Organize Your Old Martha Stewart Everyday Food Magazines

Are you a fellow lover of Martha's (long-out-of-print) Everyday Food Magazines? ME, TOO! I was so sad when they stopped publishing them. I loved the simple recipes, the layout, the size...and those colorful bindings.

The thing is...there were so many recipes I made and loved and so many recipes I'd dog-eared to try...I couldn't remember what recipes were in which magazine. Once upon a time, I paid Jack to create an index on my computer, but it just was too cumbersome. (I know there's a cookbook with many of the recipes in it, but I loved my magazines.)

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Also, they were taking up a LOT of room on my cookbook shelf, and they were a little unwieldy when trying to pull one out of the stack. I finally decided to do something about them.

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Enter these awesome little 3-ring binders. I found them at The Container Store and they are perfect, perfect, perfect.

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As part of the same line, you can choose what goes in your binder. I bought the sleeves and dividers.

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I ended up with 2 binders. One for soups/salads, snacks/apps, and mains. The other for sides and dessert/breakfasts.

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Going through the magazines was interesting in itself. I make notes on all of the recipes I make, so it was fun to read those again and see just how long it had been since I last made some of them. (Y'all. TIME FLIES.) Also, some of the recipes I'd dog-eared weren't as appealing to me 10 years later...and some non-dog-eared (totally a word) pages went into the keep pile.

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As much as I hated ripping apart those magazines (gosh, I loved those colorful bindings), I'm so, so happy that I moved them to these binders. I'm actually making the recipes again...and discovering "new" ones I'd never tried.

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They take up so much less room on my shelf now. Spike approves. 

How to Organize Your Old Martha Stewart Everyday Food Magazines ♥ + Spike the cat

How to Organize Your Old Martha Stewart Everyday Food Magazines ♥ + Spike the cat

What have you done with your Everyday Food mags?


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