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.)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

What have you done with your Everyday Food mags?