Day 21: Set Up A Weight-Loss-Friendly Recipe System | 30-Day Weight Loss-athon
Welcome to Day 21 of the 30-Day Weight Loss-athon.
All tasks in the 30-Day Weight Loss-athon are adapted from my 52 Weight Loss Missions program.
Read the steps first, then take 10 minutes to complete them.
Move fast, act quickly and stop over-thinking. Ready?
What You Need:
- A binder – large if you cook often or enjoy a lot of variety; small if you plan to have a limited library
- Divider tabs – at least three
- A three-hole punch for hole-punching your recipes OR pre-hole-punched plastic envelopes if you want to keep your recipe pages clean
- The weight-loss-friendly recipes, take-out choices and restaurant menus you collated on Day 20: Find Weight-Loss-Friendly Meals.
Step 1
If several people in your family or household do the cooking or meal organizing, you might want to include them in this process.
First, assemble all the weight-loss-friendly recipes, take-out choices and restaurant menus you collated on Day 20: Find Weight-Loss-Friendly Meals.
If you have recipe books containing only a few recipes that you want, then consider ripping these out or photocopying them, and donating or discarding the books.
Step 2
Next put your dividers and recipes into the binder.
Use the dividers to categorize recipes by family member, healthiness, difficulty, time needed, or any other way you like to sort your recipes.
What’s great about this system is that it makes it easy for anyone to use it. If different people cook on different nights, you don’t have to worry that your diet actions will suffer. Simply ask everyone to use the binder.
And you can easily update the binder any time you find a new recipe.
Bonus Step For 52 Weight Loss Missions Members
Review Mission 19: Create A Smart Recipe System. Complete the additional steps to create a recipe system incorporating New, Untried and Favorite categories.
What If You Don’t Cook?
I don’t cook but I’ve had to do the work and investigate other options for eating smart. I’ve put together a combination of choices for eating out, take-out, home delivery and occasional frozen meals that works for me. You can do the same, too! 🙂
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And you’re done!
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I have already typed our favourite recipes into the computer. I’m teaching all my children to cook (those who can’t yet) so print them out for each of them as they learn that recipe. We are all ending up with recipe folders containing healthy foods that the children actually know how to prepare.
Hello to everyone: This is a cool idea! Once a week gather a group of friends and share your favorite recipes. Then pick one or two each week and see if you can rewrite them to be healthy recipes to put in your recipe system. Once you have decided which ones to rewrite then each week try one of the new nutritional recipes. When you’re satisfied put them in your binder and make them for your family. Is this a cool idea or what? I’m proud of all of you. Keep up the good work and continue to post to stay accountable. Good Luck.
Okay, I have to admit I haven’t actually completed this task. I’ve gotten hung up looking for the ‘perfect’ binder. I do have an online file of my favorite healthy recipes through a website. I’ll put this task on my calendar for next Tuesday when I have a little more time.
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done
Already had this done 🙂
System in place.
I was just talking about doing this yesterday. Love the idea.
I have 2 lovely new low fat recipe books on a cookbook stand on my bench but still have to go through and throw out lots of books I don’t use.
This one is going to be hard, but I’ll do it.
Wow! I am so excited to finally have all of my favorite recipes in one place!
I put together recipes, and check off the ones I tried and liked, that helps a lot.
SCADS of recipes already, even have plenty of healthy recipes and collecting more all the time.
Although I subscribe to The Six o’Clock Scramble and keep all the recipes, it’s a great idea to sort them as you’ve mentioned. Thanks for the idea!
This one is going to take some time, but I’ll commit to spending 10 minutes per day on it until I get it done!
I have a busy day and weekend so I will find and organize the recipes this monday coming on my day off. Thank you Denise for the web site for the calories. Will check it out on monday:)
I love it when I’ve already started in a daily motivation. Still needs to gather all my recipes, but I’ve started!
I really just take the recipes I know and cut them to the calories that I can eat and I try to completly avoid foods that have calories that are too high.
Day 21 of the 30-Day Weight Loss-athon. (I have finally caught up to the correct date! Yeah me!) I have made my binder of recipe’s. I am going with Breakfast, Lunch, Beef and Chicken. I will add more categories as I go!
What I wanted to write in day 20 (and this day as well) is that I have contradicted feelings when I read a step I already do! I’m happy I’m doing it, and I’m disappointed that I don’t have a mission for the day!