If you're like me, you often find great recipe ideas on blogs or other websites.

I used to just bookmark the pages but I found I quickly forgot about the bookmarks and as a result never used the idea.

Printing out the recipe worked for a bit - but many blogs (like mine) have frilly formatting that makes printing difficult and a waste of paper.

Enter free utility Print What You Like - it is available as a bookmarklet, you can just visit their website or if you have ubiquity installed on firefox (and I recommend that you do install ubiquity - it is a browser changing experience!) you can use it through the PWYL script.

This handy utility allows you to strip pictures, backgrounds and formatting from websites, increase or decrease the font and much more.  Once you're done you can print out your amended document or you can save it as an html or pdf file to keep for later.

I like to save the file and send it to google docs.  I have my recipes and meal ideas tagged by type, main ingredient etc and they are easy to refer to when doing meal planning.

I'd be interested to know how other people store and manage their recipes and meal ideas.  Share any thoughts in the comments.

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