Preserving Recipes

That little recipe box holds all my tried and true family favorite recipes. It's my go-to box when all else fails.
The recipes that my kids will ask for when they are grown, married and raising their own kids.

So how do I preserve them so that they will be intact when that time comes?
Now, you may be wondering why I am even thinking that far into the future.
My answer... there are many recipes that I wish that I would have asked for before loved ones passed on. To me those recipes are just as important as the family geneology that one researches.
So in my attempt to save and record our favorites over the years I have tried several methods.
~ index cards
~clear plastic sleeves that fit into a 3 ring binder, etc. etc.

No matter what I try I always end up going back to my handy little Longaberger Recipe Basket.
It's just simple and easy to grab a recipe out of the box.
To keep them neat, clean and free of messy fingers I've begun laminating each recipe card with a clear laminate.
No laminate machine necessary!

Just grab a roll of clear laminate ($6 in the Contact Paper section) located in the kitchen appliance section at Walmart.

I sandwich each recipe card between two pieces of laminate. It does takes a little bit of practice so that you don't have huge wrinkles but once you get the hang of it it goes pretty quick.

Make sure the edges are all sealed together.

Cut the excess off and there you go.

Sealed and protected for many years.
It works great and is way cheaper than the expensive laminate sheets.