Our Family Favourites | Digital Family Recipe Book for Excel and Google Sheets

OUR FAMILY FAVOURITES

Your family recipes. Finally organised.

Every family has those recipes that get made again and again.

The pasta bake everyone loves. Grandma's favourite dinner. The quick meals you make when nobody knows what they want. And that recipe you found online three months ago but can never find again.

Our Family Favourites is a digital recipe book, weekly meal planner and automatic shopping list designed to keep the recipes your household actually enjoys in one place.

Save your favourite recipes, adjust ingredients for different portions, plan your meals and generate a shopping list from the recipes you've chosen.

ONE RECIPE LIBRARY. SEVEN DAYS OF MEALS. LESS TO THINK ABOUT.

YOUR OWN DIGITAL FAMILY RECIPE BOOK

Build a personal collection of the meals you and your family love.

Save up to 100 recipes, including:

- Recipe name and category

- Original number of servings

- Cooking time

- Ingredients and quantities

- Cooking method

- Recipe source or link

- Family notes

- Favourite status

Whether it's a family recipe passed down through generations or something you've discovered recently, you'll know exactly where to find it.

Please note: This is a blank recipe organiser for your own recipes. It does not come with a collection of pre-written recipes.

COOKING FOR TWO INSTEAD OF FOUR?

Let your recipe book adjust the quantities.

One of the most useful features of Our Family Favourites is its portion-scaling function.

Enter the original number of servings when saving a recipe.

When you're ready to cook, select the recipe and enter how many portions you need.

The planner calculates the adjusted ingredient quantities for you.

For example:

Your favourite pasta recipe serves four and needs 300g of pasta.

Cooking for two?

Your recipe book calculates 150g of pasta.

Cooking for six?

It calculates 450g.

No need to work everything out manually.

Cooking methods, temperatures and times do not automatically change when scaling. Always use your judgement when adjusting recipes.

PLAN YOUR FAMILY'S MEALS

Choose recipes from your saved collection to create a seven-day meal plan.

The This Week section lets you:

✓ Choose recipes for Monday to Sunday

✓ Adjust portions for individual meals

✓ Repeat favourite recipes during the week

✓ Add notes for takeaway nights or leftovers

✓ Keep the week's meals organised in one place

You don't have to plan every day.

Choose as many or as few meals as you need.

YOUR SHOPPING LIST — CREATED FROM YOUR RECIPES

Choose your meals. Let the planner help with the shopping.

Once you've selected recipes for the week, Our Family Favourites automatically creates a shopping list using their saved ingredients.

The quantities are adjusted to reflect the portions you've chosen.

If you plan to cook the same recipe more than once, its ingredient quantities are added together for that recipe.

ALREADY HAVE SOMETHING IN THE CUPBOARD?

Mark an ingredient as Have enough and it won't appear on your shopping list.

That way, you can concentrate on the ingredients you actually need to buy.

Important: The shopping list keeps ingredients from different recipes on separate lines. If two recipes use the same ingredient, you may see it twice. Quantities can be added together manually where the units match.

The planner does not automatically combine every matching ingredient into one supermarket item.

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

Your digital recipe book contains six main sections:

1. RECIPE BOOK

Select a saved recipe to view its ingredients, method and serving information.

Adjust the number of portions to calculate scaled ingredient quantities.

2. RECIPE LIBRARY

Build and organise your personal recipe collection.

Keep up to 100 recipes together, complete with cooking information, original servings and family notes.

3. INGREDIENTS

Store the ingredients belonging to each recipe.

Record quantities, units and additional notes.

Mark ingredients you already have when preparing your weekly shopping list.

4. THIS WEEK

Choose up to seven meals from your recipe library.

Adjust portions, repeat favourite recipes and organise the coming week.

5. SHOPPING

Automatically generates shopping lines from the recipes selected in your weekly plan.

Includes ingredient quantities adjusted for your required portions.

6. START HERE

Simple instructions explaining how to create your recipe collection and use the planner.

The workbook also contains supporting calculation formulas that power the automatic features.

SPACE FOR YOUR FAMILY FAVOURITES

The planner supports:

✓ 100 saved recipes

✓ 1,000 ingredient entries

✓ Up to 20 ingredients in the recipe-viewing section

✓ Seven days of meal planning

✓ Adjustable recipe portions

✓ Automatic recipe-based shopping lists

✓ Reusable weekly planning

Your recipes stay saved when you clear the weekly meal plan and begin another week.

HOW TO GET STARTED

STEP 1 — SAVE YOUR OWN COPY

Open your digital recipe book in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.

Save your own editable copy.

STEP 2 — ADD YOUR FIRST RECIPES

Open Recipe Library and add a few meals your family already enjoys.

Start with three favourites — there's no need to fill all 100 spaces!

STEP 3 — ADD THE INGREDIENTS

Open Ingredients and record the ingredients needed for each recipe.

Use the matching recipe ID to connect everything correctly.

STEP 4 — OPEN YOUR RECIPE BOOK

Select a recipe to see its ingredients and cooking instructions.

Enter the portions you need if you want to adjust the quantities.

STEP 5 — PLAN YOUR WEEK

Choose the recipes you'd like to cook over the next seven days.

STEP 6 — CHECK YOUR SHOPPING LIST

Open Shopping to see the ingredients needed for your chosen meals.

Mark ingredients you already have as Have enough.

STEP 7 — REUSE IT

When you're ready for another week, clear your previous week's meal selections.

Your saved recipes and ingredients stay in your library, ready to use again.

WORKS WITH EXCEL AND GOOGLE SHEETS

Choose whichever spreadsheet application you prefer.

MICROSOFT EXCEL

Open your downloaded workbook in Microsoft Excel and save your own copy.

GOOGLE SHEETS

1. Download the spreadsheet file.

2. Open Google Drive.

3. Select New → File upload.

4. Upload the spreadsheet.

5. Open it with Google Sheets.

6. Select File → Save as Google Sheets.

7. Your editable recipe book will be saved in your Google Drive.

Some visual formatting may vary slightly between spreadsheet applications.

No macros are required.

This is a digital spreadsheet, not a standalone app or fillable PDF.

KEEP THE RECIPES THAT ACTUALLY GET EATEN

Our Family Favourites is perfect for:

- Keeping family recipes together

- Saving favourite dinners

- Organising recipes collected over the years

- Planning weekly meals

- Adjusting recipe portions

- Preparing shopping lists

- Remembering recipes you want to cook again

- Making everyday family meal planning easier

You don't need to be an organised cook to use it.

Start with three recipes. Add more when you feel like it.

YOUR DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Your purchase includes:

OUR FAMILY FAVOURITES — DIGITAL RECIPE BOOK

Your reusable recipe organiser, meal planner and automatic shopping list spreadsheet.

Compatible with Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.

OUR FAMILY FAVOURITES — QUICK START GUIDE

A two-page PDF explaining how to set up and use your recipe book.

INSTANT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

No physical product will be sent.

PERSONAL USE

This product is for personal household use only.

You may save and reuse your recipe book for your own household.

Files must not be resold, redistributed, shared publicly or reproduced for commercial purposes.

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AI DISCLOSURE

AI-assisted creative tools were used during the development and design process. The finished content, layout and product were reviewed and curated by Useful Little Studio.