If you’re like any other person who loves to cook, then you probably have a huge stack of recipes that you’d love to try. Each recipe represents an item that you hope to make but for one reason or another, it just hasn’t happened yet. As life goes on, it feels as if that stack of recipes keeps growing. You keep snipping recipes out of magazines and printing them off websites. If only there was a way to have fun while making a dent in the recipe pile.

The good news is there is a way to do it. Here’s how: The first step is randomly picking 10 recipes out of the recipe pile. These are the recipes that you will try to make within a month’s time. After you’ve picked out which recipes you are going to try during a certain month, sit down and make a shopping list of all the ingredients you’ll need. It’s a good idea to list everything for every single recipe that you are planning to make. That way, there is no chance that you’ll start to make something and find you don’t have an ingredient. If you’re worried about the cost associated with trying out some of the ingredients, try looking through www.offers.com for a list of coupons and sales that might help out.

Once you have all the ingredients, it’s time to start tackling those recipes. It’s a good idea to pace yourself throughout the month. Try making a main course one evening and a dessert recipe a couple of nights later. That way you’ll be able to try all the recipes without having the added stress of making them all at once. Trying this activity is all about having fun and seeing what great recipes are waiting for you! After all, there’s a reason you saved each of these recipes in the first place.