Recipe Keeper Google Sheets Template | Meal Planner, Personal Cookbook (Digital Download)

Save the recipes you love — and remember what made them better.

Organize your favorite recipes, track your own changes and notes, and plan meals from your personal collection in one simple Google Sheets system.

Recipes tend to end up everywhere — screenshots, bookmarks, cookbooks, text messages, Pinterest boards, scraps of paper, and “I know I saved that somewhere.”

The Creative Life Systems Recipe Keeper + Meal Planner gives you one organized place to build a personal cookbook you’ll actually use.

Save each recipe with its category, meal type, cuisine, prep time, cook time, servings, source, rating, ingredients, instructions, and your own notes.

Then use the built-in Recipe Card for a clean cooking view and the Weekly Meal Planner to plan meals directly from the recipes you’ve already saved.

The part that makes this tracker especially useful is My Version / Notes.

That’s where you can remember:
substitutions that worked
ingredients your family prefers
timing changes
serving ideas
what you’d do differently next time
little tweaks that turned someone else’s recipe into yours
The goal is simple:
Save the recipe. Make it yours. Remember what worked.
What’s included
Personal recipe database
Recipe categories
Meal-type organization
Cuisine field
Dietary tags
Prep time
Cook time
Automatic total-time calculation
Servings
Difficulty
Recipe source
Recipe link
1–5 rating
Favorite checkbox
Make Again? tracker
Last Made date
Ingredients
Instructions
My Version / Notes
Clean Recipe Card cooking view
Weekly Meal Planner
Weekly prep and notes section
Customizable lists and settings
Start Here instructions

How it works
Add recipes to the My Recipes tab.
Enter the ingredients, instructions, source, timing and other details you want to remember.

Add your own changes in My Version / Notes.

Select any saved recipe on the Recipe Card tab for a cleaner cooking view.
Use the Meal Planner to choose saved recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks throughout the week.

Update ratings, favorites and “Make Again?” as your cookbook grows.

Over time, the spreadsheet becomes your own personal recipe library rather than just another collection of links.

Great for home cooks, busy households, meal planners, people who save recipes online, families with favorite meal rotations, people building a digital cookbook, and anyone tired of trying to remember where a recipe came from.

The “My Version” idea
A recipe rarely stays exactly the same after you make it a few times.

Maybe you use less salt. Maybe it needs another 10 minutes in your oven. Maybe your family loves it with mushrooms but hates the original sauce.

Instead of trying to remember those details months later, save them right beside the recipe.

That’s how a collection of recipes becomes your cookbook.

What you'll receive:
This is a digital Google Sheets template.
After purchase, you’ll receive instructions with a link that allows you to make your own editable copy in Google Drive.

Your copy is yours to customize and fill with your own recipes.
No physical product will be shipped.

Requirements
Google account, Google Sheets, and internet access for initial setup and copying.

Please note
This template does not automatically import recipes from websites.

Recipe content must be entered manually so you can choose exactly what information you want to save.