Cooking a meal can be quite fast when you don’t have to scavenge the web in search of inspiration. Here is an idea on how to build your custom cooking-inspiration in your inbox so it’s handy (and searchable by keywords!) when dinner time comes around!
Step 1: Subscribe to cooking emails
Youtube cooking channels, magazines, recipes online databases and healthy living blogs regularly put out content which you can subscribe to be notified about. Look at your favourite sources and see if you can subscribe to their update emails.
Step 2: Create filters in your inbox
The last thing you want is an inbox with incoming recipes flooding your email. The solution: Create some filters for your inbox, which will automatically send your subscriptions to a folder such as “Cooking Recipes” (and skip the inbox!) when they arrive.
Step 3: Chose which labels to display on your Gmail
This may not be a problem if you use Outlook, but gmail has very little space in the margin for your folders to appear, making you scroll to view all. If you have many labels already, you may go in Gmail’s settings, under “labels” to hide, and unhide the labels you want to see.
Note: for this method to be optimal, I would advise incorporating 5 minutes either in your morning routine, at lunch time or before going to bed to quickly scan and ‘mark as read’ your daily digests related to food. This will give you a chance to already get your brain thinking about some options. If you find you do not find anything interesting in a given email digest, delete the email immediately. Only keep the recipes you would actually enjoy cooking, and eating!
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