Many of us are getting our college-age children ready for moving off to college, and we are wondering how we will stay in touch?!
One idea you might consider is to email your college student some recipes that you have digitally scrapped!
See this article to get more information:
Keeping Starving Students Fed: 6 Tips for Digitally Scrapping Your Recipes! (by Cheri Barlow 7/10/2009)
When your children have become adults, moved out of the house, and are going to school or working full-time; how soon they forget the 5 healthy food groups! When you visit your kids in their environment, you might be surprised to find empty pantries with nothing but a few packages of ramen noodles and potato chips!
One way to help them out (while letting them be adults) is to share recipes for delicious and nutritious meals that college-kids can easily make on their own. Digital scrapbooking recipes is a great way to entice your kids to print the recipe out, save it… even (Gasp!) make the food themselves! Not only that, but your kids may appreciate getting some new meal ideas. It is fun to send digital scrapbooking recipes to share with them. You can mail them, email them, or send them however you like to keep them connected and healthy.
Try These 6 Tips When Digitally Scrapbooking Recipes for College-Age Kids:
Tip 1: Keep the recipe background plain and white. In regular digital scrapbooking, we tend to use very colorful backgrounds
and layouts, but for digital scrapbooking recipes- that will probably be printed out on a home computer (and maybe on a limited ink budget) keeping them on a white background will keep printing costs down. It will also help them print the recipe faster, which might also increase the odds of young adults actually printing and using the recipes!
Tip 2: Use pictures. Like regular digital scrapbooking, use photos to emphasize. I often include photos of the preparations if I think that might help my child understand some of the cooking techniques. Some young adults need to see the steps as well as the final product. I remember one time I sent a digital scrapbooking recipe to my daughter and it called for a pork loin roast, so I even took a picture of the pre-cooked meat, that way she could know what to look for when shopping for a pork loin roast on her own.
Tip 3: Keep it simple and keep it cost effective. Money is tight, and now is not the time for prime rib, or recipes filled with expensive ingredients. Keep the cost down and make the recipe look tasty but affordable. Not to mention, many young people are quite busy with first jobs, heavy college loads, and are incredibly busy with new challenges. Kids need to have meals that are simple and can be prepared quickly, so try to choose recipes that are good but easy to make.
Tip 4: Add journaling, comments, and event tags. It is great to add other snippets and comments to your digital recipes, like, “First tried on Christmas 2008” or, “This recipe comes from Grandma and she always made it every Thanksgiving.” Using comments, event tags, or journaling, all can add interest to your recipes, and be a part of passing on your family history to your kids.
Tip 5: Give them a binder and a paper hole-punch. Make it easy for them to keep their recipes organized by giving them a hole puncher and binder to keep all their digital scrapbooking recipes neat and tidy.
Tip 6: Encourage them to send you some of their recipes along with their own photos. If they don’t have time to digitally scrapbook the recipes, have them email you the recipes and digital photos. From there, it is easy to cut and paste the text and add the photos into a pre-made digital scrapbooking recipe page! There’s really no need to redesign a new digital scrapbooking recipe page. Create a recipe template or layout once and reuse use it, only replacing the recipe info and photos!
Stay Connected and Share Digital Scrapbooking with your Children!
Digital scrapbooking recipes is a way to stay connected with young adult children. Sharing ideas and recipes with your college-aged children helps preserve your own family history. Getting college kids involved in digital scrapbooking recipes creates a two-way activity that helps to keep open communication, while at the same time, discovering great recipes that you both can enjoy!
Try sending a digitally scrapped recipe to your children today!
Happy Scrapping,
Cheri
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