It might be time to put your recipe books in the garage sale. Why deal with volumes of space-consuming, grease-stained, dog-eared books when you can go online and find  recipes for anything your stomach desires? Aside from being incredibly easy to do, finding recipes on the Internet offers a bonus that cookbooks just can’t: user reviews. Written by ordinary cooks, the reviews are entertaining and informative. Sometimes, just reading the reviews is enough of a tantalizing reason to run to the grocery store and cook up something delicious. The reviewers also add valuable suggestions for improving on a recipe, or altering it to make it low fat, etc. Between the reviews and the color photos, you get to see how your dish will look and taste before ever lifting a spoon! In addition to recipes for every imaginable dish, these sites include lots of cooking tips, ideas for special occasion dishes, and even recipes from your favorite restaurant. On some sites, when you select a recipe, an ingredient shopping list is created, ready for you to print.

1. AllRecipes.com (http://www.allrecipes.com/)
2. MyRecipes.com (http://www.myrecipes.com)
3. RecipeGoldmine.com (http:www.recipegoldmine.com)
4. RecipeZaar (http://www.recipezaar.com)
5. RecipeSource (http://www.recipesource.com)
6. FoodNetwork  (http://www.foodnetwork.com)

Tips

• There’s may be no such thing as a free lunch, but there are plenty of free recipes. Some sites do charge a fee to access their recipes, but why pay if you don’t have to?
• Many food product packages (soups, for example) list websites where you can find lots of creative recipes using that product.  Read the labels.