A5 recipe pages for a pretty binder of family favorites

These A5 recipe pages are a collection of 18 undated inserts, laid out in calm two-page spreads, that fit A5 and Half Letter ring binders as well as discbound planners. You receive an A5 PDF and a Half Letter PDF, along with print-and-cut versions that place two pages on each A4 or US Letter sheet. They download instantly and nothing is shipped.

Grandma's soup, your weeknight pasta, the cake everyone asks for. All of it, finally in one place.

How the A5 recipe pages organize your kitchen

Give each dish a full spread: the left page lists ingredients with check boxes, and the right page holds 15 numbered steps, notes, a star rating and a from the kitchen of line. Or choose the photo layout, which leaves room to tell the story behind a recipe. A two-page index gives every recipe a number and suggests 8 sections, so finding a dish again takes seconds.

Pages for family favorites, a recipe keeper with questions to ask the family cook, a list of recipes to try and a tried and rated log help your collection grow with intention. Conversions, oven temperatures, cup weights in grams, ingredient swaps and 22 meal ideas sit in the same binder, so the answers are right beside your recipes.

Who these recipe inserts are for

• Owners of an A5 6-ring binder, a Half Letter binder or a junior discbound planner who would like a small recipe book on the kitchen counter
• Home cooks ready to move recipes off loose cards and phone screenshots into one neat binder
• Families preserving a grandparent's cooking and the stories behind each dish
• Adventurous cooks who keep a to-try list and like to rate what they made

Design and printing details

• Elegant and minimal: white pages with soft blush pink details that go easy on ink
• Roomy margins, so nothing is trimmed by a home printer
• Two portrait page sizes, A5 at 148 by 210 mm and Half Letter at 5.5 by 8.5 inches, plus print-and-cut sheets for A4 and US Letter
• No dates, so print as many recipe spreads as you like, in any year
• Margins that alternate: the wider 14 mm binding edge sits on the left of odd pages and the right of even ones, with 8 mm at the outside
• Rows and writing lines spaced 6.5 mm or more and text no smaller than 8 pt, so a small page stays easy to use
• A dashed line down the middle and small cut ticks on the print-and-cut sheets, so a single cut gives you two pages
• Keep it in a binder or on a clipboard, or have a print shop spiral bind it

Inside the A5 recipe pages: 18 pages

1. 1Cover listing what is on each spread, with lines for your name and the start date
2. 2Recipe index, left side: a table of 22 rows for the recipe number, name, section and page
3. 3Recipe index, right side: your sections (8 ideas to start with: breakfast, soups and salads, mains, sides, baking and breads, desserts, drinks, holidays) and an index table of 16 more rows
4. 4Classic recipe, left side: name and number of the recipe, servings, prep and cook times and oven setting, 15 ingredient lines with check boxes, a make ahead note and equipment you will need
5. 5Classic recipe, right side: 15 numbered steps, notes and tips, a rating out of 5 stars, boxes for make again and family favorite, and a from the kitchen of line
6. 6Recipe with photo, left side: a big box for a photo, the recipe name and number, servings, prep and cook times and 10 ingredient lines with check boxes
7. 7Recipe with photo, right side: 12 numbered steps, the story behind the dish, a rating out of 5 stars and boxes for next time (make again, double it)
8. 8Family favorites: 15 rows for the dish, who loves it, the occasion and its recipe number, plus lists for birthday dinners and the holiday table
9. 9Recipe keeper for a dish handed down in the family: the recipe, who it came from, when you make it, 5 questions to ask while cooking together and the memory attached to it
10. 10Recipes to try: 18 rows for the recipe, where you came across it and a tried box, plus ingredients to hunt for
11. 11Tried and rated: a 15 row log of date, recipe, star rating and make again, plus 4 new favorites
12. 12Kitchen conversions: US volume to metric in 12 rows from 1 tsp up to 1 gallon, ounces to grams and 4 sizes of baking pan
13. 13Oven temperatures in °F, °C and gas mark (from 250°F up to 475°F) and the weight in grams of 1 cup for 11 everyday ingredients
14. 14Meal ideas: 22 suggestions to tick (5 breakfasts, 5 lunches, 7 dinners, 5 snacks) and room for your own
15. 15Go-to meals: 7 theme nights (meatless Monday, taco night, pasta night and others), the meals your family relies on, freezer-friendly dishes and ideas for nights with no time
16. 16Ingredient swaps: 11 everyday stand-ins, for example for buttermilk, self-rising flour, egg in baking and brown sugar, plus your own swaps
17. 17Kitchen notes: allergies and preferences, pantry staples, 8 tips and tricks you have picked up, and special ingredients with where to buy them
18. 18Lined notes with a line for the date

Files in your download

• A5 Recipe Pages in A5 (148 x 210 mm), an 18 page PDF
• A5 Recipe Pages in Half Letter (5.5 x 8.5 in), an 18 page PDF
• Print-and-cut A4 PDF with two A5 pages on each landscape A4 sheet, 9 sheets
• Print-and-cut US Letter PDF with two Half Letter pages on each landscape Letter sheet, 9 sheets
• Read Me First, a guide to printing, cutting and hole punching with a page finder (PDF)

How to download and print

• Check out with PayPal, a debit or credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Your download page opens as soon as the payment goes through.
• We email the same private download links to you, so you can download your files again later.
• Open the PDF in a free reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and print at 100% or Actual size.
• Print only the pages you need, as often as you like, for your own personal use.

Good to know

• These PDFs are made to be printed. They are not a hyperlinked digital planner, though most note taking apps will let you import the file and write on it.
• This is a digital product, so nothing physical is shipped.
• Printed colors can look a little different from your screen.
• For use in your own home only. Please keep the files to yourself and do not resell them.
• Digital files cannot be returned. If something will not open or print properly, email us and we will help right away.
• Ring spacing varies from brand to brand, so the pages carry no punch marks. Punch the wide inner margin with your own A5 6-hole, junior or disc punch.
• Conversions are rounded for home cooking and the cup weights are approximate. Swapping ingredients can change texture and taste, and the swaps are not allergy or nutrition advice.

How this was made

Designed and written by PetiteDiary. AI tools helped draft parts of the text, and some background scenes in the preview images were created with AI. Every page was designed, reviewed and checked before release.

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