What Does Keeping a Food Diary Have to Do with Scrapbooking?

Each Monday, I discuss my Scrap Happy project based on Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.

Today’s task is keeping a food diary. I am a big fan of food diaries. I think they can be very effective to do things like tracking food reactions. I kept one several years ago and figured out that yellow #5 does not agree with me. Once I quit my daily Mountain Dew habit, I was also able to quit my daily zyrtec/claritan habit (the doctor changed it up at one point).

People scrapbook for a variety of reasons. A person could create a scrapbook based around a food diary. On Fed Up with Lunch, Mrs. Q, ate, photographed, and blogged every school cafeteria lunch she was served for a year. Among, self-identified scrapbookers, Cathy Zielske regularly blogs about Moving More, and Eating Well. There is even a site called ScrapFit for the scrapbooker looking for physical fitness inspiration. Yes, tracking physical fitness in a scrapbook is not the same as keeping a food diary, but the two often go together.

Other folks, might use scrapbooking to create a recipe book. This year, I opted to create a TasteBook. I included the recipes of the foods we actually cook. My goal was to store my most used recipes in one place rather than in a recipe box, file folder, and numerous cookbooks. I started last December and printed the book in August. Yes, it took awhile to enter 100 recipes, add some photos, and and some stories to go along with the recipes, but it was well worth it. A person could actually add photos of all the resulting meals from the recipes, but I opted to finish my book in less than a year instead. 🙂

What about you? Have you ever used a scrapbook as a food diary? What about as a fitness journal? Comment below or join the conversation on facebook or twitter.

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