Kept Simple Slipper Digital
Recipe card system - $12 Get the system

Twenty dinners you already know how to make.

A printable card system for the nights you don't want to think about dinner - five cards a week, one shopping list, and a place to mark what's actually worth cooking again.

In short

The Kept Simple Printable Recipe Card System is a $12 digital download built around 20 photographed dinner cards, a weekly menu card, a shopping list and a reusable blank-card builder. It turns a small set of repeatable meals into a weekly choose, shop, cook and rate routine instead of another folder of saved recipes.

Get the system - $12 Instant download · Letter & A4 · Print at home
20Recipes
3Print styles
1Repeatable system
Sheet-pan chicken fajitas, one of the twenty recipes
A finished Kept Simple recipe card, dark Letter edition
20 cards, ready to print

The hard part was never finding a new recipe.
It's deciding, again, at 5pm on a Tuesday.

Kept Simple isn't two hundred recipes you'll open once and forget. It's twenty, built to go into rotation - plus the cards that turn them into an actual week: a place to plan five meals, one list to shop from, and a rating for every recipe so the keepers rise to the top.

Start here

How to use the system

Four small habits. Repeat weekly, and the planning mostly disappears.

1

Pick five

Choose five recipe cards for the week. Put the quickest meals on your busiest nights.

2

Shop once

Transfer only what you need to the shopping list card. Check your cupboard first.

3

Rate the repeat

After dinner, mark whether the recipe stays, gets tweaked, or leaves the rotation.

4

Build your own

Use the blank cards or the included browser builder to add family recipes.

Best results: don't plan the perfect month. Build a reliable set of 8 to 12 meals you can repeat without thinking.
What's inside

Everything in the box

The cards

20 finished recipes, ready to print

Every card carries the full recipe - ingredients, method, and timing - next to a matched food photo, with a cooked-it tracker, a repeat rating, and a next-time note built into the bottom of the card.

  • Chicken, beef, seafood, tofu and egg mains, plus quick breakfasts and pack-ahead lunches
  • Prep, cook and total time printed on every card
  • A "make it yours" note on each recipe, for swapping in what's already in your fridge
Recipe card for Classic Chicken Stir Fry, dark Letter edition
The system

The four cards that make it repeatable

The recipes are the start. These are what turn twenty printouts into a week that runs on its own.

  • Weekly menu card - five meals, one glance, with a prep-ahead column
  • Shopping list card - sorted into produce, protein/fridge, pantry, freezer
  • Pantry inventory + repeat list - what to use first, and which recipes are becoming keepers
  • Reusable blank recipe card - write in your own family recipes by hand
Weekly menu card
Weekly menu
Shopping list card
Shopping list
Pantry inventory and repeat list card
Pantry + repeats
Blank reusable recipe card
Blank card
Every kitchen, every printer

Four print editions, one set of recipes

Print in whichever style fits the moment - a moody dark set for a binder, a light set for the fridge, A4 for outside the US, or a no-photo, ink-friendly edition for the printer you don't want to babysit.

Dark Letter edition sample
DarkLetter, photographed
Light Letter edition sample
LightLetter, photographed
Light A4 edition sample
LightA4, photographed
Print-saver Letter edition sample
Print-saverLetter, text-only
The bonus tool

An interactive recipe-card builder

A self-contained page: type a recipe once, watch it lay out in the Kept Simple card style as you go, then print it or save it as a PDF. Nothing you type leaves your own browser.

  • Works offline, no account or upload required
  • Matches the card layout of the full set
  • Comes with a 3-card feeder sample, so you can try the format first
Recipe name
Ingredients
Method
Time / notes
Six of twenty

A rotation built for real weeknights

Protein-forward mains, five-minute breakfasts, and pack-ahead lunches - twenty cards, all built the same repeatable way.

Classic Chicken Stir Fry

Classic Chicken Stir Fry

42g protein · 25 min
Baked Salmon and Vegetables

Baked Salmon & Veg

39g protein · 26 min
Protein Pancakes with berries

Protein Pancakes

34g protein · 13 min
Shrimp and Quinoa Bowl

Shrimp & Quinoa Bowl

35g protein · 22 min
Peanut Chicken Rice Bowl

Peanut Chicken Rice Bowl

40g protein · 25 min
Chicken Burrito Bowl

Chicken Burrito Bowl

40g protein · 22 min
"Three planned dinners plus two leftovers or flexible meals is still a plan. Leave room for real life."
The Kept Simple minimum-plan rule
Printable Recipe Card System
$12one-time payment

Get the full system

  • 20 finished recipe cards with matched food photography
  • Dark and Light Letter, Light A4, and ink-friendly Print-Saver editions
  • Reusable blank card, weekly menu card, shopping list, and pantry + repeat list
  • Interactive recipe-card builder for your own recipes
  • 3-card feeder sample pack
Get the system - $12 Instant download. Print as many copies as your household needs. One payment - no subscription.
Questions

Before you print

Do I need a color printer for this to work?

No. The Print-Saver Letter edition is ink-friendly and text-only, built for everyday printing. Save the photographed Dark, Light and A4 editions for the copies you actually want to look good on the fridge.

Which paper size should I print on?

Either. US Letter and A4 are both included, each in light and dark styles, so you print on whatever your printer already takes.

What if my family doesn't like a recipe?

Mark it "skip" on the card and swap in one of your own using the blank card or the recipe builder. The system stays five-a-week either way - it doesn't depend on any one recipe working out.

Can I add my own family recipes to the set?

Yes. The reusable blank cards and the interactive builder are both included for exactly that, so your own keepers can sit in the same rotation as the twenty included recipes.

Is this a subscription?

No. It's one payment. The files are yours to print and reuse for as long as you're planning dinners.

Before you buy

Is this the right fit?

Who should skip it

It is not a custom meal plan, a diet prescription or a physical card shipment. If you want an app that generates nutrition targets or an unlimited recipe catalogue, this is the wrong format.

The cheaper or simpler path

Try the free Printable Recipe Cards sample first if you want three cards and a three-night mini plan. Choose the $37 30-Day Meal Prep System if you want four planned weeks rather than a reusable card rotation.

What is verified, and what is not

Checked on 9 October 2026: the $12 price and the contents listed on this page. Not every recipe has been independently cooked or assessed for individual dietary needs. It is a planning and organization tool, not nutrition advice.