Family Legacy Starter Kit
Five printable guides to help you preserve your family's recipes, stories, photos, and voices — before another year goes by.
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What's inside
This kit is the simplest, gentlest place to begin. Print it, share it, or work through it one page at a time. Every guide stands alone — together, they're the foundation of a family cookbook your grandchildren will pull off the shelf in fifty years.
- Family Recipe Rescue Checklist — gather the dishes scattered across your family.
- 100 Questions to Ask Parents & Grandparents — the conversation starters that unlock real stories.
- Family Cookbook Planning Workbook — from blank page to finished keepsake.
- 25 Things Every Family Should Preserve — the legacy audit that gets things moving.
- Recipe Collection Worksheets — printable pages to hand out at the next gathering.
Start here: the 7-day plan
If you have one week, you can have something real to keep. This is the order most families find easiest.
- 1Day 1 — Make a list of every dish your family is known for. Don't edit. Just list.
- 2Day 2 — Text or email three relatives and ask which recipes they'd be heartbroken to lose.
- 3Day 3 — Photograph or scan three handwritten recipe cards you already have.
- 4Day 4 — Pick one elder. Ask three questions from the 100-question guide. Record audio on your phone.
- 5Day 5 — Print five Recipe Collection Worksheets. Bring them to the next family meal.
- 6Day 6 — Choose a title for your future cookbook (the Planning Workbook will help).
- 7Day 7 — Pick one family member to be your co-keeper. The work gets easier with two.
You don't have to do this perfectly. You just have to start before the next loss.
How to use the rest of this kit
The four kits that follow are designed to be used in any order. Most families start with the Recipe Rescue Kit and the 100 Questions, because they unlock the most material the fastest.
When you're ready to organize what you've gathered, the Planning Workbook turns a pile of recipes and stories into a cookbook with a clear shape. The Legacy Preservation Checklist is the one to keep on the fridge — it's the audit that reminds you what still needs saving.
When you're ready
Turn what you've gathered into a real family cookbook.
Tasted Table is where families collect recipes, stories, photos, and voices in one private cookbook — and print it as a lasting heirloom.
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The Family Recipe Rescue Kit
A step-by-step kit for gathering, scanning, and saving the handwritten recipes scattered across your family before another card is lost.
Open kit Free kit100 Questions to Ask Parents & Grandparents
One hundred gentle, open-ended questions to help you record the stories your parents and grandparents would never tell on their own — organized by theme.
Open kit Free kitThe Family Cookbook Planning Workbook
A printable workbook that walks you from blank page to finished family cookbook — what to include, who to ask, how to organize, and how to tell the story.
Open kit Free kit25 Things Every Family Should Preserve Before It's Too Late
A printable checklist of the 25 most important things to record from the people you love — and the simplest way to capture each one this month.
Open kit Free kitRecipe Collection Worksheets
Printer-friendly worksheets for capturing not just the recipe — but the person, the holiday, and the memory attached to it. Hand them out at the next family gathering.
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