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RECIPES TRAVEL FURTHER

Good food.
Stories worth keeping.

Two ways to collect, share, and pass down the recipes that bring us together.

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THE PASS THE PLATE COLLECTIONS

Two ways to keep the stories going.

Made for the recipes you share today—and the ones your family will treasure tomorrow.

Concept photograph of Pass the Plate recipe cards with forest-green packaging
THE EVERYDAY COLLECTION

Good food. Every day.

Our signature forest-green collection, designed for handwritten recipes, shared favorites, and everyday traditions.

5 × 7-inch landscape cards · Recipe box concept · Optional dividers

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THE HEIRLOOM COLLECTION

A keepsake made personal.

A cream-colored premium recipe box for weddings, families, and groups, with personalized cards and your choice of color and foil.

5 × 7-inch landscape cards · Names, date & message · Foil options

Personalize a Collection

Packaging shown is a design concept. Final box construction, finishes and availability are subject to manufacturing confirmation.

Good food brings people further.

A recipe-card deck that travels between friends. Add a handwritten favorite, mail it onward, and follow its journey as it goes.

Shop the starter deckPlanning a wedding? See group kits

How it travels

  1. 1

    Start with three favorites

    Fill three of the 20 blank recipe cards with dishes you love. Add who taught you and what you swap.

  2. 2

    Mail it to a friend

    They add a recipe in their own handwriting, sign it, and scan the QR sticker to log their stop.

  3. 3

    Keep it moving

    They pass the deck on. Every stop adds to the deck's journey page.

A stack of cream recipe cards beside a dark green Pass the Plate box, with a sprig of rosemary on a wooden table
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Twenty cards, made for handwriting

Big 7 × 5 in landscape cards with lines for the name, ingredients, and directions, and a place to sign and date, so every recipe keeps its cook.

  • 20 blank recipe cards
  • A sturdy box
  • A pass-it-on instruction card
  • A QR sticker that opens your deck's own journey page

Made to be filled in by hand

Every card is a roomy 7 × 5 in landscape card with space for the recipe, the cook, and the date. A short insert tells the next person what to do.

PASS THE PLATERECIPES TRAVEL FURTHER
RECIPE CARD

PASS THE PLATE

Write it down. Pass it on.

Pass it on.

  1. 1
    ADD A RECIPEWrite one by hand on a blank card.
  2. 2
    SIGN & DATEAdd your name and the date, so its story travels with it.
  3. 3
    PASS IT TO A FRIENDSend the deck to someone who will cook, contribute, and pass it on.
QR STICKER HERE
Scan to follow this deckAdd your recipe and see where it has been.

20 CARDS IN THE DECK 3 sender seed recipes · 17 open cards

GOOD FOOD · BRIGHTER DAYSPASS THE PLATE

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Packed, stickered, and on its way

Your deck arrives in a plain shipping box with a QR sticker on the side. Scan it to start the journey page, then pass it on.

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Watch your deck travel

Every deck ships with its own QR sticker. Scan it and see where your recipes have been, who added what, and which kitchen it's in now.

  • A page just for your deck, with a stop for every person who adds a recipe
  • Friends add their first name and city in about 30 seconds
  • No accounts, no app, and never a street address
  • Track the journey
  • See contributors
  • Add your recipe
  • Pass it on

See a sample journeyHave a code? Track your deck

  1. ★
    Deck startedMar 3
  2. 1
    Maya in Little Rock, ARMar 3

    Added Cornbread dressing

  3. 2
    J.R. in Fayetteville, ARMar 19

    Added Chicken and dumplings

  4. 3
    Aunt Lou in Dallas, TXApr 8

    Added Peach cobbler

  5. 4
    Dani in Denver, COMay 2

    Added Green chile stew

The Pass-It-On Starter Deck

$39

You write the first three recipes and choose the first friend. They write the next, and the deck keeps moving.

See the deck and order

The front and back of a landscape 7 by 5 inch recipe card: the front has lines for the recipe name, ingredients, directions, contributor, and date

A wedding gift your family writes together

Relatives write their recipes ahead of time, guests add theirs at the tables, and the couple opens an ivory and gold keepsake box of every one.

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Nobody cooks like my grandma Willie Jean anymore. If we wait another generation to write down the dishes that raised us, we lose them.

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Questions

Do I have to share my address?

No. A journey page shows only a first name or initials, a city, and the recipe added.

How do I follow my deck?

Scan the QR sticker on your deck, or enter its code on the Track a deck page.

Who can add a stop?

Anyone with the deck's QR sticker or link.

How many recipes does a deck hold?

Twenty cards: three written by you, and seventeen for the people you pass it to.