Living Cookbook

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Publisher: Radium Technologies, Inc.
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Living Cookbook is cooking and recipe management software. Use it to create, organize, print, and e-mail your recipes. Other features include a meal planning calendar, cookbook publishing, nutritional analysis, menus, an ingredient database, a pantry, grocery lists, Web integration, a reference library, a powerful search engine, an integrated spell-checker, and the ability to import and to export, to clone recipes, to customize recipe views, to backup, and to restore. It comes with more than 1,000 free recipes, a help file, tutorials, and demo animation.

Features:

* Copy recipes from the Internet
* Import recipes from Meal-Master and MasterCook
* Calculate recipe nutrition
* Share recipes with other users
* Convert recipe units
* Diabetic Recipes
* Add photographs to recipes
* Add media (audio or video) to recipes
* Meal Planning
* E-mail recipes from within the software
* Import USDA nutrition updates
* Searchable library of cooking techniques
* Create grocery lists from meals, menus or recipes
* Pantry Inventory Tracking
* Determine what you can make with what you have on hand
* Publish cookbooks in Microsoft Word
* Database of cooking web sites
* Recipes Backup
* Illustrated online help
* Animated training tutorials

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Great Idea But Lacks Creativity

By kks8142 on Fri, 2006-04-07 22:04
Pros: The program is very simple, easy to use and serves the purpose. Nutritional facts were mentioned, the search utility in the Program is easy to use, the program maintains and tracks the inventory of your grocery/pantry etc in the house.
Cons: The program is mundane and lacks visual aids. The program would have inspired people to use and rely on it more had the developers associated colors and photographs of the ingredients and cooked products.
The program is very flexible, it gives you the opportunity to add your recipe to Software's recipe database, you could publish the recipe and share it with your near and dear ones. You could edit the...
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Too many step to be useful.

By okie on Wed, 2006-04-05 08:02
Pros: The calculating of the nutrition was very good. The ability to convert recipe units would be very helpful.
Cons: Too many parts of the program would never be used. Too many steps in using the different parts of the program.
I liked the idea of creating, organizing, and printing a recipe to use. The idea of a program to customize and store it for future use would be ideal. However, this program disappointed me, as I...
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Just Average

By imancj on Fri, 2006-03-31 19:43
Pros: Simple to manoeuvre Unit conversion is great Links for all ingredients a cool idea
Cons: Pretty boring interface Looks a bit prehistoric, if you are into colors and appearance Not a huge variety of recipes
Cooking is one of my favourite past times, so I am always anxious to try out software like this. I was a bit dissapointed at the color and layout. For something like a cook book, I expected lots of...