Cook'n Vegetarian

by DVO Enterprises

Product Features

• The diet choice for many world cultures for millennia, vegetarian cuisine is widely recognized as innovative, exciting, and appetizing as well as healthy. With Cook n Vegetarian, you have the benefit of healthy foods in half the time. System Requirements: Pentium processor or better, Windows 95/98/2000/NT, 8 MB RAM, 2x CD-ROM drive, 10 MB free hard drive space. Format: WIN 95,98,ME,NT,2000,

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000056B62
• Item model number: 2041122
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 6, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,734 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #31 in Software > Education & Reference > Arts & Culture

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

It won't braise the tofu, but the Cook'n Vegetarian package will do almost everything else to help prepare healthy, meat-free meals. Installation and setup are as simple as breaking an egg, and both novice cooks and expert chefs will appreciate the easy-to-use applications included.

There are hundreds of vegetarian recipes tucked away inside--soups, entrees, desserts, and more--and a simple system for adding new ones. Colorful photos illustrate the recipes and will motivate more than one shopping trip; a convenient utility will tally what's needed automatically and print lists organized by grocery aisle and price. Users interested in keeping track of their nutritional intake will also find it easy to score calories, fat, cholesterol, and other variables and adjust accordingly. The menu planner uses an intuitive drag-and-drop menu to add healthy dishes and complete meals to weekly or monthly lists; integrated with the shopping and nutritional utilities, this makes long-term health and budget planning a breeze.

Cooks who want to keep their computers away from pots of boiling water can print individual recipes on 3-by-5 cards for kitchen reference. Though a little less glamorous without the pictures, they're sure to save money on hardware maintenance. Those leery of using software to help in the kitchen would do well to invest a little money and time in Cook'n Vegetarian--the easy improvements in health maintenance, budgeting, and efficiency should convince anyone that information wants to be fat-free. --Rob Lightner

Product Description

The diet choice for many world cultures for millennia vegetarian cuisine is widely recognized as innovative exciting and appetizing as well as healthy. With Cook n Vegetarian you have the benefit of healthy foods in half the time.System Requirements:Pentium processor or better Windows 95/98/2000/NT 8 MB RAM 2x CD-ROM drive 10 MB free hard drive space.Format: WIN 9598MENT2000XP Genre: REFERENCE / LIFESTYLE Rating:  UPC: 615029000315

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for vegetarians; clunky, non-intuitive interface, January 1, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Cook'n Vegetarian (CD-ROM)

I was looking forward to a product aimed at vegetarians. Somehow, a food listing that includes bacon bits, bacon drippings, and anchovies is missing the point (so far I've only gotten to the B's in deleting non-vegetarian ingredients and recipes). Some people confusedly think eating chicken or fish qualifies them as a vegetarian, so maybe that is the audience this program seeks (although that still doesn't explain the bacon). Earlier I posted my inability to customize nutrition information. A quick response from support showed me how...the information was not located in the manual and was not at all intuitive (and I work in computers all day every day).

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money, May 10, 2001

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Wickady (Swanville, ME USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cook'n Vegetarian (CD-ROM)

Unless you need directions for how to make mini-pizzas out of a slice of bread, sauce, and cheese, you'll be better off with another program. Not easy to navigate around, either.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this software, August 12, 2003

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"stephanieberry" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cook'n Vegetarian (CD-ROM)

Cook'n for Vegetarians comes with tons of Vegetarian recipes that are delicious, and such a variety. The software is perfect for entering your own recipes. And for those of us who are watching our weight too, you can enter your own nutritional information for any lite ingredient and the software will automatically compute the recipe's nutritional value for you. Also, I host parties for my family often and it's so easy to change the number of people you'd like to serve and the program automatically changes the ingredient amounts for you! I've added more recipe cookbook titles to my collection since and loved them all. You can download the cookbooks once you have the software from [local website]. I give it 5 stars!