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Home Cookin: Easy to Use Software with a Recipe Database, Grocery Manager, and Meal Planning Calendar (Windows)

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This is a software for you to put in your own recipes. Exactly what I was looking for. Left side is for ingredients and the right side is your instructions for the recipe. You create your own index, chapters, as many as you want and you can even put a photo with the recipe. Very user friendly. Everything is right there. Click this, type in what you want. Click that, type in what you want. You can copy and paste a recipe and photo from any website and paste it in your cookbook. I have NO patience for computers and this was extremely easy to do. Customer Service, via email is the best. Every question I asked was answered promptly.I cannot say enough about the service that goes with this software. I am having so much fun putting in my recipes through this software. You gotta get this software!

This software is very easy to use and I like the fact that I can sort my own recipes. I find the only thing it is missing so far is shortcuts for more fractions.

After many years of collecting recipes and particularly wanting to preserve special ones from past family members, I experimented with several trial versions of recipe software. I was not particularly pleased with any considering the high price. How fortunate to have found Home Cooking though I first I thought it might not be suitable considering the reasonable price! How wrong I was. This software is GREAT and I've recommended it to others wanting to preserve their own recipes. It is EASY to use, easy to upload PHOTOS, easy to CATEGORIZE, easy to CUSTOMIZE with my own chapter titles. I even include Household Tips & Homemade Remedies, Beauty Secrets, Cleaning tips and other such information I want to find quickly when needed. I really do like this software and want to print my own cookbook to share with family & friends one year for Christmas. It is also easy to save to flash drive when visiting others for whom I may want to cook or share. You will not regret the purchase!

Home Cookin' is the best software I've ever used. It does its job in a remarkably user-friendly manner, has tremendous flexibility in formatting, and is fast-fast-fast! Highly recommended.

Have been using this recipe software for years - I chose it after much research and several downloaded trial versions of various other programs and have been very satisfied with it. It is very easy to use (and especially to import recipes from the internet) - just copy and the software lets you specify title and yield, ingredients and directions - and import a photo. I have found that most (or all recipes found in my magazines are also online - so not more cutting out recipes - just go get them and put into the Home Cooking program (including the picture)in minutes. The recipes can be printed, and it even allows you to make a cookbook (haven't done that yet) You can search within the program based on titles, ingredients, etc

The best thing about the software, though, is Anthony Watkins, who answers every email quickly (even small questions about how to do things) If there is a "work around" what you want to do - he will tell you how to do it and if there is not, (a printing feature I liked in an earlier version is no longer there):-( he will explain why (had to give up that feature to include a newer feature as they could not work together). I have never seen better support for any software.

I cant imagine any better recipe software than Home Cookin'!!

Years ago I had a DOS Shareware Program called "Edna's Cookbook" with 1300 personally typed in recipes. With the new computer operating systems over the years I was unable to access old Family recipes. Thanks to Home Cookin and Anthony Watkins at Mountain Software I can now enjoy the ease of use that my old program had and the best of what Home Cookin has to offer. Home Cookin has so many usefull features that to name them all here would take up a lot of space and would not do it justice. I have used other recipe programs and never found one that allows you to customize your recipe data base as well as Home Cookin. As for Anthony Watkins Support and Home Cookin I would say this program is a "HOMERUN", and Mountain Software Support is in a class all it's own. My advise, "BUY IT NOW", you will never regret it.

I did quite a bit of research and even purchased a few different software programs in an attempt to organize the thousands of recipes I have. I found that while a lot of them allowed you to add your own recipes the number was limited or you couldn't do it at all. I then decided that I would stop spending the money and download some trial versions.

When I came across Home Cookin I was THRILLED with the trial version alone and immediately ordered the CD! There are a few recipes included but for the most part it is a blank canvas. You can create different categories, add pictures, allows for adjustment of servings without changing the ingredients but if that is what you are looking for, well that option is there as well.

While I did order this through Amazon, I also had to speak with customer service and I have to say this company has the best I have come across in some time! Quick response and went out of their way to find a solution to the issue I had!

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A RECIPE DATABASE SOFTWARE....LOOK NO FURTHER!

I was a computer virgin and one of my first task was to find a software program to put all of our family recipes on. After researching many and trying out sample ones I tried Home Cookin and immediately new it was for me. I couldn't stand some of the other ones that you had to place something in a little box. I'm an excellent typist and typing was much quicker for me and less irritating than lining up a box. I love to put my PC on the counter and make the font bigger to see and cook away. Whenever one of my adult children want to make something and they can't remember what the ingredients are at the grocery store, they simply have me e-mail the recipe to their phone so they can pick up the ingredients before they get home from work. Had a friend who was staying in Florida for the winter and wanted my taco dip recipe that she forgot up north, so I simply sent it to her and it was a hit. The format is really easy and very simple to use. I can make up my own categories and edit anything whenever I want to along with my own little notes to myself. You are not limited to someone who has probably never cooked before and use their limited outline. Believe me if I could figure this program out, any one can.