- Platform: Windows 7 / Me / 98 / 2000 / XP / Vista
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Living Cookbook makes it easy to enter your recipes. You can type them in, scan them (using the OCR software that came with your scanner) or copy them from the Internet. The software also makes it easy to transfer your recipe collection from other recipe management programs such as MasterCook, Meal-Master and BigOven. |
You can print your recipes on any paper size supported by your printer. This includes US Letter, A4, index cards (3x5, 4x6 and 5x9) and many more. You can even print on Avery 5389 (two perforated 4x6 cards on an 8.5x11 sheet) and Avery 5388 (three perforated 3x5 cards on an 8.5x11 sheet). |
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The meal planning calendar lets you drag and drop your recipes onto the calendar. You can view your meal plans by day, week or month. Creating a shopping list for a meal plan is as simple as clicking on the appropriate days and selecting "Add to Grocery List" from the Action menu. |
Living Cookbook lets you calculate nutrition for any recipe, ingredient, menu or meal plan. You can customize your display to show over 150 different nutrients including calories, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and more. You can even calculate Weight Watchers Points. |
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Living Cookbook makes it easy to publish your own cookbook complete with table of contents, pagination and index. You can preview and print your cookbook directly from Living Cookbook or export it as a Microsoft Word (DOCX) document for additional editing. |
Living Cookbook can create shopping lists organized by grocery aisle. Just add your ingredients, recipes, menus and meal plans and the software will do the rest. It even knows how to convert units that you cook with (e.g. "10 Tbs minced garlic") into units that you shop for (e.g. "1 head garlic"). If you enter the prices of your most commonly shopped-for ingredients, Living Cookbook can calculate the total cost of your grocery list as well as subtotals for each store. |
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Living Cookbook has a built-in web browser that makes it easy to save links to your favorite recipe websites. It even has a built-in RSS feed reader so you can subscribe to "recipe of the day" and other cooking-related RSS feeds. |
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
146 of 149 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Warning: Living Cookbook is Addicting! :-),
This review is from: Living Cookbook 2008 (CD-ROM)
Ok, I have literally tried all of the cooking software out there and when I tried Living Cookbook over 2 years ago - I was hooked! It is by far the best and most amazing program for organizing your recipes in one place. It is very robust, but easy to learn... so you can use it for a few recipes or thousands! I recently upgraded to the latest version `Living Cookbook 2008' and I'm glad I did... it's fully compatible with my new Vista Laptop and I love the ability it has to customize everything (from the fonts and colors, to the recipe layout and more).
Since I started meal planning, our family has saved over $200 extra on groceries each month! And in case anyone might be wondering, we shop and eat all organically. Living Cookbook has no troubles keeping up with all my custom foods - and lets me enter in as many new ingredients as I want. My favorite features are the Meal Planning; Inventory; and Shopping List capabilities... no more guessing when I go to the store. It literally lets me drag and drop recipes/meals to a calendar, and it will generate a shopping list of what I need to buy... but it also takes into account the inventory I already have on hand - so no unnecessary purchases! If you take the time to enter in food prices, it can also calculate shopping costs too! The only thing I'd like to see added is the ability to adjust my inventory on hand `on the fly' within the inventory table list. But Lee has assured us, that this is one of the upgrades he has planned for a near-future software update. I must also comment on the outstanding support offered by 'Lee' (the software's developer) on the support forum. How often do you buy something and have the ability to ask questions directly from the source!? On the rare occasion when I've had a question, Lee's response time has been quicker than when I call my own Mother for help! :-) My one warning to new users... Beware - this software is addicting! My husband recently came out of the bedroom half asleep to inform me that it was 1:30 in the morning - I had been glued to my new upgrade to Living Cookbook 2008 and was having so much fun that I didn't realized so much time had passed! Enjoy & God Bless!
73 of 74 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Has every feature on my wish list (and more!),
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This review is from: Living Cookbook 2008 (CD-ROM)
I'm a computer programmer and an avid cook, and for years I fantasized (and even tried to write) my ideal recipe database program. After admitting defeat, I rigorously explored several websites and software packages, including Now You're Cooking and BigOven, but when I got to Living Cookbook, I knew I'd found everything that I was looking for.
I don't even use the menu planning/shopping list features -- my favorite features are: (1) It's ridiculously easy to snag recipes from websites and other sources and get them into the Living Cookbook format. (2) If you're not interested in using a feature, it's easy to change your settings so that you don't have to see it on your recipes or exports. (3) If you like having your recipes on paper in your kitchen, it's ridiculously easy to publish a beautiful paper cookbook with table of contents and index (this was one of my main goals) and to customize its appearance. (4) There's incredibly clear and comprehensive documentation included in the software, as well as excellent support available on the online forums. If you're looking for flexible, robust, well-supported recipe software, look no further. This product would be worth twice the price.
46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for some things, absolutely terrible for others,
By TJW "Tim Weichman" (Merlin, Oregon) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Living Cookbook 2008 (CD-ROM)
When I bought this program I was fully expecting to come back and submit a glowing 5-star review. But after using the program (pretty much every aspect of it) for about 3 months, I have to say I'm very disappointed. Depending on how you want to use the program it could be great, or it could be a total mess.
First, the good: ================= If you're looking for a way to capture all your recipes from paper, organize them, and have them on hand for easy retrieval, this is your program. It has an absolutely brilliant recipe import & capture system. You paste your recipe into a little capture box, then there's a really nifty color-coded set of buttons you use to tell the program which parts of the pasted text are the title, list of ingredients, serving size, cooking procedure, etc., etc., and then it handles the rest. I used this feature extensively to transfer a ton of recipes from photo-copied cookbook pages that I scanned into my computer. Saves A LOT of typing. You'll still need to review the converted recipe to make sure it understood the 1/2 and 1/4 designations used for half and quarter measures in cups, tablespoons, etc. But for the most part, really great functionality. The shopping list feature is also pretty good. Assign recipes and # of servings to various meals spread over as many days as you like, then tell the system to make a shopping list for all meals planned on those days. It handles the rest and gives you a list of everything you need to buy. Great. Now the bad: ============= The one huge drawback to this program comes in the area where every cooking program should be designed to excel. Meal planning. It's terrible for this. I mean really bad. Now, to be fair, it has the ability to do everything you'll need to do when it comes to planning your meals. The problem is that it's incredibly inflexible -- making it a nightmare to make small but necessary changes to your meal plan. The way I wanted to use the program was to specify all the meals I'm going to make for the next week by assigning them to breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, & dinner for each day of the week. The problem is that the program makes this process incredibly difficult every step of the way. The best I've come up with so far is to have 2 workspace windows open at once. One to show the recipes and one to show the meal planning calendar. Then I drag and drop them from the recipe list onto the day I want to cook them. Not so bad so far. But here's the first obstacle you'll run into. The meal planning calendar is rigid in size. When you add recipes for breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack, chances are you'll fill up the available view. So then when you add "dinner" it gets hidden below the others. You can't see it down there in the monthly calendar view because there's no scrollbar. There's a little "down arrow" that tells you there's more below, but you can't see it. So now you have to click to get the Weekly view instead of the Monthly. Depending on the day and the number of items this may or may not fix the problem. If it doesn't then you need to switch to the Day view. Now imagine you're planning meals for the next 7 days. I guarantee you will constantly be zooming in, zooming out, wondering if you've added the "late-night snack" to this day or that day, accidentally adding meal items to the wrong meal, leaving out meals that you assumed were down in the hidden area, etc. So that's planning mess #1. Planning mess #2 comes in when you're trying to move meals or meal items from one day to another. This happens more than you might imagine -- think what happens to your meal plan when someone invites you out for dinner... or when you miss most of the day's meals due to some unexpected circumstance. You want to move those meals to another day right? Or how about the scenario where you're not super hungry, and instead of making the two or three dishes you had planned for a meal, you make only one. You want to move those meal items to different days, right? Well this program is either full of bugs or is just a bad design when it comes to these operations. Sometimes you'd like to take your lunch items and move them to dinner for a different day. There's no simple way to do it (*sometimes you can drag and drop it, but not always*, and if the item is hidden from view, good luck!). Sometimes you try copying-and-pasting an entire meal to a different day and it just won't let you. You can't get it to go to the place where you want it. So then you have to go through the hassle of adding the meals to the day as new items. The meal planning features are so bad that I keep putting it off knowing it's going to take several hours to layout a simple meal plan for the next week. But the frustration doesn't stop here. There's all sorts of smaller bugs and poor design elements. The software appears to be constructed by a one-man show (as far as I can tell). This doesn't necessarily mean it will be good or bad. But as a software developer myself I know there are tendencies -- when pushed on time -- to implement new features in the simplest way possible instead of designing them properly. Some examples of poor design and other limitations: 1) When you are adding a new recipe, there's an option to add source information so you know which of your cookbooks it came from. A proper design would have a way for you to create a "Source". Then, when you are entering a recipe from the same book, you would just select the book from a list of Sources. Instead, you have the option to use the "Last source" you specified or enter new information. This means each time you enter a recipe from cookbook A, if the last recipe you added wasn't also from cookbook A, you'll have to go get the cookbook and enter the information AGAIN... and again... and again. 2) Grocery Lists: You can print them, but you can't copy-and-paste them into Word, etc. You can't search them for a given ingredient (needed when you want to know if that last 1/2 a beet is needed for one recipe or two). And the default formatting is terrible. 3) I have 18 other stumbling blocks written down that I plan to send to the software company as design improvements, but this review is already too long.
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