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Living Cookbook 2008
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List Price: $54.95
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Manufacturer: Radium Technologies, Inc.
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Binding: CD-ROM
EAN: 0898573002008
Feature: Manage your recipe collection: Living Cookbook makes it easy to enter new recipes, copy them from the Internet, or even scan them from cookbooks and magazines. Want to share your recipes with others? You can export or e-mail your recipes in a variety of formats, including FDX, HTML, Meal-Master, MasterCook and more.
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Radium Technologies, Inc.
Manufacturer: Radium Technologies, Inc.
Platform: Windows Me
Publisher: Radium Technologies, Inc.
Studio: Radium Technologies, Inc.
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Features
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Manage your recipe collection: Living Cookbook makes it easy to enter new recipes, copy them from the Internet, or even scan them from cookbooks and magazines. Want to share your recipes with others? You can export or e-mail your recipes in a variety of formats, including FDX, HTML, Meal-Master, MasterCook and more.
Plan meals: Just drag and drop recipes, ingredients and menus onto your meal plan. Plan a single meal, a day, a week, a month or more. Ready to shop for your meals? Just add your meal plan (or any part of it) to a grocery list.
Calculate nutrition for any recipe, menu or meal: Living Cookbook's nutrition display is completely customizable. Want to see nutrition facts just like you are used to seeing them on product packaging? We can do that. Want to see more than 150 different nutrients, including Weight Watchers Points, trans fat, net carbs, vitamins, minerals, lycopene, beta carotene, caffeine and more? We can do that, too.
Create grocery lists: Living Cookbook makes it easy to create a shopping list from scratch or from recipes, ingredients, menus and meal plans. The software will combine like items, organize them by your store's grocery aisles, and calculate the cost of each item and the cost of the entire grocery list.
Publish and print cookbooks: Want to create your own cookbook as a Christmas gift, for retail sale, or for a church or school fundraiser? Living Cookbook can help you do it. You can print a cookbook with a cover page, table of contents, recipes and index directly from the software with just three clicks. Or you can export your cookbook to Microsoft Word and customize it to your heart's content.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Living Cookbook 2008 is the latest version of the award-winning recipe software from Radium Technologies. Use Living Cookbook to organize recipes, plan meals, create menus, calculate nutrition information, create shopping lists, publish cookbooks, export, e-mail and much more. The software is extraordinarily flexible and easy to use and Living Cookbook's comprehensive help file, tutorials, demo videos and customer support will ensure that you can find and learn to use the features you need. The software comes with more than 1,000 recipes, and thousands more are available online. Find out why Smart Computing Magazine, Choice Magazine and Which? Magazine all chose Living Cookbook as the best cooking and recipe management software.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Easy to use, packed with features
Comment: Living Cookbook 2008
I bought Living Cookbook 2005 2 years ago after extensive research into all the cooking applications available. The reviews for Living Cookbook were great then and 2008 is even better. I upgraded to 2008 this last Xmas and am even more impressed with this version. I am a professional Web and User Interface designer, so I'm more critical than most users would be. Let me tell you why this application is so good:
ENTER RECIPES QUICKLY
New recipes are very easy to enter. The feature I like best is Recipe Capture. Copy any recipe from the internet, or your own text file, and then paste it into a field under the Capture Tab. To copy the ingredients to the Ingredients Tab, highlight that text and press the Ingredients button. Voila! All the ingredients are copied to the Quantity, Unit, & Ingredient columns. What has just been copied is highlighted in a color so you know it's completed. Copying the procedures and all the other recipe information is equally easy. Highlight the text and click on the button name that matches the information.
Entering recipes is flexible. Scan in your recipe collection or favorites from cookbooks. (You do need to supply the scanner.) Import them from other software that use Food Data Exchange, MasterCook, Meal Master, or text file formats. Copy recipes using the Capture tab. Alternatively, manually add recipes using the Autofill feature. A few characters and the software fills in the rest. It will even fill in the Quantity and Unit from the Ingredients field if you enable Pen Scanning. (This is one my only quibbles in terms of UI: It's not a logical location to enable the feature even though it was created to make pen scanning easier.)
PLAN MEALS EASILY
Whether you're planning for a party or the family's weekly dinners, select the recipe you want and add it to a Menu file. Scale the recipes to the number of guests. Create a Shopping List with all the menu ingredients totaled and organized by store and by category. It even tells you the cost of each item. (I haven't verified if the cost matches our expensive region, but it should give you an idea of how much the weekly meals will cost.) You can even keep an inventory of what you have on hand. Planning takes no time at all with no extra trips to the grocery store.
FIND RECIPES FAST
Key word tags (Recipe Type): Add a tag from the existing list or add your own tag to recipes you enter. Some examples of my personal key words are Holiday, Family, Low Fat, each season (spring, summer, fall, and winter to take advantage of seasonal ingredients).
Search makes finding recipe categories very quick. Got an aunt who is vegetarian, and allergic to nuts, wheat, and dairy products? Use the Advanced Search and pick up to 4 key words (Recipe Types), include or exclude whatever ingredients, and you have a list of possible recipes. No more browsing many cookbooks, searching each chapter for recipes that fit multiple needs. This feature is useful for grocery store sale items and or the apples you need to use, so you can save money too.
Click on a cookbook folder and recipes are listed showing the Name, Rate (5 stars, 2 stars) Difficulty, Type (key words). That makes scanning to find the right recipe is easy.
MAKE IT YOUR OWN
Create your own cookbooks. I made a "Family Favorites" cookbook, created CDs and gave them to my family for Christmas along with a copy of the software. We can email recipes to each other so sharing is a breeze. I also have a cookbook called "Try Me" for all those recipes I've collected over the years that I've wanted to test. No more newspaper articles to laboriously leaf through. Another cookbook I created is "Company's Coming" for the times I entertain and want recipes that are easy, but elegant.
You can organize recipes or menus however it suits you. I created folders for Appetizers, Beverages, Breads, Desserts, Eggs & Cheese, Entrees, First Courses, Sauces & Marinades. I made subfolders for some categories - like Entrees are split into Beef, Poultry, etc.
IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH
Each recipe automatically calculates nutritional values so you know what's in it. This is invaluable for diabetics, hypertension, or just to lose weight.
RESPONSIVE SUPPORT
If you can't find the answer in the Help files or Tutorials, LC has a Discussion Forum covering most topics. I added 2 questions to an existing thread and got answers back within 24 hours.
There a more great features, but this review is too long already. If you aren't persuaded by now how great the software is, reading more probably won't change your mind.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Living Cookbook
Comment: This product is really pretty good but the customer service is horrible. First of all the code that you need to install the software is include (supposedly) on your invoice but of course no one tells you that so when you go to install the software if you happened to throw that away your screwed. Also if you want to get in touch with customer service (b/c you threw away your invoice) you have to sign up to get an account and then you have to place questions on a board. My mom bought this product and she's not computer savvy enough to know anything about posting on boards. This is an extremely poor way to do customer service so if your planning on buying this product keep in mind that the software itself seems to be pretty good but there is little in the way of customer service should you need it.
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Summary: I Love This Program!
Comment: I've used other cookbook software and this one is by far the easiest and most diverse one I have found. You can import recipes from just about anywhere including ones from your favorite websites within seconds! I've had it for quite sometime and each time I use the program I find some other interesting thing that it is capable of doing.
The most impressive thing though is the quality of the support from the programmer, Lee. He is so quick and thorough in answering questions. Thanks Lee!
I highly recommend this program to anyone who is a fan of cooking.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Only Software I Would Actually Pay For
Comment: I've made 2 cookbooks now, and each time I show them, no one can believe that they are my own recipes, and not just printed off the web customizable comment section on the recipe is the only way that someone can tell I didn't just steal the recipe! It's amazing what using this software and printing on good quality paper does - it looks absolutely professional quality. The software is easy to use, easy to install, and you can set it to back up your collection every time you exit the application. I take a recipe I find online or see on TV, I make it, and then record my changes and make it my own. I plan on using this software to create the cookbook I plan on passing onto my kids. I have to say though, not only is this an excellent application created by a small, proud company, the incredible product support (directly from the developer) on their forums and the supportive community dedicated to Living Cookbook is what sets this application apart from all others. It literally is the only software I would pay for.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Love Living Cookbook!
Comment: After doing lots of searching for a recipe organizer I found Living Cookbook 2008. I ordered one for myself, my mom and a friend. I'm very happy with the product and the company's customer support. I had misplaced the license numbers, I got a reply to my forum question within 15 minutes of my post. I will recommend this product to anyone looking for a recipe organizer.
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