Living Cookbook

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Publisher: Radium Technologies, Inc.
Price: $26.95
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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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Useful and simple...but visually unappealing

By izzymail02 on Mon, 2008-09-15 20:55
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Pros: Simple, organized, like the use whats in your pantry tool
Cons: no pictures, not very colorful, simple lettering
Living Cookbook has lots of easy and simple recipes, and like that it gives nutritional information. However, the outline of the program is kind of square, more pictures and bigger lettering would...
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Living cook book is no Top Chef

By whitemarlin00 on Tue, 2008-07-08 23:38
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Pros: Easy to follow, keeps count of everything, Good simple recipes
Cons: Does not have exotic recipes. Don't get it if you are looking to really impress friends with your far out cooking skills.
So my girlfriend and I had been watching a lot of Top Chef and decided that we needed to start learning new ways of cooking while also watching what we ate to make sure it was healthy. We did not...
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Uuuuh… Living CK made by a chief or programmer?!

By seham2008 on Wed, 2008-01-23 00:02
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Pros: advanced software for managing meals, inventory, groceries..
Cons: poor design, do not target housewives, no flexibilty
Wow..Living Cookbook is a real management software for cooking and recipes honestly, I found it really advanced it has the spirit of the similar inventory management software managing meals,...
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Quicker than a cookbook, but better?

By puffin1981 on Sun, 2007-09-23 01:53
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Pros: Easy to find recipes, logical layout
Cons: Could be more visual, more photos and recipes
Well, I enjoy cooking, and I love reading cookbooks. I love lloking at the pictures and reading the personal anecdotes the writer adds to the recipes. These are the books that make me want to go to...
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Doesn't look appealing, but...

By leochan369 on Sat, 2007-09-15 12:36
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Pros: Information-rich, Functional
Cons: Graphically not appealing, Not user friendly
When I first started using this software, my first impression was 'am I opening a help file?'. It does look like the MS help files! I won't say it is ugly... Just not appealing visually. Think about...
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Living CookBook...I Like It

By FinalFantasyFan on Fri, 2007-02-02 20:21
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Pros: Categorises recipes in different sections depending on the type of meal, great for keeping all the old family recipes together
Cons: None That I can see
Living CookBook is a software that helps you keep all your recipes together. The cookbook allows you to create a cookbook of say all your family recipes and then helps you to put them into categories...
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Nice Idea

By meera on Tue, 2006-06-20 23:12
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Pros: Everything is given in detail and in-depth.
Cons: I couldn't check out any such particular cons except for it needs a little more creativity.
Idea to provide with every kind of dish is really good. It should have been more creative but still whatever was putforth was not bad. Information regarding the nutrition is excellent, the way its...
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Great Idea But Lacks Creativity

By kks8142 on Fri, 2006-04-07 22:04
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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
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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
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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...
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