LIVING COOKBOOK 2011

Several years ago,  I started getting over run with recipes.  I had them in binders,  taped to sheets of paper, pinned to the walls.  I had a mess.  So my wife said there has to be a program out there that can manage all these recipes.  And I still had lots of space on my hard drive...  I tried: Works, Word, Excel, Word perfect,  And none of them really worked.  So I got on the internet and started looking around.  I found a great one from Europe,  But  it was limited on somethings.  I looked at Big Oven and others in that range.  But they didn't feel right to me.  Then I ran across Living Cookbook 2005.  It had a free trail thing,  And I'm a sucker for free down loads.  So I tried it, entered a few recipes.  And said to myself,  I found it.  So I ordered the program.  It was something like 25 or 30 dollars.  And I was extremely happy with it.  Then 2008 came out,  a lot more features, more powerful,  and I could import from 2005 right into 2008.  And I've been using that ever sense.  Until the 2011 came out just a few weeks ago.  So I down loaded the trial version of that.  Loaded it, and fell in love.  I can to do things with this one that I couldn't or didn't know how to do on the other programs.


The biggest thing I like about this is the Capture feature.  You do a paste and copy lets say into the ingredient part and it sends the info over to the ingredient page and poof, it's in there.  Go on over and check it out yourself,  Amazon has a great write up about it, and Radium tells you a whole lot more.  


Here is just a little bit of the write up that Amazon has about the program:


Product Features

• 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 FDXZ, 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.  
  
  
   I'm not getting paid for this write-up or anything like that.  This is a program that I believe in. And like I said before get those recipes into a program that you can use and that will grow with you.   The Customer Service is fantastic.  So get those recipes organized before you get totally buried in them.  Lose them, or whatever.  But get them entered into something.  Right now I have over 1300 recipes to work from,  and I've got all most all of them entered.  
  
  
  Platform: Windows 7 / Me / 98 / 2000 / XP / Vista  

  Go to either link below and look for yourself...

  
  

  http://www.livingcookbook.com/
  
  
  http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=livingcookbook+2011&x=0&y=0