| Living Cookbook 2008 | 
| From: Radium Technologies
Category: Software
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Seller: Radium Technologies Inc.
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Sales Rank: 114
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows 7
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 0.2 x 5.6 x 4.9
UPC: 898573002008
EAN: 0898573002008
ASIN: B001HUJUT4
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| Features:
| • | Plan meals using the meal planning calendar and calculate nutrition for any recipe, menu or meal | | • | Manage your kitchen's inventory and create grocery lists organized by grocery aisle | | • | Import major recipe file formats or copy recipes online; print on any size paper, including index cards | | • | Share your recipes as files or e-mails or publish and print cookbooks | | • | Help file with over 450 help topics and online support forum with over 28,000 members |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Living Cookbook 2008 is the seventh major release of the award-winning recipe management software from Radium Technologies. Designed to work seamlessly with every version of Windows from Windows 98 to Windows 7, the new version includes over 100 major enhancements. 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 Living Cookbook 2008 is the seventh major release of the award-winning recipe management software from Radium Technologies. Designed to work seamlessly with every version of Windows from Windows 98 to Windows 7, the new version includes over 100 major enhancements. 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. | 
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). | | 
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. | | 
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. | | 
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Warning: Living Cookbook is Addicting! :-) November 22, 2008
The 'M' Family
119 out of 121 found this review helpful
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!
Has every feature on my wish list (and more!) November 30, 2008
Litza Stark (New York, NY)
58 out of 59 found this review helpful
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.
Living Cookbook a 10 Star Program October 27, 2008
Dana Demerchant (Springfield , VT USA)
55 out of 59 found this review helpful
I have been using this software for a number of years , along with other recipe software. I have found myself abandoning all other software for Living Cookbook 2008 ( LC08 ) .
In these times of rising food prices , I have found that by using this software I have saved so much money on my food bill , just from meal planning.
We print out our own hard copy family cookbook and we intend to use the services of Tastebook.com which can take an LC08 file and make it into a cookbook no different than what you would buy in the store.
There are websites that can do what LC08 does but you take the risk of being banned , the site going down , your net connection going down and a host of other issues. With LC08 you can make backups and export them to a CD or a removable flash drive , you keep the control of your own recipes , menus , meal plans , shopping lists etc.
Service , Lee ( the programmer ) doesn't brush you off. He works so hard to fix issues , answer questions and improve the program . Unlike other programs that are more interested in becoming a social network.
I honestly can not hit on every topic that makes LC08 a great program , download a free trial for yourself from the Livingcookbook website and be sure to check out the capture and scan features. Capture is the ability to copy and past a recipe into the program via a few clicks. The scan feature allows you to save old paper copies of family recipes , into an image , which you can view from within the program.
I hope you enjoy LC08 as much as I do.
Easy to use, packed with features January 8, 2009
bkl
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
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.
The Only Software I Would Actually Pay For December 31, 2008
M. Chiou (Alexandria, VA United States)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
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.
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