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Living Cookbook 2008 | 
| From: Radium Technologies
List Price: $54.95
Buy New: $34.95
as of 11/21/2009 17:18 CST details
You Save: $20.00 (36%)
Seller: Radium Technologies Inc.
Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 57
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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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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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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Product Description
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.
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 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:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 44
 nice way to organize and print recipes November 17, 2009
Wendy Dennis (Boston MA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am enjoying this product. I eventually want to use it to create my own cookbooks for printing and, since you can export as text or to MS Word - and thus any text editing and formatting program - this program will do the trick.
For some reason, I have a hard time remembering the process for capturing recipes. I have to poke around before I remember/figure it out each time. Could just be my poor memory, but I'd like to see the recipe capture function as a main menu item rather than buried in "Other Actions."
But - I really like the program - I've also used BigOven and one other program (that obviously didn't impress me enough for me to even remember the name!) and I prefer the Living Cookbook.
 An excellent program! Helps me tie my inventory to my recipes! November 10, 2009
christinebbd (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I started using this software in early 2006. I don't know how I lived without it! The Living Cookbook is made to be your own personal cookbook. There are a few recipes that come with the software, but they are just a jumping off point. Add your own recipes to the software to make it YOUR OWN. The name "Living" Cookbook says it all.
Add your own recipes, inventory from your frig, freezer, pantry and then make menus and it's a faaaabulous tool to help you save money.
I need to make my own flours and baking mixes (gluten free). I have a recipe for a mix that replaces wheat flour in an ingredient. Instead of re-writing all my recipes, this program lets me link 'flour' to my gluten free flour mix recipe! I know this doesn't make sense if you've never seen the software, but if you need to link an ingredient you can't have to one you can, without retyping ALL your recipes to change that one ingredient...the program does it with an easy click of a button.
Another COOL feature: Say you have a can of tomato soup that expires in a month and you want to use it up. Go to Ingredients > Soups > Tomato soup and viola! Right there you have ALL the recipes using tomato soup.
THE BEST FEATURE! You can copy/paste ANY recipe from the internet into Living Cookbook using the feature called Capture. It takes me about a minute to add a recipe I've copy/pasted from a website. I don't have to re-write an ingredient (as I said earlier), I choose how to link each ingredient and within a minute I'm done.
AND you can copy/paste photos from any webpage along with the recipe.
I use the Menu tool to decide what I'm going to cook for the week. As I use up a menu for the day, and delete it, it deletes the exact amount from my inventory. For example, if a recipe calls for 3 TBS cornstarch, my inventory on cornstarch is reduced by 3 TBS.
Each week, when I use the grocery list feature, items I'm low on are automatically added to the grocery list for me! And I tell the program how low I want something to get before it gets added to the list.
This software is nothing like other recipe softwares out there. Living Cookbook is much more than just a catalog for your recipes.
I found Living Cookbook about the same time I found out both my kids had asperger's syndrome (high functioning autism). This software changed my children's lives and my own. A gluten free diet removes the symptoms of autism from a child's life. Of course, you can certainly live a relatively normal life with asperger's. You don't HAVE to use a GF diet. But to remove autistic tendencies so easily, it's sooo worth the effort to go gluten free.
This software helped me change my families lives.
Where Have You Been All My Life?? October 25, 2009
NuJoi (Chicago, IL United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have been using this software for about a week and I am absolutely amazed by its functionality. I was looking for something that would help me accurately determine cost per serving, but I've gotten so much more.
With this software you can:
- Create e-versions of recipes (yours and others')
- Make custom cookbooks.
- Get a nutitional analysis of each recipe
- Monitor daily intake for calories, sugar, fat, cholesterol, carbs, etc. (including fast food)
- See cost per recipe and cost per serving
- Understand how shopping at different stores affects your grocery budget
- Plan menus for special occassions and every day
- Determine how quickly you can get a meal on the table
- Look at what you've eaten and when
- Track your grocery items as you use them and create acurate shopping lists
- Last but not least, the software contains a couple of its own cookbooks to expand your recipe collection
These are just the features I've discovered in a week! I'm sure there are a lot more. As another reviewer stated, the software is addictive. I'm looking for real accuracy with my costs, so I have gone through my entire kitchen and updated the software with accurate ingredient prices. Now, every time I go grocery shopping, I enter the prices from the receipt to keep things up to date.
The software can be a bit overwhelming at times (essentially you are working with an ingredient and recipe database), but the help and tutorials are easy to understand. To make my life easier, I've deleted ingredients I don't see myself ever using, like the commercial flours and fats.
This is one of the cases where buying more than what you need is a good idea. Even if you don't think you're interested in all of the features listed above, they may come in handy in the future. It's nice to know that you have a solution that will be ready as your needs expand.
Great Software Program October 21, 2009
Jean (Pacific Northwest USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of my daughters asked me to compile all of the family recipes. I started doing it in Word and found it to be very cumbersome. I researched many cooking programs and found Living Cookbook. So far it does everything I require in a cooking program. I love the capture technique, rating, labeling and search tool.
Since there is diabetes in the family I especially love the way the program analyazes the nutrition and displays the information for each recipe.
The only drawback I see to the program is that when we were going on a trip, I loaded the program onto my laptop. Since the program is registered on my desktop, I could only load it on my laptop for a 30 day trial period. I may contact the software company to see about a two computer site license.
Of all of the programs I researched, Living Cookbook had the most positive reviews and after using this program, I am so glad that I followed the other reviewers advice. It is a fantastic program!
Great For Cut and Paste October 14, 2009
Discriminating Shopper (Seattle, WA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was looking for some up to date recipe software since my old program now resides on an old 1998 model PC. The old version was kind of clunky, but good for organizing - but all manual data entry. Living Cookbook takes care of this problem. Look no further. This software is amazing, not intuitive, but once you learn the tricks (watch the online videos) you will have no problems importing older software with simple cut and paste ease, plus you can cut and paste online recipes from the internet. Living Cookbook is ALMOST perfect in this - but for those few instances when it can't decipher what you mean, it's easy to go back and make manual corrections. I've had to do this for only 4 of the dozens of recipes I have downloaded or cut and paste. Once you have mastered the recipe creation, give your hand a try at the shopping lists - it really makes a difference - and you can track your prices if you choose. Definitely a five star rating!
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