My Favorite Meal Planning Software – Living Cookbook 2011
Meal planning software saves you time and money, and helps you eat healthier too!
If you are like me and have recipes scattered everywhere, you’ll like this meal planning software I just found on Amazon.com. It’s called Living Cookbook 2008 and not only will it help you organize your recipes, but it will help you do your meal planning and your grocery shopping. Sounds good to me!
Living Cookbook 2008 is the latest version of the award-winning recipe software from Radium Technologies (update: just released… Living Cookbook 2011!).
Use Living Cookbook to organize recipes, plan meals, create menus, calculate nutrition information, create shopping lists, publish cookbooks, export, e-mail and much more.
Living Cookbook 2008 is an award-winning recipe management and meal planning software, designed to help you:
- organize recipes
– plan meals
– create menus
– calculate nutrition information
– create shopping lists
– publish cookbooks
– and much more!
Manage over 1,000 Recipes with Living Cookbook meal planning software!
If that’s not enough, the Living Cookbook meal planning software comes with more than 1,000 recipes, and thousands more are available online. Living Cookbook lets you type in your recipes, scan them in or copy them from the Internet, making entering your recipes quick and easy.
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.
Meal Planning Software makes dieting and counting calories much easier!
If you’re dieting or just trying to eat healthier, 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.
One of my favorite features – and the one that saves me the most time – is the shopping list creator. 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. Also, if you enter the prices of your most commonly shopped-for ingredients, Living Cookbook meal planning software can calculate the total cost of your grocery list as well as subtotals for each store – very cool!
Meal Planning Software Update:
Living Cookbook has updated their software; grab your copy of Living Cookbook 2011 today!
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Way to Organize Recipe’s
I am one of those people who clip recipes out of magazines and then don’t do anything with them except put them in a pile.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent user interface and many customizable features
I’m a computer geek who appreciates excellent user interface and customizable features, features and more features at a reasonable price.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Software
This software is great. I would highly recommend it. It has met all my expectations. The tutorials make it easy to use.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great product, registration not perfect
I just purchased this product after downloading a trial copy and I think it is fantastic, very easy to learn and offers tons of great features.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Living Cookbook
I find it is easy to add recipies to the cookbook.
The recipie scaler allows me to adjust large recipies down to 1 or 2 servings for myself.
4.0 out of 5 stars
This has a lotta stuff
This program does a lot of stuff, which is pretty impressive. I haven’t figured out how to do it all yet, and will probably have to spend some time on the internet site.
3.0 out of 5 stars
very comprehensive
I find this program difficult to use. I had an old mastercook which was much easier. Living cookbook is easy to import new recipies.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Maybe good… after you can register product
As stated in other reviews – registering the product is ridiculous. A license key is required (no surprise there), but it’s supposed to be on your invoice.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Feature packed!
Wow, there are so many things this program can do! We haven’t used it to it’s full potential yet but look forward to doing so. It’s just what we’ve been looking for.
4.5 out of 5 stars
This program is great for those with any kind of dietary problems, ie: overweight, diabetes, blood pressure, etc. It has a fantastic search engine, with a number of searchs pre-programmed into it and the ability to create your own custom searchs effortlessly. You can search for low-fat, low-carb, low-sodium, or any combination of criteria you need for your particular situation.
The only reasons it didn’t get a 5.0 are due to the fact it does so much that there is a bit of a learning curve. (not difficult mind you, just a lot to remember) It also has one feature that while good in theory, is pretty much useless in the everyday world. It allows you to keep track of the inventory on hand in your kitchen, but you have to have the time to input all of the information. Maybe when I’ve had more time with the program I’ll be able to work that out, but right now it’s on the bottom of the list of things to learn.
For the everyday, ordinary user, you just can’t beat this software. I’ve had no problems with it at all. BUY IT!!! You’ll be glad you did.