Now You're Cooking! 5.88

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Date updated

February 1, 2011

Developer

Loginetics Inc | (more products)

All time downloads

617

License / Price

Free Trial / $25.00

Platform

Windows

Description of Now You're Cooking! 5.88

Great recipe and nutrition tool. Manage all your kitchen activities

Now You're Cooking! will help you cut hours off organizing recipes, nutrition analysis, shopping lists, meal plans or grocery cost management. Recipe search, dupe checking, find-replace, meal planning, import/export, manage categories across multiple cookbooks.User-defined categories and auto-categorizing of recipes. Toggle US/SI units and fractions/decimal. Multi-file, mixed-format imports of Meal-Master(tm), Mastercook(tm), or generic text recipes or enter your own. Screen import and Quick Web Recipes features for easiest importing. Publish recipes to a custom web site or to MS Word. Customizable recipe rating and analysis system. Nutrition analysis/diet calculations for recipes and menus using 7538 item USDA SR22 database.

Fitness calculator and tracking. Shopping lists from meal plans. Multiple menus/shopping lists.Shopping list by aisle; shopping list cost across stores. Quickfill data entry, multi-language spell-checker, recipe images capability. Web connectivity for recipe downloads, support. Email recipes and cookbooks.

Key features

Convenient, Friendly Interface:
• quick-fill data entry
• "Did you know?" tips
• auto-updated droplists
• user-defined external editor and browser
• various toolbars for speed use
• safe and easy upgrade to new NYC versions
• Windows Help (contents, search)
• zip/unzip cookbooks for backup or exchange
• easy cut, copy-paste options
• web links for support and recipe downloads
• cooking glossary with user tips
• easy Backup of entire user folder (with compression)
• store user folder anywhere
• selective Restore of backed up files to user folder
• change screen font size
• numerous user preference settings

Recipe Management:
• organized, customizable recipe interface
• recipe fullview and editview choices
• up to 500 user-defined categories per cookbook
• duplicate recipe checking across cookbooks
• unlimited number of cookbooks
• resize recipes by a multiplier or by #servings
• automatic or manual recipe categorization
• automatic best units for resized ingredients
• tag and untag recipes for later operations
• defrag or reindex cookbooks and image archives
• toggle US-SI, fractions-decimal conversions
• cookbook annotation
• edit, delete, email, print, export recipes from search results
• customizable find-replace text across cookbooks
• attach images to recipes in cookbooks
• proper case recipe names across cookbooks
• customizable edit window layout
• customizable multi-rater, multi-criteria recipe rating
• spell checker (dictionaries in 14 languages)
• graphical analysis of recipe ratings

Finding Recipes:
• multi-criteria recipe search across cookbooks
• edit, delete, email, print, or export from search results
• find recipes that use ingredients on hand
• manual or automatic recipe categorization
• search within a limited range (category, recipes with images, etc)
• user-defined auto-categorization keywords
• click 2 (or more) categories to find recipes assigned to both
• user-defined default categories for new cookbooks

Importing and Exporting Recipes:
• email recipes and cookbooks
• 158,000+ free, importable recipes on website
• robust import of MM, MC, generic formats
• web links to 0.5 million free, importable recipes
• multi-file imports; each file can have mixed formats
• easily create a recipe website with images
• Quick Web Recipes for easy download/import
• customize Export-to-Web web pages
• easy Screen Import for recipes in any format
• export recipes in various formats to your text editor
• save un-imported recipes to a file
• export search results to other cookbooks
• publish NYC cookbooks to MS Word
• move selected recipes to other cookbooks

Meal Planning:
• meal plan using multiple cookbooks
• handles breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
• multi-criteria search from meal plan
• add recipes or individual items to meal plan
• quick view recipes from meal plan
• scale meal plan entries by a multiplier
• maintain multiple menus
• automatic shopping list from menus
• pop-up calendar for date selections
• tag and untag recipes from the menu planner
• unlimited meal plan period
• easily swap menu days

Automatic Shopping List:
• sums like items from meal plan recipes
• add miscellaneous items or delete items on hand
• sums like items with different units (converts)
• append to or replace previous list
• user-definable unit conversions
• maintain multiple shopping lists simultaneously
• auto-expansion of unit conversion combinations
• shopping list sorted by store aisle
• multiple shopping lists
• merge shopping lists

Cost Management:
• shopping list cost comparison for up to 20 stores
• complete coupon manager
• user-defined prices/aisles for up to 20 stores
• coupons sorted by item, brand, or expiration date
• auto-add new ingredients to prices and aisles list
• flag coupon list items with match in shopping list
• flags low price and store for shopping list items
• import/export price lists to/from text files

Nutrition Analysis:
• uses USDA nutrition database SR19
• over 7290 food items in database
• raw, cooked, prepared, or commercial foods
• allows user-defined nutrition data
• nutrition analysis (recipes, meals, menus)
• includes proximates, vitamins, minerals
• over 40 nutrition elements analysed, including trans fats
• Calories as carbohydrates:protein:fat
• analyze any recipe from any source
• customizable DietPoints calculation
• Daily Values calculated using your calories/day
• add a recipe's nutrition analysis as a nutrition item
• searchable nutrition database - improved
• auto-link recipe ingredients using ingredient droplist
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• Fitness Tracking:
• calculate body fat %, BMI, waist ratios, and more
• track body measurements for multiple users over time
• calculate calories/day to gain, lose, maintain weight
• calculate basal metabolic rate
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• Printed Outputs:
• With your choice of fonts, font sizes, orientation, margins, and printer, you can print:
• any or all recipes in various formats
• shopping list
• recipe names by category
• shopping list by store aisle
• meal plan
• shopping list cost comparison at up to 20 stores
• recipes in meal plan
• list of unit conversions
• recipe categories
• list of coupons
• recipe category assignments
• list of prices and aisles
• cookbook recipes by category
• droplists
• nutrition analyses
• recipes on index card sheets (various sizes)
• print-to-text file option
• mini-print preview for recipes

Editor's review for Now You're Cooking!

Every mother likes to cook delicious nutritional dishes which her children would love to eat. It is a herculean task to put forth food on the table which the children – and seldom even adults – love to eat without any cajoling or even threatening. Sometimes, you do come across recipes which your family loves but then you deposit them so safely that retrieval at a future date is very cumbersome and time consuming. Sometimes, the desired recipe is totally not recoverable leading to disappointment and thus making use of a lesser liked recipe.

Now You’re Cooking! (NYC) is a user friendly and very resourceful software program which will help you to save all of your recipes and organize them in a systematic manner for easy retrieval immediately on requirement. With the help from Now You’re Cooking!, you can now easily manage the diet and health of your family, prepare well planned meals, and also shop economically and within your budget by creating and maintain your daily or monthly lists. NYC can be run on various platforms of Windows including Vista and NT. It facilitates for you to save your own recipes as well as to download numerous recipes from NYC itself or from the nearly half a million links provided by them. And the icing on the cake is the ability of NYC which provides dictionary in fourteen different languages for you to store your recipes and also run a check for spelling.

Now You’re Cooking! is so very special because it gives due cognizance to the views of its users and implements the viable suggestions thus enhancing its user friendliness. The gamut of people using NYC is very large comprising of home-makers, fast food stalls, restaurants, individual caterers, and consultants for nutritional and diet foods, religious institutions. You have users from day care centers, and people managing canteens for schools and sororities who are ardent users of NYC. The user group is very versatile and comes from nearly every walk of life, for everyone likes a delicious and nutritional meal to eat as well as to serve their near and dear ones.

NYC offers you a sixty-day trial period and after being positively convinced of its immense usefulness, you can purchase it and get the facility of its entire comprehensive data management capabilities. Its user friendliness combined with its professional coding has won it numerous awards and has been recognized by various shows depicting the art of cooking.

Now You’re Cooking! is a must-have for every cook who wants to be recognized for his or her culinary skills!