Guest guest Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 I'm thinking about getting some recipe software & wondered what were the suggestions here. I've seen quite a few Master Cook recipes over the years & wondered if that's what the majority of people use. If a MasterCook recipe is shared in an email or by email, is there a way to directly import it into your own software without retyping it? thanks, Rhoda We've been moving computers around I have one on my kitchen cabinet now & I thought it would be a great time to add some recipe software. I saw a Betty Crocker one for $19.99 at Best Buy last week too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Hi, Visit this site to read about the program: http://www.ffts.com/ it is Now You're Cooking. it has lots of features, and a nutrition database that analyzes ingredients. My fav feature is the copy and paste recipe insertion---no typing! I think you'll like what you see. They have a huge recipe source with tons of veg recipes, and there's a as well. I am just a happy customer. Oh, one other thing, the software developer monitors the , and is there to help, and answer questions, and he listens to users, and takes suggestions about improving/changing the software. HTH Danielle in Denver On 6/17/2008 3:28:53 PM, Angel Bytes (angel.bytes) wrote: > I'm thinking about getting some recipe software & wondered what were the > suggestions here. I've > seen quite a few Master Cook recipes over the years & > wondered if > tha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2008 Report Share Posted June 18, 2008 Thanks for the suggestion! I downloaded it & will try it out. Rhoda On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Danielle <danileo47 wrote: > Hi, > Visit this site to read about the program: > http://www.ffts.com/ > it is Now You're Cooking. > it has lots of features, and a nutrition database that analyzes > ingredients. My fav feature is the copy and paste recipe insertion---no > typing! I think you'll like what you see. They have a huge recipe > source with tons of veg recipes, and there's a as well. I > am just a happy customer. Oh, one other thing, the software developer > monitors the , and is there to help, and answer questions, > and he listens to users, and takes suggestions about improving/changing > the software. > HTH > Danielle in Denver > > > On 6/17/2008 3:28:53 PM, Angel Bytes (angel.bytes<angel.bytes%40gmail.com>) > wrote: > > I'm thinking about getting some recipe software & wondered what were the > > suggestions here. I've > > seen quite a few Master Cook recipes over the years & > > wondered if > > tha > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2008 Report Share Posted June 21, 2008 Danielle, Did you buy the manual too? I was looking at a site that reviewed recipe software & it mentioned a steep learning curve for this one. I haven't gotten to play with it but the copy & paste thing sounds great! Does anyone else use this software for organization? thanks, Rhoda On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Danielle <danileo47 wrote: > Hi, > Visit this site to read about the program: > http://www.ffts.com/ > it is Now You're Cooking. > it has lots of features, and a nutrition database that analyzes > ingredients. My fav feature is the copy and paste recipe insertion---no > typing! I think you'll like what you see. They have a huge recipe > source with tons of veg recipes, and there's a as well. I > am just a happy customer. Oh, one other thing, the software developer > monitors the , and is there to help, and answer questions, > and he listens to users, and takes suggestions about improving/changing > the software. > HTH > Danielle in Denver > > > On 6/17/2008 3:28:53 PM, Angel Bytes (angel.bytes<angel.bytes%40gmail.com>) > wrote: > > I'm thinking about getting some recipe software & wondered what were the > > suggestions here. I've > > seen quite a few Master Cook recipes over the years & > > wondered if > > tha > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2008 Report Share Posted June 21, 2008 Rhoda, No, I didn't get the manual. For me, the built in help file was enough. Do play with the program to get a feel for it. You'll be able to tell if it is for you. There is lots of support out there in the user group, (NYC-MM) (Now You're Cooking-Meal Master) too, as there are veteran users in it who are always willing to help with info, etc. Don't forget, the software developer is in it too. And I can help you, too, of course. Have fun! Danielle in Denver On 6/21/2008 8:13:05 AM, Angel Bytes (angel.bytes) wrote: > Danielle, > Did you buy the manual too? I was looking at a site that reviewed recipe > software & it mentioned a steep learning curve for this one. I > haven't > gotten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 21, 2008 Report Share Posted June 21, 2008 Hi Carolyn Hope you are feeling better Donna Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile " Carolyn " <veggiekat Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:09:08 To: RE: recipe software Hi Rhoda, sorry I am late responding to this thread but I have been in hospital just under a week and am very behind with my mail. I am a huge user of recipe software, so had to respond. I have tried NYC for a while but found it quite limiting, I now use Mastercook and Living Cookbook, which I favour above all others I have tried, but I use MC on a daily basis because it seems to have cornered the market and there are so many MC recipes shared out there. Any good recipe software will have the copy and paste function, and MC and LC both have the option to pull recipes from the web very easily. With MC you can also save any recipes you receive via email in MC format and just import them into MC directly. Basically, if you are a serious recipe collector (like me!) and want something beyond the basic, it is probably worth paying the $20 or so for the extra functionality - but if you are just someone who likes to collect the odd recipe here and there NYC or other free software will probably suffice for your needs. Good luck in finding what you are looking for. Carolyn _____ @ <%40> [@ <%40> ] On Behalf Of Angel Bytes 21 June 2008 15:13 @ <%40> Re: recipe software Danielle, Did you buy the manual too? I was looking at a site that reviewed recipe software & it mentioned a steep learning curve for this one. I haven't gotten to play with it but the copy & paste thing sounds great! Does anyone else use this software for organization? thanks, Rhoda On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Danielle <danileo47 (AT) comcast (DOT) <danileo47%40comcast.net> net> wrote: > Hi, > Visit this site to read about the program: > http://www.ffts. <http://www.ffts.> <http://www.ffts. <http://www.ffts.com/> com/> com/ > it is Now You're Cooking. > it has lots of features, and a nutrition database that analyzes > ingredients. My fav feature is the copy and paste recipe insertion---no > typing! I think you'll like what you see. They have a huge recipe > source with tons of veg recipes, and there's a as well. I > am just a happy customer. Oh, one other thing, the software developer > monitors the , and is there to help, and answer questions, > and he listens to users, and takes suggestions about improving/changing > the software. > HTH > Danielle in Denver > > > On 6/17/2008 3:28:53 PM, Angel Bytes (angel.bytes@ <angel.bytes%40gmail.com> gmail.com<angel.bytes%40gmail.com>) > wrote: > > I'm thinking about getting some recipe software & wondered what were the > > suggestions here. I've > > seen quite a few Master Cook recipes over the years & > > wondered if > > tha > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 Hi Rhoda, sorry I am late responding to this thread but I have been in hospital just under a week and am very behind with my mail. I am a huge user of recipe software, so had to respond. I have tried NYC for a while but found it quite limiting, I now use Mastercook and Living Cookbook, which I favour above all others I have tried, but I use MC on a daily basis because it seems to have cornered the market and there are so many MC recipes shared out there. Any good recipe software will have the copy and paste function, and MC and LC both have the option to pull recipes from the web very easily. With MC you can also save any recipes you receive via email in MC format and just import them into MC directly. Basically, if you are a serious recipe collector (like me!) and want something beyond the basic, it is probably worth paying the $20 or so for the extra functionality - but if you are just someone who likes to collect the odd recipe here and there NYC or other free software will probably suffice for your needs. Good luck in finding what you are looking for. Carolyn _____ On Behalf Of Angel Bytes 21 June 2008 15:13 Re: recipe software Danielle, Did you buy the manual too? I was looking at a site that reviewed recipe software & it mentioned a steep learning curve for this one. I haven't gotten to play with it but the copy & paste thing sounds great! Does anyone else use this software for organization? thanks, Rhoda On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Danielle <danileo47 (AT) comcast (DOT) <danileo47%40comcast.net> net> wrote: > Hi, > Visit this site to read about the program: > http://www.ffts. <http://www.ffts.com/> com/ > it is Now You're Cooking. > it has lots of features, and a nutrition database that analyzes > ingredients. My fav feature is the copy and paste recipe insertion---no > typing! I think you'll like what you see. They have a huge recipe > source with tons of veg recipes, and there's a as well. I > am just a happy customer. Oh, one other thing, the software developer > monitors the , and is there to help, and answer questions, > and he listens to users, and takes suggestions about improving/changing > the software. > HTH > Danielle in Denver > > > On 6/17/2008 3:28:53 PM, Angel Bytes (angel.bytes@ <angel.bytes%40gmail.com> gmail.com<angel.bytes%40gmail.com>) > wrote: > > I'm thinking about getting some recipe software & wondered what were the > > suggestions here. I've > > seen quite a few Master Cook recipes over the years & > > wondered if > > tha > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 Hi Carolyn, Sending you some healthful sprinkle dust your way!! Hope you're feeling much better and all is well with you! -Gypsy </message/67252;_ylc=X3oDMTJzO HNpMWE5BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzE2MDkyMDQwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA0MTcxNgRtc2dJZ AM2NzI1MgRzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMjE0MTQxOTM4> Re: recipe software Posted by: " Carolyn " <veggiekat?Subject=%20Re%3A%20recipe%20software> veggiekat <http://profiles./lynxfirewalker> lynxfirewalker Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:17 am (PDT) Hi Rhoda, sorry I am late responding to this thread but I have been in hospital just under a week and am very behind with my mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 Hope you're feeling better now. I'll keep you in my prayers. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 Thanks for responding & I hope you are recooperating nicely. I decided to post the software question to my digital scrapbooking group yesterday & I got several responses for different programs. Living Cookbok, MasterCook & I think the other one was Cookn'. The Cookn' one had several Betty Crocker recipe books that could be downloaded & it was the priciest at $79.00. Everything else was basically the same. Living Cookbook & Master Cook were mentioned the most though & I downloaded the trial version of LC. I liked it it takes MC format recipes too. The more I look I just want everything!! I tried to download the trial version of MC from download.com & got a corrupt file. I think I'll look for that one later. Since I had a 60 day trial on NYC I'm going to play with it some more but I'm going to buy the LC one before the trial runs out. I heard it takes a few days to get registered & you can get locked out of it. I looked through some old old software yesterday & found one I'd forgotten. It was MC 4 from 1999. I'm sure it's changed a bunch since then,lol! Is it wrong to want it all,lol! thanks, Rhoda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Hi Rhoda, the downloadable version of MC has got problems - I had not heard this of the trial version but definitely the full version, if you were wanting to go with that, you should buy the CD, not download it. I honestly think you can do no better than LC, everything about it is all I could ask for from a cooking software, just the one thing missing, that it is not so widely used as MC. I only bought it in the first place as I sometimes hit problems importing MC recipes directly into LC, so I got it as a " go between " . Now I do run them alongside each other, but use MC daily simply because I belong to so formatting groups for MC, and have my own vegetarian MC formatting group - there is no point having these in LC as there are not enough users - yet. I hope it will change. Anyway have fun, I am sure once you have settled on your choice, you will wonder how you lived without it! Carolyn _____ On Behalf Of Angel Bytes 23 June 2008 01:22 Re: recipe software Thanks for responding & I hope you are recooperating nicely. I decided to post the software question to my digital scrapbooking group yesterday & I got several responses for different programs. Living Cookbok, MasterCook & I think the other one was Cookn'. The Cookn' one had several Betty Crocker recipe books that could be downloaded & it was the priciest at $79.00. Everything else was basically the same. Living Cookbook & Master Cook were mentioned the most though & I downloaded the trial version of LC. I liked it it takes MC format recipes too. The more I look I just want everything!! I tried to download the trial version of MC from download.com & got a corrupt file. I think I'll look for that one later. Since I had a 60 day trial on NYC I'm going to play with it some more but I'm going to buy the LC one before the trial runs out. I heard it takes a few days to get registered & you can get locked out of it. I looked through some old old software yesterday & found one I'd forgotten. It was MC 4 from 1999. I'm sure it's changed a bunch since then,lol! Is it wrong to want it all,lol! thanks, Rhoda Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1513 - Release 6/22/2008 7:52 AM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2009 Report Share Posted May 16, 2009 Hi Mike, there is a lot of debate about the best software. MC is definitely the most widely used, so most formatting lists use it - it is however not being maintained or updated by the company that now own it, and there are I believe a lot of issues with Vista (I use XP so don't have that issue). I personally prefer Living Cookbook, by a mile. However, because I love collecting recipes and am in a number of formatting groups, and they all use MC, I use MC mainly. Basically I use LC and MC side by side. I do a lot of formatting and do it all into MC. You asked about formatting groups - these are places where people get together to format recipes into MC (usually) format and share them - either invividual recipes or whole books. I have run a vegetarian one for over 2 years now, and we have a great group of formatters and fantastic recipes coming through, so if you do decide to buy recipe software and want to build up your veggie recipe collection, keep a note of the link in my signature - I don't normally include this when I post on other lists (unless I forget, which is rare) as I don't feel right " advertising " but am doing this as a one-off as you asked about it. Hope this is ok. Carolyn VegetarianMasterCookFormatting/ Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. _____ On Behalf Of Mike Christie 08 May 2009 21:59 recipe software There was a discussion here last year about recipe software. I went back and reviewed the thread. There were a couple of advocates of Now You're Cooking, and some good things said about Living Cookbook. But it seemed that the most widely used and best liked software was MasterCook. I have a couple of concerns about MasterCook. One is that it does not run properly on Vista. Vista has been out over two years now, so it makes me wonder whether the product is being maintained. The other is that according to the review on toptenreviews.com it comes with 8,000 recipes. Now maybe this shouldn't be an issue, but my intent is to buy a product to store my own recipe collection, not to buy a huge digital cookbook. I'm leaning towards Living Cookbook (which only comes with about 1,000 recipes). But I'm still undecided. Thoughts anyone? (Also, someone wrote about MasterCook formatting groups. Could someone explain that?) thanks, Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Carolyn, Many thanks! I've downloaded LC and really like it. I especially like the recipe capture feature. I think I'm going to buy and register it. You can import MC recipes into LC, can't you? Thanks much for the link. thanks, Mike At 04:02 PM 5/16/2009, Carolyn wrote: Hi Mike, there is a lot of debate about the best software. MC is definitely the most widely used, so most formatting lists use it - it is however not being maintained or updated by the company that now own it, and there are I believe a lot of issues with Vista (I use XP so don't have that issue). I personally prefer Living Cookbook, by a mile. However, because I love collecting recipes and am in a number of formatting groups, and they all use MC, I use MC mainly. Basically I use LC and MC side by side. I do a lot of formatting and do it all into MC. You asked about formatting groups - these are places where people get together to format recipes into MC (usually) format and share them - either invividual recipes or whole books. I have run a vegetarian one for over 2 years now, and we have a great group of formatters and fantastic recipes coming through, so if you do decide to buy recipe software and want to build up your veggie recipe collection, keep a note of the link in my signature - I don't normally include this when I post on other lists (unless I forget, which is rare) as I don't feel right " advertising " but am doing this as a one-off as you asked about it. Hope this is ok. Carolyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 Hi Mike, yes you can import MC recipes into LC. Hope you have fun with your new software, LC really is great, I just wish it was more widely used, recipeholics like me still have to use MC to get all these great formatted recipes, but I still prefer LC as a whole. Anyway, let me know how you get on. Carolyn _____ On Behalf Of Mike Christie 17 May 2009 20:32 RE: recipe software Carolyn, Many thanks! I've downloaded LC and really like it. I especially like the recipe capture feature. I think I'm going to buy and register it. You can import MC recipes into LC, can't you? Thanks much for the link. thanks, Mike At 04:02 PM 5/16/2009, Carolyn wrote: Hi Mike, there is a lot of debate about the best software. MC is definitely the most widely used, so most formatting lists use it - it is however not being maintained or updated by the company that now own it, and there are I believe a lot of issues with Vista (I use XP so don't have that issue). I personally prefer Living Cookbook, by a mile. However, because I love collecting recipes and am in a number of formatting groups, and they all use MC, I use MC mainly. Basically I use LC and MC side by side. I do a lot of formatting and do it all into MC. You asked about formatting groups - these are places where people get together to format recipes into MC (usually) format and share them - either invividual recipes or whole books. I have run a vegetarian one for over 2 years now, and we have a great group of formatters and fantastic recipes coming through, so if you do decide to buy recipe software and want to build up your veggie recipe collection, keep a note of the link in my signature - I don't normally include this when I post on other lists (unless I forget, which is rare) as I don't feel right " advertising " but am doing this as a one-off as you asked about it. Hope this is ok. Carolyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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