Recipe management, meal planning, grocery list and cookbook publishing software

Living Cookbook 2008 is the seventh major release of the best-selling recipe management software from Radium Technologies. Use Living Cookbook to plan meals, manage your recipe collection, publish cookbooks, create grocery lists, manage your kitchen inventory, create menus, create grocery lists, calculate nutrition and more...

* Manage your recipe collection
* Plan meals using the meal planning calendar
* Calculate nutrition for any recipe, menu or meal
* Create grocery lists organized by grocery aisle
* Manage your kitchen's inventory
* Publish and print cookbooks
* Print on any size paper, including index cards
* Share your recipes as files or e-mails
* Import every major recipe file format
* Copy recipes directly from the Internet
* Help file with over 450 help topics
* Online support forum with over 28,000 members

Features:

Working with recipes

* Enter recipes with as much or as little detail as you like.
* Add images to recipes. In fact you can add a main recipe image, a source image and an image for every recipe procedure step, if you want to.
* Copy recipes from the Internet.
* Calculate recipe nutrition from the recipe ingredients or enter the nutrition data manually.
* Calculate recipe costs.
* Share recipes with others, even if they don't own Living Cookbook. You can export, e-mail or import recipes in all of the major recipe file formats.
* Add ratings and reviews to recipes.
* Add audio or video files to recipes.
* Assign recipe types and categories.
* Enter the recipe's oven temperature in either Celsius or Fahrenheit.
* Choose from five degrees of difficulty.
* Use a recipe as an ingredient in another recipe.
* Enter preparation time, cooking time, inactive time and total time.
* Organize recipes into cookbooks, chapters, sub-chapters, etc. according to your needs.
* Customize recipe displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
* Add any number of tips to a recipe to record recipe variations, serving suggestions, wine pairings, etc.
* Enter author, source, web page, copyright and author notes for any recipe.
* Print your recipes on any paper format: US letter, legal, A4, 4x6 index card, 3x5 index card and more.
* Scale recipes to any number of servings.
* Convert recipe units to and from Imperial or metric units.
* Eliminate duplicate recipes automatically.
* Compare any two recipes side-by-side.

Publishing

* Publish your cookbooks with tables of contents and indexes.
* Print your publication from within Living Cookbook or export it as a Microsoft Word document.
* Format your publication using your choice of fonts, colors, spacing and layouts.

Working with ingredients

* Choose from over 7000 ingredients with nutrition data provided by the USDA.
* Enter your own custom ingredients or copy them from the Internet.
* Import new USDA nutrition as it is made available by the USDA.
* Add ingredient images and source images.
* Add any number of custom measures (units) for each ingredient.
* Assign costs, grocery aisles and preferred stores to ingredients.
* Enter ingredient nodes to describe the ingredient, record uses and preparation information, etc.
* Share ingredients with other Living Cookbook users.
* Organize ingredients into folders and sub-folders.
* Customize ingredient displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
* Eliminate duplicate ingredients automatically.
* Compare any two ingredients side-by-side.
* Copy ingredients from the Internet.