Select a chapter, click Add Recipe, and type in your recipe. It's that easy! No complicated forms to fill out, no restrictions on the format or number of ingredients, and plenty of flexibility. Add as many personal notes as you wish (for ratings, reviews, sources, etc.), or add information text for food glossaries, conversion charts, or other reference material. When you're done, use the built-in spell checker to check for spelling errors. If you have a photo of your recipe, you can add that too!

 

No celebrity cookbooks. No expensive recipe collections. No internet access required. Just the easiest way to add a world of free recipes to your personal collection. Home Cookin recipe software supports most recipe formats (including meal-master, mastercook, and more), and a manual import feature makes it easy to transfer all other recipes to Home Cookin Recipe Software. Thousands of free recipes are available on email lists, web forums, newsgroups like rec.food.recipes, recipe CD's, or web sites like cooks.com, RecipeZaar.com, and many others. You can even import recipes from other recipe applications. You'll never run out of recipes!

 

The familiar chapter layout makes it easy to browse for new recipes. Or, use the Find feature to search thousands of recipes in seconds! You can locate recipes by title, search for recipes using ingredients you have on hand, exclude items you want to ignore, and much more.

Share all your favorite recipes with friends and family members. You can export recipes directly to email, or save the recipes to a disk or USB flash drive. Home Cookin Recipe Software can also export to meal-master or mastercook formats if your friends use other recipe software.

If you're having guests for dinner, or it's just the two of you, let Home Cookin recipe software adjust the recipe ingredients for the number of servings you require. You can resize recipes for special occasions, or resize recipes permanently so they suit your family best.

Don't worry about getting your treasured cookbooks dirty or trying to hold a book open. Enter your recipes into Home Cookin Recipe Software and print them out to index cards when you want to prepare them. Home Cookin supports a variety of card sizes, including perforated multiple card sheets. You can even create simple cookbooks by printing to letter size pages, or print index cards you can place in a decorative photo album. These make great gifts for weddings or baby showers!

 

When you need to make a better impression, use Home Cookin recipe software to create professionally bound paperback or hardcover cookbooks in a variety of sizes. Give cookbooks as gifts, create a church cookbook, or sell custom cookbooks for a fundraiser.

 

As your recipe collection grows, you will most likely end up with duplicate recipes. Home Cookin Recipe Software uses an advanced statistical analysis to locate similar recipes, even when the titles are different, ingredients are listed in different orders, words are misspelled, or additional notes have been added. Best of all, the choice is always yours. Home Cookin will never delete recipes without your approval.

Use Home Cookin Recipe Software to plan your meals for the coming week, following month, or even years ahead. You can plan as many meals as you wish each day, with as many recipes as you need. Add notes to your meal plan to indicate special occasions, meals you'll be eating out, reminders of when to start dinner, etc. Move your meals to new days easily if you didn't make them as planned, or copy the meals to additional days if you end up with leftovers. You can organize meals for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, or any other hour of the day. You can even keep old meal plans if you want to see what you made for a holiday dinner in past years.

 

Whether you're making a quick trip to the store, or planning a few weeks of meals, Home Cookin recipe software makes it easy to prepare a shopping list. You can quickly find the items you need for your recipes, and easily add non-grocery items like toothpaste, napkins, and cleaners. If you buy common items frequently, Home Cookin Recipe Software can even select them for you automatically. If you're on a budget, you can use the price estimate to determine which items you should avoid buying this trip. You can define which stores you buy specific items from and even the aisle they are located on. When you're ready to go shopping, the grocery list is automatically sorted by store and location to make your trip as quick and painless as possible.

If you are going on vacation, travel frequently, or have a winter home, take Home Cookin with you! Home Cookin Recipe Software can be run directly from a USB flash drive and won't save any files on the destination computer. So you can safely access your recipes, groceries, and meal plans at an internet cafe, library, or any PC with a USB port.