Shop'NCook Pro for Windows 4.0.0 Beta

BETA (December 1, 2009)

Windows (All) / Shareware; $99.95 / 402 downloads

Shop'NCook is a smart recipe organizer combined with a grocery list manager. Recipes are easily added by typing them in, pasting them from the clipboard, or importing directly from the internet: no formatting is necessary. The wizard interprets the recipes, links them to the large database of grocery items and yields the nutritional analysis automatically. You organize your recipes in cookbooks that you can share with the free Shop'NCook Reader software. A powerful scaling tool lets you scale the ingredients and the text of your recipes, make automatic ingredient substitutions and unit conversions. The ingredients of the recipes are converted to your preferred shopping units and added to a collating grocery list with a click. Contrary to most cooking software, grocery lists can also be created by directly selecting items of the database, adding from sublists or just typing in new items. Other features: recipes can link to other recipes; nutrition scripts to control the display of nutritional information and compute custom nutritional formulas; e-mail tool to send recipes and shopping lists; direct access to an online recipe database where Shop'NCook users share their recipes.

Shop'NCook Pro includes costing functions as well as a meal planner that lets you manage a library of menus and organize your meals for each day of a calendar. Ingredients for several days of menu are added selectively to the shopping list with a click. The costing tool allows you to cost out your recipes and menus and budget your groceries. The cost estimates are itemized by ingredient and corrected for waste. A cost database can be edited in the software or imported from a text file. The Pro version allows also to organize the cookbooks by chapters and by categories.