Cookbooks Software

Cookbooks Software

Radium Technologies, Inc.Living Cookbook 2008
Software (Radium Technologies, Inc.)
List Price: $54.95
  • Manage your recipe collection: Living Cookbook makes it easy to enter new recipes, copy them from the Internet, or even scan them from cookbooks and magazines. Want to share your recipes with others? You can export or e-mail your recipes in a variety of formats, including FDX, HTML, Meal-Master, MasterCook and more.
  • Plan meals: Just drag and drop recipes, ingredients and menus onto your meal plan. Plan a single meal, a day, a week, a month or more. Ready to shop for your meals? Just add your meal plan (or any part of it) to a grocery list.
  • Calculate nutrition for any recipe, menu or meal: Living Cookbook's nutrition display is completely customizable. Want to see nutrition facts just like you are used to seeing them on product packaging? We can do that. Want to see more than 150 different nutrients, including Weight Watchers Points, trans fat, net carbs, vitamins, minerals, lycopene, beta carotene, caffeine and more? We can do that, too.
  • Create grocery lists: Living Cookbook makes it easy to create a shopping list from scratch or from recipes, ingredients, menus and meal plans. The software will combine like items, organize them by your store's grocery aisles, and calculate the cost of each item and the cost of the entire grocery list.
  • Publish and print cookbooks: Want to create your own cookbook as a Christmas gift, for retail sale, or for a church or school fundraiser? Living Cookbook can help you do it. You can print a cookbook with a cover page, table of contents, recipes and index directly from the software with just three clicks. Or you can export your cookbook to Microsoft Word and customize it to your heart's content.

The Cookbook PeopleMatilda's Fantastic Cookbook Software 4.0
Software (The Cookbook People)
List Price: $39.95
  • Cookbook software to make a family cookbook. Write a cookbook, organize a cookbook and print a cookbook.
  • Extremely easy to use. Designed for grandma or guru. Great for family reunions.
  • Layout is automatic. Just type in recipes, select a design, and hit print.
  • 27 design layouts. Large & small type sizes.
  • Bonus: Print an address book, birthday calendar, family tree

Microsoft PressC# Programmer's Cookbook (Pro Developer)
Book (Microsoft Press)
List Price: $49.99

The Cookbook PeopleMatilda's Fantastic Cookbook Software 4.0 with Easy-Bind Kit
Software (The Cookbook People)
  • Create a cookbook for you family, church, organization or wedding
  • Extremely easy to use. Designed for grandma or guru. Great for family reunions.
  • Layout is automatic. Just type in recipes, select a design, and hit print.
  • 27 design layouts. Large & small type sizes.
  • Includes Easy-Bind Kit, allowing you to easily print and bind your cookbook right from your home computer.

Intel PrThe Software Optimization Cookbook Second Edition. High Performance Recipes for IA 32 Platforms
Book (Intel Pr)
List Price: $69.95
Price: $69.95

Fundcraft PublishingFundcraft Digital Cookbook
Software (Fundcraft Publishing)
List Price: $19.99
Price: $19.99
  • 250,000 recipe database in seven food categories. . Search the database using the recipe title, state, country, servings, or ingredients to find that special recipe.
  • Build your own family cookbook with cover and divider designs available and print a copy
  • Add notes, or comments to any recipe with email a friend feature.
  • Huge cooking glossary at your fingertips with the U.S.D.A database available to obtain the nutritional facts along with kitchen unit converter.
  • Cook and entertain like a pro, selecting just the right recipe. Healthy eating recipes by the thousands... just healthy, just seafood, just cookies, recipes for vegetarians, and more¿

The Cookbook PeopleMatilda's Easy-Bind Cookbook Kit
Kitchen (The Cookbook People)
  • These kits are designed to allow you to easily print and bind a family, church or group cookbook right from your home computer.
  • Print your recipe book from Matilda's Fantastic Cookbook Software (sold separately on Amazon) onto pre-punched sheets
  • Add the clear plastic sheets to the front and back of your book
  • 1/2" black plastic spine snaps closed binding up to 85 sheets together
  • Size 8-1/2" x 11", up to 85 sheets.

DVO EnterprisesCook'n for Kids
Software (DVO Enterprises)
List Price: $19.99

DVO EnterprisesCook'n Healthy Collection 3 CD-ROM Set (Jewel Case)
Software (DVO Enterprises)
List Price: $14.99

Davka CorpJewish Computer Kosher Cookbook Software
Single Detail Page Misc (Davka Corp)
  • 300 mouthwatering recipes; 100 gorgeous photos
  • Innovative scaling function enables automatic adjustments of recipes for different serving amounts
  • Versatile table of contents arranged according to Jewish holidays and recipe category
  • Helpful Kashrut guide; Extensive glossary of cooking terms; Speedy search by ingredient, recipe or index
  • Original Manufacturer Shrinkwrap

Cookbook Software


What started out as a way to get rid of all my recipe clutter turned into a Christmas project in 1998. I was tired of all the loose recipes flying around my recipe cupboard and started typing them up. Ten years ago our family budget was really tight so I decided to make a recipe book for my Mom and Sisters that year for gifts. They loved it and even my In-Laws loved it even though it was mostly recipes from my family since we had only been married 2 years. I created the cookbook using WordPerfect. It was a lot of manual work, but I knew the software well enough I was able to make it do what I wanted it to do.
For the last couple of years I've been wanting to update that cookbook. My copy is trashed and my recipe clutter has increased ten fold! (Mark would say 100 fold) I've searched for basic software to make the cookbook but have never found any I like. All the ones I found were too complex or I had to have that company publish it and then you have to order 1000 copies.
This last week I think I finally found my solution! Once again I did a Google Search and this time found a fairly new company called The Cookbook People. It will allow me to cut and paste the recipes I already have typed up and add to those recipes. I can then print it at home and take it to the local copier to copy and bind. And the software is only $29.95. I even e-mailed them with a few questions and they not only replied, the developer called me to discuss my ideas. Made me feel important!
I'm now waiting until their next software release comes out in the next couple of weeks before I purchase it. But...

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Cookbooks Software Archives

New cookbooks give a taste of how to be healthier in 2009
Knoxville News Sentinel, TN - Dec 31, 2008
Thebestlife.com, includes a calendar planner to help plan meals and activities and recipe analysis software to help determine nutritional values on some of

Lisa Abraham: More families will be cooking at home with recession
Akron Beacon Journal, OH - Dec 30, 2008
There will be a host of cookbooks and software gadgets all geared toward teaching us how to cook. And for the first time, we may actually begin to use food

Reasons for Buying a Bakers Rack
PWO, France - Dec 17, 2008
to store your favorite selection of cookbooks. Keeping the ones you use most often in an web design software accessible area saves time and energy.

Cooking in the Mobile Cloud
Mobility Site, AL - Dec 12, 2008
I’ve clipped recipes, searched for recipes on the web, and amassed quite a collection of cookbooks over the years. Recently I decided to organize my


Washington Times
ROMper Room: Cooking goes from virtual to hands-on
Washington Times, DC - Dec 20, 2008
Bringing in the personality of the "Naked Chef," this interactive cooking trainer features a cookbook-size serving of Mr. Oliver's recipes.