A computer program to catalog my recipes?
Written by Guest on October 28th, 2011
Question by gonefornow: A computer program to catalog my recipes?
I’m looking for a program that will help me to catalog my favorite recipes and make them easily searchable. Is there such a thing? Does anyone know where I could get it?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks!
Best answer:
Answer by chefgrille
If you find one, PLEASE email me! I’ve been dying to find the same thing myself!
What do you think? Answer below!
October 28th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
give this a go (it’s free):
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Business/Personal_Info_Managers/Recipe_Manager___Your_Cooking_Companion.html
October 28th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
I’ve used Mastercook/Cooking Light for years. The program comes w recipes (and pics), and you can add your own. You can find it on ebay.
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&fnu=1&from=R10&satitle=mastercook+&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=91423&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=3%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=
October 28th, 2011 at 2:29 pm
I purchased mine at Best By– It’s called Cookin’. It let’s you enter your own recipes, gives you the food values, calculates values per serving, and it lets you adjust a recipe up or down once you have it enter in. There are a few drawbacks such as it doesn’t spellcheck, grammer check or have special symbol insert like the degree circle. But on the whole it is the best one I have found and I used a few others. You can download a version from DVO.com. Also you get free up-grades. And I’ll give you all the tips you want in using it. Let’s of luck!!
October 28th, 2011 at 2:39 pm
What I have been doing for years is to “type” the recipe up when I get it and give it a name such as “Cherry Pie 1″ and save it to my computer in a Word file segregating the different types such as pies, cakes, stews, meats, etc.. Once I have all of the recipes saved to these files, I maintain an Excel spreadsheet with all of the recipe names listed with a description and location (in the Word files). Doing a sort on the Excel file to find a specific recipe that I am looking for yields the Word file location on my computer – I then either read it or print a copy to use in the kitchen. This has worked very well for years – once you get used to it, the recipe card holder goes into the garage sale. I hope this helps.