I have waged an epic battle on recipes... and I am going to win. At first I thought I wanted a gigantic cook book that I could manually organize all the recipes that we use and throw the rest away. So I asked for one for Christmas, but my mom found this instead, and is forcing me into the depths of technology once again.

The Living Cookbook, this thing is awesome. It is a recipe management computer program.  It is going to take quite a bit of work to set it up and customize it so that it is at its peak usefulness, but after watching all of the tutorials, I am very excited about all that this thing can do.

If you want to see the miracle for yourself, click here to see the video demos. 

 
Here are some of my favorite features:

1.    Enter recipes with as much or as little detail as you like.

2.    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.

3.    Copy recipes from the Internet.

4.    Calculate recipe nutrition from the recipe ingredients or enter the nutrition data manually.

5.    Search, filter and save searches

6.    Calculate recipe costs.  

7.    Enter preparation time, cooking time, inactive time and total time.

8.    Organize recipes into cookbooks, chapters, sub-chapters, etc. according to your needs.

9.    Print your recipes on any paper format: US letter, legal, A4, 4x6 index card, 3x5 index card and more.

10. Scale recipes to any number of servings.

11. Publish your cookbooks with tables of contents and indexes.

12. Print your publication from within Living Cookbook or export it as a Microsoft Word document.

13. Format your publication using your choice of fonts, colors, spacing and layouts.

14. Choose from over 7000 ingredients with nutrition data provided by the USDA.

15. Enter your own custom ingredients or copy them from the Internet.

16. Import new USDA nutrition as it is made available by the USDA.

17. Assign costs, grocery aisles and preferred stores to ingredients.

18. Calculate menu costs.

19. View nutrition and cost summary information for a day or a range of dates.

20. View meal calendar in month, week or day mode.

21. Add recipe, ingredients, menus or meals grocery lists or enter the grocery list items manually.

22. Create a grocery list for multiple stores.

23. Calculate grocery list costs and subtotal by store.

24. Automatically organize the grocery list by aisles.

25. Customize grocery aisles by store, including grocery aisle order.

26. Create a grocery list to restock inventory.

27. Create a grocery list for a range of meal plan dates.

28. Automatically combine like grocery list items (e.g. "1 cup milk" and "1 pint milk" will be combined automatically to read "1 1/2 pints milk".

29. Manage your kitchen inventory.

30. Control the ordering properties of any inventory item (minimum order quantity, order at level, order up to level, etc.).

31. Create a printable inventory worksheet to help you take stock of your kitchen.

32. Print multiple recipes, ingredient, etc. at once.