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Product Description:
Write your shopping lists and organize your recipes with Shop'NCook. Shopping lists are composed in seconds by clicking on items or adding from recipes. Shop'NCook includes a database of nearly 2000 grocery items that makes it a snap to start writing shopping lists without having to input hundreds of items. By organizing the items according to the aisles of your supermarket, you save considerable time and efforts during shopping. The recipe manager lets you input your own recipes and search the recipes by title, categories, and ingredients. You can scale the quantities for the number of servings, and add the ingredients of a recipe to the shopping list with a click. Shop'NCook's unique browser tool lets you localize and import recipes directly from internet. Have fun uncovering hundreds of thousands of recipes scattered in internet archives. Other features includes: nutritional information, e-mail tool to send shopping lists and share recipes with friends, sublists, automatic unit conversion, import/export, direct access to TheRecipeDatabase.com.
What's new in this version:
Import/export, nutritional information, specialized browser to localize and import recipes from internet, direct access to Shop'NCook online recipe database, automatic unit conversion, sublists, double-column printing of shopping lists
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.0
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS Classic
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Download Shop'NCook Shopping List & Recipe Manager Version 3.0 (File Size: 2.5M)
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Download Shop'NCook Shopping List & Recipe Manager Current Version (File Size: 3.8M)
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| Overall Rating: |   (4.0) |
Features: | Not rated (0.0) | Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | Not rated (0.0) |
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Includes nutritional database (Review and product comparison) - Version: 3.1, 4/25/2006 09:05AM PST
(5 of 5 users found this comment useful)
kalsta
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- Includes nutritional database (Review and product comparison) (1 replies)
Busy busy - Version: 3.1, 12/7/2005 03:58PM PST
VictorFromTN
This program has an interface with way too many elements. And I think it falls down on the most important aspect: display of the recipes. You type in your recipe as a big story, and what you get back is big clump of text. Not at all good for printing out, let alone for onscreen display if you have your Mac in the kitchen. For a far better solution, check out Connoisseur.
A bit PC-ish, but powerful. - Version: 3.0, 7/25/2004 11:56PM PST
iamdorian
This program has a bit of a PC feeling, both ignoring some Mac GUI guidelines and in its general GUI layout. Windows often use their own custom buttons and ignore Mac interface guidelines (clicking on the window close [red] button, for example does nothing, you have to use their separate cancel button). That said, it does work. I've looked at several recipe-shopping list type programs for OSX, and (of those listing here on VersionTracker) this seems the most robust.
I need a recipe and nutrition application with the ability to generate shopping lists...that can also update an existing larder (DB), for the purposes of utilizing and replenishing stores. I am using it for preparing for emergencies and building a useable stockpile of food and supplies. Certainly expeditions could use it too, and what about families that have learned the wisdom of shopping for a wholesale and warehouse bulk purchase stores?
Obviously a restaurant owner/manager could use a larder-style look-up and resupply alarm/updating tool joined at the hip to a recipe and nutrition planner. Such a solution woudl be a no-brainer purchase for anyone from a restaurant owner to a food dispensary, soup kitchen, or camp supervisor! If necessary, this could be in the Pro Version. Hey, I'd pay extra!
Luckily this program seems to have a rather robust set of export options, so it can be used in conjunction with a spreadsheet of data at this time. However, a built-in larder/stores DB should not be hard to add, and would set this program apart as the only application for OSX with that sort of power. Add this feature and tweak the GUI a bit and this program would be in a class all by itself.
Another great point is that this program has a good help file, and lots of downloadable data from recipe data to nutrional information. This is a real plus.
To show my support, I am placing my order now. I have the faith that a PRO feature larder version is in the works. When this feature is added I can think of at least a half dozen families that will buy a copy.
:::tap:::tap:::tap:::tap::: : )
Bon appetite!
I need a recipe and nutrition application with the ability to generate shopping lists...that can also update an existing larder (DB), for the purposes of utilizing and replenishing stores. I am using it for preparing for emergencies and building a useable stockpile of food and supplies. Certainly expeditions could use it too, and what about families that have learned the wisdom of shopping for a wholesale and warehouse bulk purchase stores?
Obviously a restaurant owner/manager could use a larder-style look-up and resupply alarm/updating tool joined at the hip to a recipe and nutrition planner. Such a solution woudl be a no-brainer purchase for anyone from a restaurant owner to a food dispensary, soup kitchen, or camp supervisor! If necessary, this could be in the Pro Version. Hey, I'd pay extra!
Luckily this program seems to have a rather robust set of export options, so it can be used in conjunction with a spreadsheet of data at this time. However, a built-in larder/stores DB should not be hard to add, and would set this program apart as the only application for OSX with that sort of power. Add this feature and tweak the GUI a bit and this program would be in a class all by itself.
Another great point is that this program has a good help file, and lots of downloadable data from recipe data to nutrional information. This is a real plus.
To show my support, I am placing my order now. I have the faith that a PRO feature larder version is in the works. When this feature is added I can think of at least a half dozen families that will buy a copy.
:::tap:::tap:::tap:::tap::: : )
Bon appetite!
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Shop'NCook is one of the better recipe programs I have tested. I would probably rate Connoisseur and A Cook's Books higher, but only just and for different reasons: Connoisseur is less feature rich but has the most user-friendly interface, and A Cook's Books has the most features. Organized Gourmet is another good option if meal planning is more important to you.
The programs I tested, roughly in order of preference were:
Note: There are many others that I didn't test at all because they looked less promising, based on their descriptions and other people's reviews. There is one commercial product (TheRecipeManager) I refuse to test because of the developer's crazy policy of buy before you try. While I have tried to give a fair and honest appraisal of each product, I don't pretend that each review is exhaustive or totally without error. If I have overlooked any feature, it's possibly an indication that the feature was difficult to find or unintuitive to use — so in any case the reviews are a valid record of my opinion and individual experience.