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TopTenReviews Gold Award

TopTenREVIEWS picked Living Cookbook 2015 as the best cooking and recipe management software. Take a look at the comparison chart below and you will see why.

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Recipe Management
 Copy recipes from the Internet
 One-click download of Internet recipes
 Automatically organize downloaded recipes into chapters
 Import recipes from Meal-Master and MasterCook
 Import recipes from Big Oven
 Import recipes from Cook'n
 Calculate recipe nutrition
 Recipe nutrition graphs
 Share recipes with other users
 Export recipes as HTML
 Include images, videos and attachments in export files
 Scale recipes
 Convert recipe units
 Add images to recipes
 Add multiple images to a recipe
 Add images to recipe procedures
 Scan images directly into the software
 Add media (audio or video) to recipes
 Add file attachments to recipes
 Organize recipes into folders and subfolders
 Enter recipe reviews and ratings
 Advanced recipe searches with "and" and  "or"
 Share searches with other users
 Flag recipes as favorite
 E-mail recipes from within the software
 Customizable recipe displays
 View nutrition for each recipe ingredient
 Calculate recipe costs
 Automatically eliminate duplicate recipes
 Recipe spell checker
 As-you-type spell checking
 User-defined recipe attributes
 Undo and redo recipe additions, changes and deletions
 Copy and paste recipes, chapters and cookbooks
Meal Planning
 View daily, weekly and monthly meal plans
 View meal and day total nutrition
 Calculate meal costs
 Share meal plans with other users
 Move and copy meal items
 Add an entire meal plan to a grocery list
 Search meal plan by day, meal and meal item
Menu Management
 Calculate menu nutrition
 Scale menus
 Share menus with other users
 Calculate menu costs
 Add images to menus
 Add media (audio or video) to menus
 Add file attachments to menus
 User-defined menu attributes
 Menu search
Ingredient Management
 Create new ingredients
 Add images to ingredients
 Add file attachments to ingredients
 Add any number custom measures to ingredients
 Import USDA nutrition updates
 Share ingredients with other users
 Enter multiple prices for an ingredient
 User-defined ingredient attributes
 Ingredient search
Cooking Reference
 Searchable library of cooking techniques
 Add images to cooking techniques
 Add media (audio and video) to techniques
 Add file attachments to techniques
 Searchable cooking glossary
 Add images to glossary items
 Add file attachments to glossary items
 Share reference information with other users
 Technique and glossary item search search
Shopping
 Create an unlimited number of grocery lists
 Create grocery lists from meals, menus or  recipes
 Calculate grocery list cost
 Group grocery lists by grocery aisles
 Share store and ingredient pricing data with other users
 Create grocery lists involving multiple stores
Inventory (Pantry)
 Track what you have on hand
 Determine what you can make with what you have on hand
 Create a grocery list to restock inventory
 Deduct on-hand items from grocery lists
 Share inventory data with other users
 Inventory item search
Publishing
 Publish cookbooks in Microsoft Word
 Create user-defined cookbook formats
 Print recipes on index cards
Tools
 Password-protect recipe database
 Unit converter tool
 Backup application database
 Compact application database
 Database of cooking web sites
 Database of cooking RSS feeds
 Built-in support for pen scanners
Help and Support
 Illustrated online help
 Searchable help with index
 Animated training tutorials