Any good recipe program is worth it, IMO. I love the one I use -- Now You're Cooking. It does everything the rest of them does, maybe more: Keeps multiple cookbooks, searches across cookbooks, categorizes, menu planner, conversions, nutritional values, shopping lists, shopping aisles, coupon keeper, cooking glossary, eliminates duplicate recipes from multiple cookbooks, imports text, web page-e-mail-ng imports using a screen import function, imports other (or exports to) major recipe programs recipes, has a library of hundreds of thousands of recipes on its site, and prints out recipe cards of all sizes. (When someone asks you for a copy of a favorite recipe, you can give it to them in the size they'll want to store. That's slicker than only having it available in .rtf or .doc file or plain print-out for them.)
StaplesThere was the mention of having a pantry in another thread. The thread reminded me of certain items I always keep on hand. For...
I like the NYC feature where I can paste a picture into the recipe. It's nice being able to scan a recipe from the newspaper or magazine, at keep the photo, too.
There's a Yahoo newsgroup for it and the program's author, Gary Hauser, answers people's questions himself.
Staples 3771Dog3 I buy canned tomatoes frequently and may have extras from time to time but usually just buy them when I need them. Not really a staple in my kitchen...
There should be a 60-day trial version on the web: www.ffts.com
I started collecting recipes back in the DOS days using MealMaster. All my original recipes transferred over successfully.
