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Digital Cookbook
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Infostudio Team's Digital Cookbook is a great cooking software with a lot of features and capabilities.

With Digital Cookbook you can easily store and organize your recipes in groups. Also, you can easily retrieve them from your local database using powerful search engine. You can search for recipes by the name, time needed for cooking, number of servings, or even by the nutrients contained in them. When you find the recipe you want, you can also print it. You can print multiple chosen recipes and thus make your own printed cookbook.

Every recipe can have detailed description, preparation instructions, list of ingredients needed for cooking and a picture.

Features

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Organizing recipes into recipe groups, adding, editing and deleting recipes, moving recipes and groups from one group to another using drag & drop.  
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Organizing ingredients into ingredient types, adding, editing and deleting ingredients, moving ingredients from one type to another by using drag & drop.
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Organizing recipe menus in menu groups, adding, editing and deleting menus, moving menus and groups from one group to another using drag & drop.  
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Adding, editing and deleting measurement units in which you want to express ingredients in your recipes.
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Calculating nutrition facts per one serving of selected recipe, based on nutrition facts for 100g of contained ingredients.
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Calculating menu costs, based on entered ingredient costs. Very useful for creating shopping list and costs planning.
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Powerful search engine for searching recipes and ingredients, by entering various search criteria (string pattern search, search by nutrition facts, search by ingredients contained).
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Printing with print preview of recipes, ingredient and menus. You can print single or multiple recipes and ingredients in reports, choosing whether you want to show pictures and nutrition facts or not. Also, you can print menus with all ingredients needed for recipes contained in selected menu and thus to create grocery shopping list. All printing reports can be customized!
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A lot of customizable options: main window position and background color, toolbars, reports, and even a policy for keeping database integrity, and all of that in very simple, understandable and user friendly interface.
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Importing recipes from three most popular recipe formats: MasterCook, Meal Master and Computer Chef.
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Exporting recipes to above mentioned format and also into HTML, for publishing on Internet and into Microsoft Word format.
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Sending recipe to mail, using your default mail client.
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Good, detailed help for every form, menu and toolbar item and also for standard procedures in working with application.
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Organizing cooking tips groups, adding, editing and deleting cooking tips, moving cooking tips and groups from one group to another using drag & drop.  
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User management and diet progress tracking taking note of all relevant user's measures, calculating body mass index, fat percentage and other factors (NOTE: only in Plus version).
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Kitchen assistant, an office-like assistant who helps users get information about application (NOTE: only in Plus version).
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Viewing user's diet progress in calendar and in chart (NOTE: only in Plus version).

Screen shots

Digital Cookbook consists of several forms in which you can organize and manage you recipes, ingredients, recipe menus and measurement units. The main form is recipe form in which you can enter all information needed for one recipe - its name, description, contents, preparation instruction, picture and nutrition facts. Recipes are grouped in hierarchically organized in recipe groups. You can also change this organization, by adding new groups, deleting or renaming groups, or by organizing them simply by using drag & drop.
Digital Cookbook has a big database of pre-entered ingredients included. Thanks to that, you can easily select ingredients when entering your recipes. Ingredients are grouped in hierarchical organized ingredient types. You can also change this organization by adding new types, deleting or renaming types, or by reorganizing them simply by dragging and dropping them. Every ingredient has information about its nutrition values, and based on that values a nutrition analysis of recipes is performed.
In calendar view it is possible to assign recipes to exact dates. With assigning recipes to dates you can create lists of ingredients needed for assigned recipes, just like in menus view. You can even select date interval and create list of ingredients it. Recipes can be assigned one by one, or copied from already created menus and it is done from very user friendly wizard dialog. It is also possible to print the report for selected date or selected date interval with detailed list of recipes and ingredients needed for them, for each day and for the whole date interval.
Powerful search engine is a part of Digital Cookbook. When searching for recipes, you can enter various criteria, like name and group, specify the desired value of some nutrients and even to choose which ingredients you like to be included or excluded in recipe. From the result list you can easily open selected recipe in recipe form, or to print it (one or more) with or without photos and nutrition analysis. You can also search the ingredients.
If you want to have your recipes, menus or ingredients in paper form you can also print them using recipes report. Reports are configurable so you can choose if you want to print recipes with or without photographs attached, and with or without nutrition facts. Reports can be started either from recipe / ingredients / menu forms, or from search forms. When printing menus you get the complete list of all ingredients needed so you can use this report as a shopping list. Before printing on paper a nice "what you see is what you get" print preview is shown, so you can check and preview the report that is about to be printed.
Recipes in Digital Cookbook can be entered either by entering them manually, or by importing them from files. Currently there are several recipe formats supported: MasterCook, Meal Master and Computer Chef. Digital Cookbook is not be able to perform nutritional analysis for such imported recipes, because ingredients for them are not formally entered, but still you can manually enter nutrition facts for such recipes.
Digital Cookbook is also capable of exporting recipes to those mentioned format plus HTML, so you can easily create your own on-line cookbook, by just selecting recipes and exporting them to HTML file.
In options dialog you can set program parameters and that way to customize you copy of Digital Cookbook. There is a great set of options you can change in order to set the Digital Cookbook work for you exactly as you want it to do. In this dialog you can change the background color, save toolbars and main form positions and size, set the currency in which you want the recipe costs to be expressed, set the e-mail parameters for sending recipes to your friends, by mail and even to change the policy for keeping the database consistent. All options are pretty intuitive and well documented in help which is part of Digital Cookbook.

Digital Cookbook Plus version has, beside all standard features, a user management option. You can create any number of users which will be tracked by Digital Cookbook. User properties include their basic information, including the height (which is relevant for calculating various body factors) and even a picture. After at least one user is entered in Digital Cookbook Plus, all user related features are enabled. See below for the details. (ONLY PLUS VERSION)

When at least one user is selected and activated, you can start entering the measures in user's diary. User's diary is actually a calendar oriented form in which you can enter measurements for each day. At this moment, those measures include, depending on user's gender:
weight, chest skin thickness in chest, triceps, suprailiac, thigh region, and circumference of the waist and hips. Based on those measures, some important body factors are calculated: body mass index, body fat percentage, basal metabolic rate and waist to hip ratio. You can also take a picture and attach it to the date when it's taken. (ONLY PLUS VERSION)

Based on the measures taken and entered in user's diary, body mass index, body fat percentage, basal metabolic rate and waist to hip ratio are calculated. All those factors and user's weight can be tracked in diary, but also can be graphically presented, in a body measurements chart for selected date interval. This chart is also configurable, so you can see all the factors, or just those you want to see. Chart can also be zoomed and printed to paper. (ONLY PLUS VERSION)

Minimum requirements

Digital Cookbook requires the following hardware and software configuration in order to run properly:

  • Any hardware configuration capable of running at least Windows 98 operating system
  • At least 20 MB free space on hard disk.
  • Windows 98 (or later) or Windows 2000 (or later)
  • Microsoft Word 2000 or later, for using spell check and export to Word features (not necessary if you don't want to use it).

Recommended configuration:

  • Pentium IV 1000+ MHz processor.
  • 256+ MB of RAM
  • At least 50 MB free space on hard disk.
  • Windows XP (or later)
  • Microsoft Word 2000 or later, for using spell check and export to Word features (not necessary if you don't want to use it).

 

Ordering and registering

Digital Cookbook is free to try, so you do not have to register if you only want to try it. After trial period (15 days) is over you have to stop use it or to buy a program. To register yourself as a licensed user of Digital Cookbook you have to order a registration number which will be sent to you in 24 hours from the moment your payment is processed. After that you will have to enter your registration number in Digital Cookbook to unlock which will provide you to use it for unlimited period. Registered users can buy every new major version with some discount and to get every new minor version for FREE (registration number is valid for all minor versions with the same major version number).
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Earn money with Digital Cookbook

If you own a web site, newsletter, or you have some idea for reselling our software, you can earn money only by advertising Digital Cookbook. Actually - you can earn 30% of all income made through your site or your means of reselling. In partnership with ShareIt! we made affiliate program for reselling Digital Cookbook.

All you have to do to become a part of the program is to sign up to ShareIt!, by clicking on the address below, and to start advertising Digital Cookbook on your site.

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All online payment made by clicking the appropriate link on your web page is recorded at ShareIt! immediately after the payment is processed, you get you commission that is 30% of the Digital Cookbook Plus price ($29.95), so from every payment you get almost $9.00.

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