Recipe software with nutritional values

jmk said:

I was wondering if someone could recommend some good software that will calculate the (accurate!)
nutritional value of recipes, etc. Of course recipe management and printing (letter size) is a
must as well :-) It looks like Accuchef, Living Cookbook, MasterCook, Now You're Cooking, and
Cook'n might be options. What are your thoughts?

I'm testing Bigoven right now, (BigOven.com ) and it will caclulate nutritional value. You have to
link the ingrediants in order for it to work, but it works ok for the most part. Big Oven is still
in a testing phase and you can download it for free.

I'm currently using Cook'n at home, and am finding that Big Oven is easier to use . Just my .02

Deb/ Seattlejo

Seattlejo said:

jmk said:

I was wondering if someone could recommend some good software that will calculate the (accurate!)
nutritional value of recipes, etc. Of course recipe management and printing (letter size) is a
must as well
:-) It looks like Accuchef, Living Cookbook, MasterCook, Now You're
Cooking, and Cook'n might be options. What are your thoughts?

I'm testing Bigoven right now, (BigOven.com ) and it will caclulate nutritional value. You have to
link the ingrediants in order for it to work, but it works ok for the most part. Big Oven is still
in a testing phase and you can download it for free.

I'm currently using Cook'n at home, and am finding that Big Oven is easier to use . Just my .02

Great! Can you add your own ingredients if it's not in their database? Do either have spellcheck?
Can you export the files (word, html, text, whatever)?

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jmk in NC

jmk said:

Quoted message said:

Great! Can you add your own ingredients if it's not in their database? Do either have spellcheck?
Can you export the files (word, html, text, whatever)?

I've not found anything that is not in the list for nutritional information, because it actually
links up the ingrediant information with the USDA nutritional information. No word on exporting in
html text or word, but you can email the recipes easily enough which does provide them in a text
format. I'd love to see them exportable in HTML as well. but no work on that yet.

Oh and if you've used Cook'n , it doesnt take 2 minutes to add each ingrediant to a recipe when you
enter it in Big Oven. (and it has this nifty screen import feature that you can basically cut and
past recipes and they will format ok) Deb

Thanks SeattleJo.

To answer the questions:

1) Yes, you can add new nutritional elements, beyond the 6,200 already in the USDA database

2) Yes, we'll be adding export to HTML shortly.

BigOven Try it free at www.bigoven.com
- The BigOven Team

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Quoted message said:

jmk said:

Quoted message said:

Great! Can you add your own ingredients if it's not in their database? Do either have
spellcheck? Can you export the files (word, html, text, whatever)?

I've not found anything that is not in the list for nutritional information, because it actually
links up the ingrediant information with the USDA nutritional information. No word on exporting in
html text or word, but you can email the recipes easily enough which does provide them in a text
format. I'd love to see them exportable in HTML as well. but no work on that yet.

Oh and if you've used Cook'n , it doesnt take 2 minutes to add each ingrediant to a recipe when
you enter it in Big Oven. (and it has this nifty screen import feature that you can basically cut
and past recipes and they will format ok) Deb

SeattleJo and others:

Just a note. We posted BigOven 1.0 last night and it includes Export to HTML, much more intuitive
lookups on the nutritional content, and many more new features. Post recipes to our servers, rate
recipes from others, get nutritional content from recipes, and a single, grouped shopping list for
multiple recipes.

Check it out for free at www.bigoven.com.

Happy cooking.

- Steve

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Quoted message said:

Thanks SeattleJo.

To answer the questions:

1) Yes, you can add new nutritional elements, beyond the 6,200 already in the USDA database

2) Yes, we'll be adding export to HTML shortly.

BigOven Try it free at www.bigoven.com
- The BigOven Team

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Seattlejo <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<U7WdnWGAhvoO37zdRVn-
[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

jmk said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Great! Can you add your own ingredients if it's not in their database? Do either have
spellcheck? Can you export the files (word, html, text, whatever)?

I've not found anything that is not in the list for nutritional information, because it actually
links up the ingrediant information with the USDA nutritional information. No word on exporting
in html text or word, but you can email the recipes easily enough which does provide them in a
text format. I'd love to see them exportable in HTML as well. but no work on that yet.

Oh and if you've used Cook'n , it doesnt take 2 minutes to add each ingrediant to a recipe when
you enter it in Big Oven. (and it has this nifty screen import feature that you can basically
cut and past recipes and they will format ok) Deb