ShopNCook Menu - Meal Planning Software 3.4.3

You love to cook. . . you just don' t like all the administrative hassle that' s involved! Editing and formatting the recipes you download. . . matching your menus to your grocery lists. . . and then figuring out how your favorite entree stacks up against your diet! Sometimes you think you need a full-time organizer just to keep track of it all.

Well, congratulations - you' ve found your organizer! Shop' NCook Menu is your kitchen manager in a box - ready to handle all the administrivia so that you can get back to creating culinary magic!

With Shop' NCook Menu, the Internet is your cookbook. Grow your personal recipe collection by typing, pasting or dragging & dropping whole recipes directly from the internet. . . no tedious editing or formatting. Plan your meal by dropping recipes on the calendar for as many menus per day and as many days in advance as you want. You start with a built-in, customizable ingredient database offering 2000 grocery items with nutritional data for more than 40 nutrients. You can add new ingredients and categories for your family' s dietary needs or restrictions, and organize them according to your supermarket aisles. The Shop' NCook wizard automatically interprets your recipes, adds the ingredients of your meal plans to your grocery list with a single click, and gives you an accurate nutritional analysis seamlessly.

Best of all, Shop' NCook can travel with you. You can organize your favorite recipes in cookbooks and share them with your friends using the free Reader software. Export your recipes and shopping lists in HTML or SplashShopper formats to your PDA, send them to friends by email, or share them with other users in an online database.

Forget the frustration of organizing - cooking is fun again!
Shop' NCook Menu Simplifies Meal Planning
Rufenacht Innovative has released Shop' NCook Menu 3. 4 for Windows and Mac OS X, a powerful meal planning application that saves time and money. Shop' NCook Menu flexible design makes it a breeze to plan meals and shop for ingredients.
Unlike other recipe and shopping software, Shop' NCook Menu' s technology understands meal planning. It does not force you to format recipes into a rigid structure, but understands them in the format that you use. It does not limit you to one week of planning or one menu per day, but lets you organize as many menus as you need for your family or your business. It does not require tedious work to set up a list of grocery items, but already includes a database of more than 2000 articles. It does not ask you to pick the grocery items you need for each recipe, but figures them out by itself. And it makes practical, aisle-ordered shopping lists from your menu list, with package sizes and units you actually find in the supermarket.
Behind the friendly interface, advanced technology is at work to make the user experience as smooth as possible: real language-like parsing to understand the recipes, recognize the ingredients and interpret the quantities, matching of the ingredients with the database of grocery items, sorting the shopping from the preparation instructions to make accurate grocery lists, scaling of the ingredient quantities and conversion to shopping units.
With Shop' NCook Menu, planning a month of meals takes a matter of minutes. You paste a new recipe to add to the recipe organizer. You drag your recipes onto the calendar and organize them in menus if you wish. The recipes are automatically scaled to the number of servings of each menu. When you are happy with your planning, you can print the menus for the desired number of days as well as all the corresponding recipes, properly scaled. You then add the ingredients you need to the shopping list with a click of the mouse. The shopping list will either aggregates the quantities for all the recipes or itemizes them per recipe, depending on your shopping preferences.
Shop' NCook Menu also computes the nutritional analysis of your individual menus, helping you fulfill your nutritional goals.
Other noteworthy features of Shop' NCook Menu are a menu library to save your favorite menus, the possibility to combine recipes, and the capability to import recipe archives directly from the Internet making it easy to create collections of recipes.