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Summary: Bogus Reviews!
Review: I was somewhat reluctant to try this considering the mediocre review that I read about it. I'm glad I gave it a shot because it is FANTASTIC! I found Cook'n to be most delightful!In my opinion, the shopping list is just fine. It lists all of the ingredients (corn, beans, etc.) and some additional brand information that I just disregard. It combined every occurence of butter, salt, sugar, etc. in my recipes. The menu planning feature is more powerful than the other software products I've seen. It let's you combine recipes and food items to make a menu for one day, one week, one month, two months...etc. It's very flexible. I can see my whole menu at a glance. I came to expect all of those features but what I didn't expect was the ability to download my shopping list to my Palm Pilot! Wow! It gave me an estimate of the total cost for my shopping trip. It organized my shopping list by aisle to make it easy to shop. It analyzed the nutritional value of my menu based on the nutritional information right off the label of the can! Unbelievable! To my surprise, the package included a top of the line OXO cheese grater, a pack of 30 decorative 3x5 recipe cards, and a magnetic recipe card holder. Not to mention 3 CD's with delicious recipes already installed. Video clips, full-color photos,...the ability to enter my own recipes, adjust serving sizes, e-mail recipes to friends, download recipes to my Palm Pilot, etc. etc. I'm SOOO glad I got Cook'n. I highly recommend it. It's a great value and, in my opinion, the best out there.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I was somewhat reluctant to try this considering the mediocre review that I read about it. I'm glad I gave it a shot because it is FANTASTIC! I found Cook'n to be most delightful! In my opinion, the shopping list is just fine. It lists all of the ingredients (corn, beans, etc.) and some additional brand information that I just disregard. It combined every occurence of butter, salt, sugar, etc. in my recipes. The menu planning feature is more powerful than the other software products I've seen. It let's you combine recipes and food items to make a menu for one day, one week, one month, two months...etc. It's very flexible. I can see my whole menu at a glance. I came to expect all of those features but what I didn't expect was the ability to download my shopping list to my Palm Pilot! Wow! It gave me an estimate of the total cost for my shopping trip. It organized my shopping list by aisle to make it easy to shop. It analyzed the nutritional value of my menu based on the nutritional information right off the label of the can! Unbelievable! To my surprise, the package included a top of the line OXO cheese grater, a pack of 30 decorative 3x5 recipe cards, and a magnetic recipe card holder. Not to mention 3 CD's with delicious recipes already installed. Video clips, full-color photos,...the ability to enter my own recipes, adjust serving sizes, e-mail recipes to friends, download recipes to my Palm Pilot, etc. etc. I'm SOOO glad I got Cook'n. I highly recommend it. It's a great value and, in my opinion, the best out there.
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Summary: A love/hate relationship to this product
Review: Sometimes I like this product and sometimes it really makes me frustrated. I don't like the idea that you can't save recipes that you enter onto hard disk. Other than that I really don't have too much of a problem with this program. I mostly use it to enter my own recipes. We had major computer problems and because my recipes were not saved to hard disk i lost all of them. It was very upsetting. Now I have to re-enter everything and again I am faced with the dilemma of not being able to save them on disk. I am thinking of buying Master Cook and using that instead.
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Summary: This is a Love/Hate Relationship
Review: Sometimes I really LIKE this program and other times I'm really FRUSTRATED with it and wish I'd bought something else! It took me more than a few hours to even udertand how to use it as it has no users guide. Once I did learn it seems pretty easy. The recipes are OKAY, I guess, I've mostly added my own and used them. My biggest complaints are that 1.)You can't print out a concise, organized shopping list -- only one that is pages long with suggestions on where I should shop and what brands to buy (instead of it saying Corn it says Libby's Corn or whatever). 2.)It doesn't combine amounts of like items (it'll say 8 oz. cream cheese then further down the list 3 oz. cream cheese then perhaps 4 more oz. later in list -- why can't it just total up the amount needed and list 15 oz. cream cheese?) 3.The menu plan does not print in a calendar form look AND 4.) instead of it showing each item we're having for dinner it lists the name of a "meal". If I don't remember what is included in that "meal" I have to insert the CD and boot up the program to find out, which is really annoying and a time waster! I'm thinking of selling it on Ebay and buying Master Cook.
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Summary: This is a Love/Hate Relationship
Review: Sometimes I really LIKE this program and other times I'm really FRUSTRATED with it and wish I'd bought something else! It took me more than a few hours to even udertand how to use it as it has no users guide. Once I did learn it seems pretty easy. The recipes are OKAY, I guess, I've mostly added my own and used them. My biggest complaints are that 1.)You can't print out a concise, organized shopping list -- only one that is pages long with suggestions on where I should shop and what brands to buy (instead of it saying Corn it says Libby's Corn or whatever). 2.)It doesn't combine amounts of like items (it'll say 8 oz. cream cheese then further down the list 3 oz. cream cheese then perhaps 4 more oz. later in list -- why can't it just total up the amount needed and list 15 oz. cream cheese?) 3.The menu plan does not print in a calendar form look AND 4.) instead of it showing each item we're having for dinner it lists the name of a "meal". If I don't remember what is included in that "meal" I have to insert the CD and boot up the program to find out, which is really annoying and a time waster! I'm thinking of selling it on Ebay and buying Master Cook.
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Summary: Bogus Reviews!
Review: This is a great product...so good that I think the competitors are writing bogus reviews. Two of the reviews here start with "Sometimes I like this product and sometimes it really makes me frustrated." They say one positive thing (to make it sound legitimate) and then spend the rest of the time criticizing the product. The truth is, it's a great piece of software...and it's difficult to compete with a quality product valued at[sold price].
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