I need recipe software that doesn`t suck!
Can you help me find recipe and shopping list software that doesn`t suck?
I know there have been questions about this before, but the two leading contenders from last question, LivingCookbook and Now You`re Cooking, both fail in several of these categories. LC is closest, but sucks in many ridiculous ways.
I need three main things: An easy method of manually entering recipes and linking ingredients to USDA nutritional info.The ability to made a shopping list from a collection of recipes.The ability to write a meal plan using those recipes.I rarely use recipes from a book or website, and if I do, I usually modify them beyond all recognition. In order to easily enter my own recipes, the program must be aware of every english and metric measurement that exists and be able to convert among them. It must intelligently parse entries such as "1 bell pepper", by offering options which map onto USDA ingredients, rather than making me type in peppers, sweet, red, raw, whole.Then when I go to generate a shopping list, it should combine ingredients across recipes and convert ingredients originally entered using different units into the same unit, and round those up to the nearest whole unit of purchase, such as a jar or bottle .Finally, it should know that if I go shopping on Sunday, and have roast beef and flounder on monday and tuesday, to add the items shopped for to my inventory and to subtract them as as the week passes.
I don`t care about downloading or screen-scraping recipes, importing stuff, or the ability to store pretty pictures. I just want something that doesn`t make data entry laborious and shopping list generation cumbersome.
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