Working with recipes

• Enter recipes with as much or as little detail as you like.
• Add images to recipes. In fact you can add a main recipe image, a source image and an image for every recipe procedure step, if you want to.
• Copy recipes from the Internet.
• Calculate recipe nutrition from the recipe ingredients or enter the nutrition data manually.
• Calculate recipe costs.
• Share recipes with others, even if they don't own Living Cookbook. You can export, e-mail or import recipes in all of the major recipe file formats.
• Add ratings and reviews to recipes.
• Add audio or video files to recipes.
• Assign recipe types and categories.
• Enter the recipe's oven temperature in either Celsius or Fahrenheit.
• Choose from five degrees of difficulty.
• Use a recipe as an ingredient in another recipe.
• Enter preparation time, cooking time, inactive time and total time.
• Organize recipes into cookbooks, chapters, sub-chapters, etc. according to your needs.
• Customize recipe displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
• Add any number of tips to a recipe to record recipe variations, serving suggestions, wine pairings, etc.
• Enter author, source, web page, copyright and author notes for any recipe.
• Print your recipes on any paper format: US letter, legal, A4, 4x6 index card, 3x5 index card and more.
• Scale recipes to any number of servings.
• Convert recipe units to and from Imperial or metric units.
• Eliminate duplicate recipes automatically.
• Compare any two recipes side-by-side.

Publishing

• Publish your cookbooks with tables of contents and indexes.
• Print your publication from within Living Cookbook or export it as a Microsoft Word document.
• Format your publication using your choice of fonts, colors, spacing and layouts.

Working with ingredients

• Choose from over 7000 ingredients with nutrition data provided by the USDA.
• Enter your own custom ingredients or copy them from the Internet.
• Import new USDA nutrition as it is made available by the USDA.
• Add ingredient images and source images.
• Add any number of custom measures (units) for each ingredient.
• Assign costs, grocery aisles and preferred stores to ingredients.
• Enter ingredient nodes to describe the ingredient, record uses and preparation information, etc.
• Share ingredients with other Living Cookbook users.
• Organize ingredients into folders and sub-folders.
• Customize ingredient displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
• Eliminate duplicate ingredients automatically.
• Compare any two ingredients side-by-side.
• Copy ingredients from the Internet.

Working with menus

• Create your own menus using any combination of recipes, ingredient, headings and text.
• Add menu images and source images.
• Calculate menu nutrition from the menu items or enter the nutrition data manually.
• Calculate menu costs.
• Share menus with other Living Cookbook users.
• Add audio or video files to menus.
• Assign menu types and categories.
• Organize menus into folders and sub-folders.
• Customize menu displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
• Add any number of tips to a menu to record menu variations, serving suggestions, wine pairings, etc.
• Enter author, source, web page, copyright and author notes for any menu.
• Eliminate duplicate menus automatically.
• Compare any two menus side-by-side.

Working with meals

• Add recipes, ingredients, menus, headings and text to meals.
• Choose from nine different meals each day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, brunch, snacks, nightcap, etc.)
• Add meal headings to organize meals into courses (e.g. Appetizer, Main Course, Dessert, etc.)
• Use drag and drop or copy and paste to add ingredient, recipes or menus to a meal.
• Use drag and drop or copy and paste to move or copy a range of days, a single day, a meal or individual meal items.
• Calculate nutrition for meals, days or a user-defined range of days.
• Calculate meal and day costs.
• Share meal data with other Living Cookbook users.
• Customize calendar displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
• View nutrition and cost summary information for a day or a range of dates.
• View meal calendar in month, week or day mode.

Working with grocery lists

• Add recipe, ingredients, menus or meals grocery lists or enter the grocery list items manually.
• Create a grocery list for multiple stores.
• Calculate grocery list costs and subtotal by store.
• Automatically organize the grocery list by aisles.
• Customize grocery aisles by store, including grocery aisle order.
• Customize grocery list displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
• Share grocery lists with other Living Cookbook users.
• Create a grocery list to restock inventory.
• Create a grocery list for a range of meal plan dates.
• Automatically combine like grocery list items (e.g. "1 cup milk" and "1 pint milk" will be combined automatically to read "1 1/2 pints milk".
• Compare any two grocery lists side-by-side.

Working with inventory

• Manage your kitchen inventory.
• Control the ordering properties of any inventory item (minimum order quantity, order at level, order up to level, etc.).
• Share inventory data with other Living Cookbook users.
• Customize inventory displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
• Create a printable inventory worksheet to help you take stock of your kitchen.
• Compare any two inventory items side-by-side.

Working with glossary items

• Enter your own glossary items or copy them from the Internet.
• Add glossary item images and source images.
• Share glossary data with other Living Cookbook users.
• Customize glossary displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
• Eliminate duplicate glossary items automatically.
• Compare any two glossary items side-by-side.

Working with techniques

• Enter your own techniques or copy them from the Internet.
• Add an image to each technique step.
• Share techniques with other Living Cookbook users.
• Customize technique displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
• Eliminate duplicate techniques automatically.
• Compare any two techniques side-by-side.

Working with the Internet

• Browse the Internet with Living Cookbook's built-in web browser.
• Save references to web pages you like in Living Cookbook's database.
• Share saved web pages with other Living Cookbook users.

Working with RSS feeds

• View RSS feeds with Living Cookbook's built-in RSS feed aggregator.
• Save RSS feeds in Living Cookbook's database.
• Share RSS feeds with other Living Cookbook users.

Other features

• Backup your Living Cookbook database.
• Configure Living Cookbook to backup your database every time you close the application or Living Cookbook can prompt you to backup periodically (you choose how often).
• Verify the integrity of a backup file before restoring it.
• Restore Living Cookbook backup files from any version of Living Cookbook.
• Compact the Living Cookbook database to shrink it to its smallest possible size.
• Search, filter and saved searches
• Choose from basic or advanced search modes to find the recipes, ingredients, meals and other data you need.
• Save advanced searches in your database for future use.
• Drag one or more saved searches onto Living Cookbook's filter bar to filter all search results.
• Use Living Cookbook's search and replace feature to replace text anywhere in the database.
• Use copy and paste to duplicate recipes, ingredients, meals, and more.
• Use drag and drop to move or copy recipe, ingredients, meals, etc.
• Use Living Cookbook's undo and redo to undo almost any action.
• Browse Living Cookbook's comprehensive help file with more than 480 indexed and searchable help topics.
• Use Living Cookbook's unique Kitchen Calculator tool to convert between units.
• Flag recipes, ingredient, etc. using one of six color flags.
• New users can use Living Cookbook's Launchpad feature to help them see all of the actions that can be performed on the selected item.
• Check the spelling of recipes, ingredient, meals, glossary items and techniques. Choose either standard or as-you-type (wavy red line under misspelled words) spell-checking.
• Use the Back and Forward toolbar buttons to back and forth to recently viewed items.
• Use Living Cookbook's built-in database repair tools to fix any potential database problems.
• Copy and paste or drag and drop recipes to other applications that accept plain text from the Windows clipboard (e.g. drag a a recipe to an e-mail).
• Open multiple recipe workspaces at the same time.
• Create links to your favorite or most-viewed recipes, ingredients and other data.
• Customize and print any list (e.g. recipe lists, ingredient lists, etc.).
• Print multiple recipes, ingredient, etc. at once.
• Export to any list to Excel.