Meals in minutes with homemade taste!
Product Information
Delicious and easy meals in minutes. Includes great microwave meals and more! Delicious recipes that can be prepared quickly with the food that you have onhand could never be found at dinnertime...until now. Cook'n Quick & Easyoffers the best tasting recipes to families on the go! There's no betterway to end the day than filling the house with the smells of a home-cooked meal.But if you're like thousands of families you may not even have the energy orthe time to do much more than flip a switch on the stove.
Enter Cook'n Quick & Easy. With just a little planning and the time savingease of Cook'n Quick & Easy hundreds of easy-to-make and mouth-wateringdishes are just a few keystrokes away. Easy-to-make recipes for homemadebreads and muffins steaming vegetables nutritious main dishes and scrumptiousdesserts are at your fingertips when you begin using the Cook'n Quick & EasyCD.
Haven't been able to go shopping this week? Cook'n Quick & Easycan work with what you already have to give you ideas for quick recipes withfive ingredients or less. Need a handy time-saver? Cook'n Quick & Easyhelps you plan and keep nutritious--and appetizing--freezer-ready dishes on handfor busy on-the-go families. Avoid the morning panic. Get the family offto the bus or carpool with quick & healthy breakfasts. Finally theCook'n Quick & Easy CD has recipes for tons of 10-minute meals creativesoups salads and sandwiches. Or dig into Cook'n's 30-minute main courses andmicrowave masterpieces.
Product FeaturesMenu Management Made Easy!
The Cook'n Software Engine is an easy-to-use program that makes organizingrecipes using your home computer a snap. Cook'n is five products in one:
Electronic Cookbook
- Search thousands of recipes in seconds
- View hundreds of full color photos
- Download recipes from internet
- Simply tell Cook'n what ingredients you have on hand and in seconds Cook'n will suggest several delicious recipes. Or use Cook'n's exclusive "Recipe Browser" feature and page through pictures of finished dishes to look for ideas.
- Download new recipes every week from this web site. You can also import recipes from other web sites or other cooking software.
- You can even download recipes from Cook'n to your Palm Handheld device for easy access in the kitchen!
Recipe Manager
- Add your own recipes
- Adjust recipe serving sizes
- Print recipes on 3x5 and 4x6 cards or on an 8.5x11 sheet
- E-mail recipes to friends
- Organizing your family recipe collection in the computer is easy with Cook'n. You already know how to put in your recipes that's because Cook'n's recipe window looks just like a recipe card. And "Quick-Fill" editing does much of the typing for you.
- Cook'n has simple cookbook-like chapters and categories that make it easy to find your recipes fast.
- Cook'n's Recipe Manager makes entertaining a snap. Simply select the number of guests you will be serving and enter it into your favorite recipe. Cook'n calculates the new ingredient amounts for you. No more of that measuring madness!
- Sharing recipes is easy. Print recipes on pre-formatted 3x5 or 4x6 cards or just have Cook'n e-mail recipes to a friend. Cook'n can also share recipes with the Palm Pilot.
Menu Planner
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Build your own weekly and monthly menus Drag and drop meals to make your menus Combine recipes and food items to make complete meals. Then drag and drop meals to make your own weekly or monthly menus.
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Menu planning instructions teach you how to cut prep time in half by using dove-tailing techniques when preparing your menus. Menu Planning has never been easier!
Grocery Shopping Assistant
- Compiles your family's shopping list automatically
- Organizes shopping list items by aisle
- Converts to package sizes (ie; tablespoon tomato paste to 8 oz. cans)
- Calculates your grocery cost
- Cook'n automatically combines the food on your menus and makes a grocery shopping list. It even converts tablespoons of tomato paste to 8 oz. cans! Cook'n organizes your shopping list by aisle to save you time at the store.
- Cook'n also calculates the approximate cost of your shopping list. You can even download your shopping list to a PalmPilot organizer for easy access in the store.
Personal Home Nutritionist
- Analyze the nutritional elements of recipes and menus (even the ones you add!)
- Choose between brands to satisfy dietary needs
- Cook'n will analyze the nutritional value of any recipe or menu (even the ones you add!). You don't have to be a nutritionist to understand it either -- that's because Cook'n nutrition facts window looks just like the label on a can.
- Cook'n has nutrition facts from the labels of 10000 food products. You can choose between different brands to see what the nutritional effect is. Stop the guesswork among different brands and know which one is most appropriate for your needs.
- Now you can plan menus based on dietary needs and tastes. Prepare one delicious meal for the entire family.
Windows Requirements
- Windows 95 98 Me 2000 NT or XP
- Pentium processor or better
- 8MB of RAM
- 10MB Hard Disk Space
- 2X CD-ROM Drive
