the second phase » Food http://www.phase2.net confessions of a geek Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:11:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Recipe software cookoff! http://www.phase2.net/2008/04/26/recipe-software/ http://www.phase2.net/2008/04/26/recipe-software/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:17:51 +0000 steve http://www.phase2.net/?p=199 I’ve always loved to cook. Unfortunately, I’m one of those people who only likes to cook with really fresh ingredients and I only end up cooking about once a month. That results in me buying alot of ingredients over and over and over, which costs me money, which makes me cook less. A vicious downward spiral.

However, I still like to collect recipes in hopes that one day I’ll have my gourmet kitchen and all the utensils and equipment for cooking that I’ll ever need. In the meantime, I have the need to really start categorizing and storing these recipes that I’ve been collecting. I went searching today for OSX software that was developed to do just that and I was surprised when I found out how many packages there are out there for recipe organization.

They all have different features and all are quite cheap, weighing in at about 25$ or so. As a ‘woot!’ bonus, they all have free downloads to try ‘em out, so I figured I’d do just that. After they run out, I’ll see which one I like the most and buy it.

So here’s the competitors for Haji’s Recipe Software Cookoff!

I’ll be reviewing them based on these features:

  1. Interface
  2. iPod/iPhone export
  3. Website recipe import
  4. Shopping lists
  5. Search capabilities
  6. Printing Options
  7. Website Export
  8. Fullscreen view for cooking
  9. Nutritional values
  10. Meal planning
  11. Price

As an added bonus to my quest for recipe goodness, I came upon three other little gems: BarGenieMac, Netflix Freak and BeerAlchemy.

I’ll post my reviews up in a few weeks.

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I’ve created a page on the side bar ( over there –> ) that lists the foods that I will try and purchase in order to eat healthy ( Thanks 23 for the big chunk of it ). I’m trying to drop a few pounds and the first thing to attack is my diet. I started at 185 lbs about 2 weeks ago and I’m down to 180 now, only 25 more to go!
steve

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