Now You're Cooking!  Features

Convenient, Friendly Interface

• runs in Windows 11/10/8/7

• context-sensitive Help throughout

• quick-fill data entry 

• "Did you know?" tips 

• auto-updated droplists 

• user-defined external editor and browser

• toolbars for speed use

• safe and easy upgrade to new NYC versions 

• Windows Help (contents, search)

• zip/unzip/email cookbooks for backup or exchange 

• easy cut, copy-paste options

• web links for support and recipe downloads

• cooking glossary with user tips

• easy Backup of entire user folder (with compression)

• moveable user folder

• selective Restore of backed up files to user folder

• change screen font size

• numerous user preference settings

• NYC User Manual on Help menu

Recipe Management

• organized, customizable recipe interface

• recipe fullview and editview choices

• up to 500 user-defined categories per cookbook

• duplicate recipe checking across cookbooks

• unlimited number of cookbooks

• resize recipes by a multiplier or by #servings 

• automatic or manual recipe categorization

• automatic best units for resized ingredients

• tag and untag recipes for later operations

• defrag or reindex cookbooks and image archives 

• toggle US-SI, fractions-decimal conversions

• cookbook annotation

• edit, delete, email, print, export recipes from search results

• customizable find-replace text across cookbooks

• attach images to recipes in cookbooks 

• proper case recipe names across cookbooks

• customizable edit window layout

• customizable multi-rater, multi-criteria recipe rating

• spell checker (dictionaries in 14 languages)

• graphical analysis of recipe ratings

Finding Recipes

• fast, multi-criteria recipe search across cookbooks

• edit, delete, email, print, or export from search results

• find recipes that use ingredients on hand

• manual or automatic recipe categorization

• search within a limited range (category, recipes with images, etc)

• user-defined keywords for auto-categorization

• click 2 (or more) categories to find recipes assigned to both

• user-defined default categories for new cookbooks

• find and delete empty categories

• merge and delete categories across cookbooks

Importing and Exporting Recipes

• email recipes and cookbooks

• 158,000+ free, importable recipes on website

• robust import of MM, MC, generic formats

• 0.5 million free, importable recipes overall

• multi-file imports; each file can have mixed formats

• easily create a recipe website with images

• Quick Web Recipes for easy download/import

• customize Export-to-Web web pages

• easy Screen Import for recipes in any format

• export recipes in various formats to your text editor

• save un-imported recipes to a separate file

• export search results to other cookbooks

• publish NYC cookbooks to MS Word

• move selected recipes to other cookbooks

Meal Planning

• meal plan using multiple cookbooks

• handles breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks 

• multi-criteria search from meal plan

• add recipes or individual items to meal plan 

• quick view recipes from meal plan

• scale meal plan entries by a multiplier 

• maintain multiple menus

• automatic shopping list from menus

• pop-up calendar for date selections

• tag and untag recipes from the menu planner

• unlimited meal plan period

• easily swap menu days

• randomized auto-menu creation

Automatic Shopping List

• sums like items from meal plan recipes

• add miscellaneous items or delete items on hand 

• sums like items with different units (converts)

• append to or replace previous list 

• user-definable unit conversions 

• maintain multiple shopping lists simultaneously 

• auto-expansion of unit conversion combinations

• shopping list sorted by store aisle 

• multiple shopping lists

• merge shopping lists 

Cost Management

• shopping list cost comparison for up to 20 stores

• complete coupon manager 

• user-defined prices/aisles for up to 20 stores

• coupons sorted by item, brand, or expiration date 

• auto-add new ingredients to prices and aisles list 

• flag coupon list items with match in shopping list 

• flags low price and store for shopping list items

• import/export price lists to/from text files

Nutrition Analysis

• uses USDA nutrition database SR28

• 8789 food items in USDA database 

• raw, cooked, prepared, or commercial foods

• add, delete, replace user-defined nutrition items 

• nutrition analysis (recipes, meals, menus)

• includes proximates, vitamins, minerals 

• over 40 nutrition elements analysed, including trans fats

• %calories as carbohydrates:protein:fat

• analyze any recipe from any source

• customizable DietPoints calculations

• %Daily Values calculated using your calories/day

• add a recipe’s nutrition analysis as a nutrition item

• searchable nutrition database

• auto-link recipe ingredients using ingredient droplist

Fitness Tracking

• calculate body fat %, BMI, waist ratios, and more

• track body measurements for multiple users over time 

• calculate calories/day to gain, lose, maintain weight 

• calculate basal metabolic rate

Printed Outputs

With your choice of fonts, font sizes, orientation, margins, and printer, you can print:

• any or all recipes in various formats

• shopping list 

• recipe names by category

• shopping list by store aisle

• meal plan

• shopping list cost comparison at up to 20 stores 

• recipes in meal plan

• list of unit conversions 

• recipe categories

• list of coupons 

• recipe category assignments

• list of prices and aisles 

• cookbook recipes by category

• droplists 

• nutrition analyses

• recipes on index card sheets (various sizes)

• print-to-text file option

• mini-print preview for recipes

• fitness data

• nutrition link status for recipe ingredients