Cook'n Vegetarian

There are hundreds of vegetarian recipes tucked away inside--soups, entrees, desserts, and more--and a simple system for adding new ones. Colorful photos illustrate the recipes and will motivate more than one shopping trip; a convenient utility will tally what's needed automatically and print lists organized by grocery aisle and price. Users interested in keeping track of their nutritional intake will also find it easy to score calories, fat, cholesterol, and other variables and adjust accordingly. The menu planner uses an intuitive drag-and-drop menu to add healthy dishes and complete meals to weekly or monthly lists; integrated with the shopping and nutritional utilities, this makes long-term health and budget planning a breeze.

Cooks who want to keep their computers away from pots of boiling water can print individual recipes on 3-by-5 cards for kitchen reference. Though a little less glamorous without the pictures, they're sure to save money on hardware maintenance. Those leery of using software to help in the kitchen would do well to invest a little money and time in Cook'n Vegetarian--the easy improvements in health maintenance, budgeting, and efficiency should convince anyone that information wants to be fat-free. --Rob Lightner

Amazon.com Product Description
Featuring recipes for tasty and healthful meatless dishes made with fresh ingredients, the Cook'n Vegetarian CD also includes a selection of almost-instant recipes with preparation times of 30 minutes or less. Many of the Cook'n Vegetarian CD's recipes use less fats, sugars, and salts, and bring out the natural nutritional properties in everyday foods. Recipe selection is made simple: type in what ingredients you have on hand, and search for recipes utilizing those ingredients.

Other features include:

• Hundreds of full-color food photos
• Organize your own recipes
• E-mail recipes to your friends
• Print your recipes on decorative 3-by-5 cards
• Create weekly menus
• Make grocery shopping lists
• Search the Internet for coupons
• Analyze the nutritional value of your recipes
• Download recipes and shopping lists to your Palm Pilot

I'm not very computer literate but this CD was a snap to use. I just popped it in my CD drive and away I went. I highly recommend it.


I love this software   August 12, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Cook'n for Vegetarians comes with tons of Vegetarian recipes that are delicious, and such a variety. The software is perfect for entering your own recipes. And for those of us who are watching our weight too, you can enter your own nutritional information for any lite ingredient and the software will automatically compute the recipe's nutritional value for you. Also, I host parties for my family often and it's so easy to change the number of people you'd like to serve and the program automatically changes the ingredient amounts for you! I've added more recipe cookbook titles to my collection since and loved them all. You can download the cookbooks once you have the software from [local website]. I give it 5 stars!


From Cheryl in Michigan   February 23, 2006
C. Pantano (Traverse City, MI)
I love this program. It is easy to enter the recipes and simple to use. The only thing I did not like is that you could not spell check your added recipes. It also comes with many good recipes.