Customer Reviews:
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 comprehensive and user friendly March 26, 2006
Nicole Riby (Portland, OR USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Good all around program for recipe mamagement. Extensive data base of specific ingredients and nutritional analysis. Fun and easy to use, great interactive help and online user forum. Easy to navigate importing/exporting and lots of design possibilities for printing/publishing. Still some limitations with PDA sync.
 Dubious Origins -- January 10, 2007
Christina Wiegand (South Jersey)
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
I already had the Best of MasterCook version 5.0 and assumed that by version 9 there might be enhancements to gain by upgrading. WRONG! Granted the publisher changed, but I absolutely no benefit to upgrading. As a matter of fact I suspect the product was a knock-off as the CD cover was printed in black and white and looked shoddy. What a shame. Version 5.0 was absolutely great and I would have loved to be able to share that now unavailable product with friends.
Love the shopping list feature July 16, 2007
Mear (Wyandotte, MI USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I mainly purchased this to input my own recipes and create shopping lists. Now I have cut my shopping time in HALF. Yes, what used to take an hour, now only takes 30 minutes. I shop every 2 weeks for my staples, and shop every 1 or 2 days to pick up what I need for dinner. So I got very organized with MasterCook. I have one big list for my staples, one big list for the every day stuff like milk, bread, snacks. Then I make little lists for my dinner recipes. Before I go shopping I just merge the lists together for one master print out. Also, (and this is kind of geeky) I was able to edit the ingredients database and change the store location to match the grocery store layout where I shop. Now my lists print out in the exact order that the store is laid out, with the aisle numbers printed. Did you ever go shopping and get to aisle 12 and realize you forgot an item on aisle 3? I used to do that several times each trip. I also wasted time searching down wrong aisles for things. Now my list is so organized I never forget things, and that's why I've cut my shopping time in half. Since I have to drag a toddler with me to the store, I'm grateful to be able to zip through the aisles so quickly. In conclusion I would have rated this a 5 on usefulness of the shopping feature, but it was a little complicated to learn the features so I give it 4. Aside: I am familiar with working with databases so I just played around with the features until I got it. (I didn't read the manual, which might have helped.) It might be hard to learn for someone unfamilar with a database-type program. I can't comment on the usefulness of the manual since I never opened it.
Web Icon August 21, 2006
Linda J. Coleman (Virginia)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Web Icon (for direct import from the internet) is worth the price of the software
 MasterCook Results November 10, 2006
Raymond Becker (Rochester NY USA)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
First I really love the idea behind the program.
They were several items that were not on the basic menu such as eggs, splenda, spenda blend etc, so a lot of addtional work was needed to
revise recipes.
But I still love the program as I am a bariatric surgey person and
it made my life easier when making recipes.
Thanks
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