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Macgourmet Deluxe
Autor Air
- Build, print, and share your own cookbook from your recipe collectionLI>Publish your favorite recipes online to your own blog
- Use the Mealplan feature to plan and organize meals
- Sync your plans with iCal
- Easily calculate the nutritional content of your recipes
- Build, print, and share your own cookbook
Product DescriptionEasily create, build and share your recipe collection. Make notes about your favorite wines; plan meals for a day or a week and then sync to iCal. Get the nutritional values of foods, recipes and individual servings by accessing the USDA database included in MacGourmet Deluxe. Print out shopping lists or export them to your PDA. Find recipes online and add them to your collection using MacGourmet’s intuitive features. Publish recipes to your blog or . mac account. . . . More >>
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March 27, 2010 -
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I used MasterCook for years until it no longer would run on Mac’s OS. So I got MacGourmet because everyone said it was as good as MasterCook. Well, it is not. It’s cumbersome and doesn’t do anything as well as MasterCook. If you have never used MasterCook you may not be disappointed with MacGourmet because you won’t realize what a truly good recipe software program is like. Very disappointed. I’m only giving it one star because there is no way to give it No Stars.
Rating: 1 / 5
This was a Christmas present for my son,—and he was exceedingly pleased with the product. Thank You.
Rating: 4 / 5
One of my goals for this stage of my life is to put together all the family recipes and make a digital cookbook for each of my 3 children. This program is excellent for that purpose. I also collect many recipes from emails and websites and now I can put them directly into the program instead of killing trees by printing them out. I also have an iPhone that has “an app for that”. . . MacGourmet so the recipe is always with me so if I am in the supermarket, I can look at the needed ingredients and don’t end up at home with an ingredient missing. This program does all that I want it to do. Thanks MacGourmet!!
Rating: 5 / 5
I received this software yesterday and began playing with it right out of the box. I had a question about downloading recipes from websites, so I contacted the support email address with my question and received a response with the correct fix within 7 MINUTES! I was very impressed. I am still getting my feet wet with the software but it seems to do everything claimed in the description. Mapping the nutrition info is a little time consuming but I expected that. Overall I am very excited with the product.
Rating: 4 / 5
I haven’t found anything good to say about this program yet. First, there weren’t any installation instructions in the box, on the box or on the screen when I inserted the disk. I installed it incorrectly and it would only run off of the disk. So, I had to email Mariner Software for help, and wait 2 days for the instructions to be emailed back. Once I got it installed correctly, I found that entering my own recipes were easy, but getting the nutritional info was a chore. It didn’t recognize common ingredients like “strawberry jam” and “oatmeal”. I had to hunt through a list of items to find the closest match. But once I found the right items, the nutritional info didn’t match the nutritional labels for the brands I use. You can add your own items to the list, and but it won’t let you input the vitamin and mineral info like the preinstalled items have. The main reason I bought this program is for the nutritional calculator, but if it’s incorrect, then all it’s good for is a recipe box. There’s a 30 day money back guarantee printed on the box, and I’m seriously considering returning it.
Update: I decided to give this program a 2nd chance before sending it back. I tried inputting my own nutritional info for some brands I use. I started with whole grain brown rice and I input everything exactly as it is on the nutritional label. But for some reason every time I tried using this item in a recipe, it tripled the calories even though the recipe was for one serving. I experimented with several other ingredients and the same thing happened again and again. I just wanted a simple program that I could use to input my recipes and let it calculate the nutrition so I wouldn’t have to tally it up myself. But apparently you need to be a genius to get this program to do it.
Rating: 1 / 5