Recipe Software: 10 Minutes to Recipe Software Shop'NCook

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Do you love to discover new recipes on the internet, but don't know how to organize them? This video presents the recipe software Shop'NCook that proposes an easy way to organize your recipes from all sources, as well as incorporate them in your meal plans and shopping lists effortlessly.
With little more effort than copy & paste and a few clicks, you get an accurate nutritional analysis, cost analysis, a meal plan and a corresponding shopping list.
Here is what the video covers:
- How to add a recipe
- How to link ingredients to the database of grocery items or add new ingredients
- How to import nutritional information from the USDA database
- How to analyze the nutritional content of a recipe and a menu.
- How to cost out a recipe and a menu. This is only covered superficially, an in-depth video will follow.
- How to create a meal plan for several days
- How to make a shopping list from your recipes or from your meal plan
- How to send the shopping list to the Direct Access database to access it from Shop'NCook Lite app on the iPhone.
Download Shop'NCook now for a free trial at http://www.shopncook.com/downloads.ht...

This video can be watched at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjxTq4...

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Closed Caption:

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>>MATHILDE: Hello. I’m going to show you
in this video how easy it is to add a recipe
from the internet to Shop'NCook recipe software.
First, let’s look for a recipe. Click here
on this button.
It opens a window with links to many recipe
resources.
Let’s take the first one: All Recipes.
Okay, easy dinner... Let’s see what they
have for easy dinner.
Simple turkey chili. That sounds perfect.
Here is the recipe.
Now, you can select it with the mouse, and
here is a trick.
It’s easier, I don’t know why, to select
a recipe in a browser from the bottom rather
than from the top.
Copy it to the clipboard, and if I go back
to the recipe software, I can add the recipe
by clicking on the "Clip" the button.
Here is the recipe.
Now when you copy a recipe from the internet,
it’s bound to have a lot of junk information.
All this we really don’t need.
Also, here, preparation times. The time is
on the next lines. Shop’NCook tends not
to like it so much.
It’s better to put this all on the same
line.
[pause]
There. Now that the recipe has been cleaned,
we can just import it.
[pause]
You can select your cookbook, for example,
you can create a new cookbook for recipes,
but let’s just add it to the main cookbook.
And here is the recipe.
Now you can see that Shop’NCook has automatically
recognized the ingredients of the recipe.
They’re here, formatted differently in the
middle.
And, oh, one more thing.
We can also add a picture of the recipe here.
Just drag and drop it here.
I have to add, this doesn’t work for every
browser.
This is Safari browser. I think it works also
for Firefox, but unfortunately not for Internet
Explorer.
So if you cannot drag and drop your picture,
well, it has to do with the browser you are
using.
Here, if you display the shopping items that
you have the ingredient ready to be added
to your shopping list.
Now you see that the ingredient here in red.
It’s because the software has recognized
that that they are ingredients, but it just
doesn’t know them.
So we can fix the ingredient by clicking on
the magic wand button.
Now, you don’t have to do it. You can perfectly
use the recipe just like this.
But if you want a very clean shopping list
with all of the ingredients sorted by aisle,
you have to fix these ingredients.
When you click on the magic wand here, it
shows you a selection of ingredients from
which you can pick to find something similar
to "canned crushed tomatoes".
The software comes with a database of over
2000 ingredients. It knows already a lot.
Here, there’s "tomato canned", that is very
similar to "canned crushed tomatoes", which
we’ll just say is the same for demonstration
purposes.
The software asks now if we want always to
map “canned crushed tomatoes” to “tomatoes
canned”.
So I select yes, so that next time there is
"canned crushed tomatoes", we won’t have
to do this procedure again.
Now there is "canned kidney beans" again.
The software doesn’t know it, so we can
click here, and look what it has to propose.
[pause]
Okay, here there is "canned beans", "bean
canned", "black bean", "green bean", "pinto
bean".
There is "dried kidney beans", but it’s
the canned type that we want, so we can just
add it to the database by clicking on this
button.
Here, in the canned food category and let’s
add it just after those beans here.
Okay. So now all of the ingredients are black.
[pause]
I’m going to show you rapidly here the nutrition
tab that gives you the nutritional breakdown
by ingredient.
It has a lot of nutrients, calories, protein,
fat, carbohydrate...
There are only a few here that are displayed,
but the software knows more than 40 nutrients
and you can select which one you want to see
displayed in the preferences.
Now, canned kidney beans is green, meaning
that the software doesn’t know its nutritional
analysis, which is normal since we have just
added it to the database.
But we can easily fix it by clicking on the
magic wand button.
That opens the nutritional information editor
for canned kidney beans.
Now, if you happen to know the nutritional
analysis, you can type it here.
But there is an easier way.
You can click on the Import button.
The software has access to the USDA nutrient
database and you can find in it an appropriate
nutritional analysis for “beans, kidney,
all types”. This is exactly what we want.
You import it.
And we can now save the nutritional analysis
and the nutritional information for canned
kidney beans.
And you see that now it has been included
in the nutritional analysis for the recipe.
If you display the recipe, now you have an
accurate nutritional analysis at the bottom
of the recipe per serving.
I show you also the Costing tab.
This Costing tab is only here on the Pro Edition
of Shop'NCook.
It gives you the cost breakdown per ingredient,
the total food cost, and suggests a selling
price per serving.
Now, some ingredients here are in green.
Similarly to the nutritional analysis, it’s
because the software doesn’t know the cost
of these ingredients.
You can fix them by clicking on the magic
wand button and input a cost value.
[pause]
Okay, now what can we do with this recipe?
We could directly add its ingredients to the
shopping list to make a shopping list, or
we can make a meal plan.
For example, if we want to cook it tonight,
we can just here click "Add To Menu" and you
can see that it is added to the calendar here.
To make things more interesting, let’s also
plan the meal for tomorrow. Let’s see. Here
are a few recipes that come with the software.
They are mostly for illustration purpose.
Here in the Browse Collection, you can also
download a lot of free cookbooks if you want
to add to your collection of recipes.
Here is "baked chicken and potatoes". Let’s
add it to here, and for Sunday, another chicken
menu.
Chicken and rice casserole. Okay. There.
To see the menu we have just done, we display
the Menu manager and select the number of
days. Here we want three days of menu.
And shopping items, you get list of ingredients
for all of these recipes.
You have also here the nutritional breakdown
per menu. You can also see the details per
recipe.. per ingredient...
and the same thing for the costing: costing
per recipe, costing per ingredient...
Here, by clicking on the "Add To Shopping
List" button, you can just make a shopping
list with all these ingredients.
And here is the shopping list.
It is organized by aisle and the quantities
for all the recipes have been aggregated.
This shopping list is just ready to be printed
out and you can take it with you to the supermarket
or ...better, you can click on this button
to upload it to the Direct Access Database
and from there, you can download it to your
iPhone.
[pause]
Here is the shopping list, and here you have
the details of the ingredients.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this demonstration.
Have fun with Shop'NCook recipe software.