Recipe Management
Copy recipes from the Internet
Import recipes from Meal-Master and MasterCook
Import recipes from Big Oven
Calculate recipe nutrition
Share recipes with other users
Export recipes as HTML
Scale recipes
Convert recipe units
Add photographs to recipes
Add photographs to recipe procedures
Add media (audio or video) to recipes
Organize recipes into folders and subfolders 1
Enter recipe reviews and ratings
Advanced recipe searches with "and" and  "or" 2
Share searches with other users 3
Flag recipes as favorite
E-mail recipes from within the software
Customizable recipe displays
View nutrition for each recipe ingredient 4
Calculate recipe costs
Automatically eliminate duplicate recipes 5
Recipe spell checker
Meal Planning
View daily, weekly and monthly meal plans 6
View meal and day total nutrition
Calculate meal costs
Share meal plans with other users 7
Move and copy meal items
Add an entire meal plan to a grocery list
Menu Management
Calculate menu nutrition
Share menus with other users
Calculate menu costs
Add images to menus
Ingredient Management
Create new ingredients
Add photographs to ingredients
Add any number custom measures to ingredients 8
Import USDA nutrition updates
Share ingredients with other users
Enter multiple prices for an ingredient
Cooking Reference
Searchable library of cooking techniques
Add photographs to cooking techniques
Add media (audio and video) to techniques
Searchable cooking glossary
Share reference information with other users
Shopping
Create an unlimited number of grocery lists
Create grocery lists from meals, menus or  recipes
Calculate grocery list cost
Group grocery lists by grocery aisles
Share store and ingredient pricing data with other users
Create grocery lists involving multiple stores
Inventory (Pantry)
Track what you have on hand
Determine what you can make with what you have on hand 9
Create a grocery list to restock inventory
Deduct on-hand items from grocery lists
Share inventory data with other users
Publishing
Publish cookbooks in Microsoft Word
Create user-defined publication templates
Print recipes on index cards
Tools
Unit converter tool
Backup application database
Compact application database
Database of cooking web sites
Built-in support for pen scanners
Help and Support
Illustrated online help
Searchable help with index
Animated training tutorials

1 Refers to the ability to organize recipes in a hierarchy. For example, you can create a cookbook chapter named "Main Dishes" and a subchapter named "Meat Main Dishes" and a sub-sub-chapter named "Beef Main Dishes", etc.

2 Refers to the ability to create complex searches with boolean operators (e.g. search for all recipes that have fewer than 200 calories or fewer than 75 calories from fat and have "chili" or "stew" in the recipe name).

3 Refers to the ability to save search criteria to a file and share that file with other users. For example, you might have a search named "Low Calorie Recipes" that searches for all recipes with fewer than 200 calories. You could save this search to a file and share it with other users. They could then search their database using the same criteria.

4 Refers to the ability to see the contribution of each recipe ingredient to the total recipe nutrition. For example, a recipe might have 600 calories. Living Cookbook can tell you that 150 calories came from one ingredient, 25 from the next, etc.

5 BigOven eliminates duplicate recipes during import, but can't eliminate duplicate recipes once they are in the database.

6 Refers to the ability to see day, week or month views of your meal plan (without having to print them first).

7 Refers to the ability to save all or part of a meal plan to a file and share it with another user such that they can view and edit the meal plan in their copy of software.

8 Refers to the ability to add an unlimited number of custom measures (units) to an ingredient. For example, you might want to add pound, kilogram, ounce, cup, pint, tablespoon, etc. as valid measures for an ingredient.

9 Refers to the ability to tell the software what you have in your kitchen and have the software list the recipe that you can make with the ingredients that you have. BigOven has a similar feature, but it is limited to three ingredients.