- Enter recipes with as much or as little detail as you like.
- Add images to recipes. In fact you can add multiple recipe images, a source image and an image for every recipe procedure step, if you want to.
- Scan images directly from your flatbed scanner or digital camera.
- Copy recipes from the Internet.
- Calculate recipe nutrition from the recipe ingredients or enter the nutrition data manually.
- Calculate recipe costs.
- Share recipes with others, even if they don't own Living Cookbook. You can export or e-mail recipes in all of the major recipe file formats.
- Import recipes from MasterCook, Big Oven, Cook'n, Meal-Master and other recipe management programs.
- Add ratings and reviews to recipes.
- Add audio or video files to recipes.
- Add file attachments (any file type) to recipes.
- Assign recipe types and categories.
- Enter the recipe's oven temperature in either Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- Choose from five degrees of difficulty.
- Use a recipe as an ingredient in another recipe.
- Enter preparation time, cooking time, inactive time and total time.
- Organize recipes into cookbooks, chapters, sub-chapters, etc. according to your needs.
- Customize recipe displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
- Add any number of tips to a recipe to record recipe variations, serving suggestions, wine pairings, etc.
- Enter author, source, web page, copyright and author notes for any recipe.
- Print your recipes on any paper format: US letter, legal, A4, 4x6 index card, 3x5 index card and more.
- Scale recipes to any number of servings.
- Convert recipe units to and from Imperial or metric units.
- Eliminate duplicate recipes automatically.
- Compare any two recipes side-by-side.
- Enter custom recipe data (i.e. user-defined recipe attributes). Living Cookbook 2024 lets you customize 5 text columns, 5 numeric columns and 5 link (URL or e-mail) columns.
- Use a Facebook-like news feed to share recipes, images, links and images with your friends.
- Share entire cookbooks with friends for viewing or editing.
- Control permissions (create, read, update, delete, move, copy, print and export) or each shared cookbook.
- Synchronize data across mutliple instances of Living Cookbook.
- Publish your cookbooks with tables of contents and indexes.
- Print your publication from within Living Cookbook or export it as a Microsoft Word document.
- Format your publication using your choice of fonts, colors, spacing and layouts.
- Choose from over 8000 ingredients with nutrition data provided by the USDA.
- Enter your own custom ingredients or copy them from the Internet.
- Import new USDA nutrition as it is made available by the USDA. Living Cookbook 2024 ship with version SR-22 (the most current version of the nutrient database).
- Add ingredient images and source images.
- Add file attachments (any file type) to ingredients.
- Add any number of custom measures (units) for each ingredient.
- Assign costs, grocery aisles and preferred stores to ingredients.
- Enter ingredient nodes to describe the ingredient, record uses and preparation information, etc.
- Share ingredients with other Living Cookbook users.
- Organize ingredients into folders and sub-folders.
- Customize ingredient displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
- Eliminate duplicate ingredients automatically.
- Compare any two ingredients side-by-side.
- Copy ingredients from the Internet.
- Enter custom ingredient data (i.e. user-defined recipe attributes). Living Cookbook 2024 lets you customize 5 text columns, 5 numeric columns and 5 link (URL or e-mail) columns.
- Create your own menus using any combination of recipes, ingredient, headings and text.
- Add menu images and source images.
- Calculate menu nutrition from the menu items or enter the nutrition data manually.
- Calculate menu costs.
- Share menus with other Living Cookbook users.
- Add audio or video files to menus.
- Add file attachments (any file type) to menus.
- Assign menu types and categories.
- Organize menus into folders and sub-folders.
- Customize menu displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
- Add any number of tips to a menu to record menu variations, serving suggestions, wine pairings, etc.
- Enter author, source, web page, copyright and author notes for any menu.
- Scale menus to any number of servings.
- Eliminate duplicate menus automatically.
- Compare any two menus side-by-side.
- Enter custom menu data (i.e. user-defined recipe attributes). Living Cookbook 2024 lets you customize 5 text columns, 5 numeric columns and 5 link (URL or e-mail) columns.
- Add recipes, ingredients, menus, headings and text to meals.
- Choose from nine different meals each day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, brunch, snacks, nightcap, etc.)
- Add meal headings to organize meals into courses (e.g. Appetizer, Main Course, Dessert, etc.)
- Use drag and drop or copy and paste to add ingredient, recipes or menus to a meal.
- Use drag and drop or copy and paste to move or copy a range of days, a single day, a meal or individual meal items.
- Calculate nutrition for meals, days or a user-defined range of days.
- Calculate meal and day costs.
- Share meal data with other Living Cookbook users.
- Customize calendar displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
- View nutrition and cost summary information for a day or a range of dates.
- View meal calendar in month, week or day mode.
- Add recipe, ingredients, menus or meals grocery lists or enter the grocery list items manually.
- Create a grocery list for multiple stores.
- Calculate grocery list costs and subtotal by store.
- Automatically organize the grocery list by aisles.
- Customize grocery aisles by store, including grocery aisle order.
- Customize grocery list displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
- Share grocery lists with other Living Cookbook users.
- Create a grocery list to restock inventory.
- Create a grocery list for a range of meal plan dates.
- Automatically combine like grocery list items (e.g. "1 cup milk" and "1 pint milk" will be combined automatically to read "1 1/2 pints milk".
- Compare any two grocery lists side-by-side.
- Add file attachments (any file type) to grocery lists.
- Manage your kitchen inventory.
- Control the ordering properties of any inventory item (minimum order quantity, order at level, order up to level, etc.).
- Share inventory data with other Living Cookbook users.
- Customize inventory displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
- Create a printable inventory worksheet to help you take stock of your kitchen.
- Compare any two inventory items side-by-side.
- Enter your own glossary items or copy them from the Internet.
- Add glossary item images and source images.
- Add file attachments (any file type) to glossary items.
- Share glossary data with other Living Cookbook users.
- Customize glossary displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
- Eliminate duplicate glossary items automatically.
- Compare any two glossary items side-by-side.
- Enter your own techniques or copy them from the Internet.
- Add an image to each technique step.
- Add audio or video files to techniques.
- Add file attachments (any file type) to techniques.
- Share techniques with other Living Cookbook users.
- Customize technique displays using your choice of fonts, background colors, headings and more.
- Eliminate duplicate techniques automatically.
- Compare any two techniques side-by-side.
- Browse the Internet with Living Cookbook's built-in web browser.
- Save references to web pages you like in Living Cookbook's database.
- Share saved web pages with other Living Cookbook users.
- View RSS feeds with Living Cookbook's built-in RSS feed aggregator.
- Save RSS feeds in Living Cookbook's database.
- Share RSS feeds with other Living Cookbook users.
- Backup your Living Cookbook database.
- Configure Living Cookbook to backup your database every time you close the application or Living Cookbook can prompt you to backup periodically (you choose how often).
- Verify the integrity of a backup file before restoring it.
- Restore Living Cookbook backup files from any version of Living Cookbook.
- Compact the Living Cookbook database to shrink it to its smallest possible size.
- Search, filter and saved searches
- Choose from basic or advanced search modes to find the recipes, ingredients, meals and other data you need.
- Save advanced searches in your database for future use.
- Drag one or more saved searches onto Living Cookbook's filter bar to filter all search results.
- Use Living Cookbook's search and replace feature to replace text anywhere in the database.
- Use copy and paste to duplicate recipes, ingredients, meals, and more.
- Use drag and drop to move or copy recipe, ingredients, meals, etc.
- Use Living Cookbook's undo and redo to undo almost any action.
- Browse Living Cookbook's comprehensive help file with more than 480 indexed and searchable help topics.
- Use Living Cookbook's unique Kitchen Calculator tool to convert between units.
- Flag recipes, ingredient, etc. using one of six color flags.
- New users can use Living Cookbook's Launchpad feature to help them see all of the actions that can be performed on the selected item.
- Check the spelling of recipes, ingredient, meals, glossary items and techniques. Choose either standard or as-you-type (wavy red line under misspelled words) spell-checking.
- Use the Back and Forward toolbar buttons to back and forth to recently viewed items.
- Use Living Cookbook's built-in database repair tools to fix any potential database problems.
- Copy and paste or drag and drop recipes to other applications that accept plain text from the Windows clipboard (e.g. drag a a recipe to an e-mail).
- Open multiple recipe workspaces at the same time.
- Create links to your favorite or most-viewed recipes, ingredients and other data.
- Customize and print any list (e.g. recipe lists, ingredient lists, etc.).
- Print multiple recipes, ingredient, etc. at once.
- Export to any list to Excel.