Meals in minutes with Home made taste!

Cook'n Quick & Easy - Delicious and Easy Meals in Minutes Product Description and Information :

Delicious and easy meals in minutes. Cook'n Quick & Easy - Delicious and Easy Meals in Minutes Includes great microwave meals and more!  Delicious recipes that can be prepared quickly with the food that you have on hand could never be found at dinnertime...until now. Cook'n Quick & Easy offers the best tasting recipes to families on the go!  There's no better way to end the day than filling the house with the smells of a Home -cooked meal. But, if you're like thousands of families, you may not even have the energy or the time to do much more than flip a switch on the stove.

Enter Cook'n Quick & Easy. With just a little planning and the time saving ease of Cook'n Quick & Easy, hundreds of easy-to-make and mouth-watering dishes are just a few keystrokes away.  Easy-to-make recipes for Home made breads and muffins, steaming vegetables, nutritious main dishes, and scrumptious desserts are at your fingertips when you begin using the Cook'n Quick & Easy CD. 

Haven't been able to go shopping this week? Cook'n Quick & Easy can work with what you already have to give you ideas for quick recipes with five ingredients or less.  Need a handy time-saver? Cook'n Quick & Easy helps you plan and keep nutritious--and ap pet computer/pc games izing--freezer-ready dishes on hand for busy, on-the-go families.  Avoid the morning panic. Get the family off to the bus or carpool with quick & healthy breakfasts.  Finally, the Cook'n Quick & Easy CD has recipes for tons of 10-minute meals, creative soups, salads, and sandwiches. Or dig into Cook'n's 30-minute main courses and microwave masterpieces.

Menu Management Made Easy!

The Cook'n Software Engine is an easy-to-use program that makes organizing recipes using your Home computer a snap. Cook'n is five Computer product s in one:

Electronic Cookbook and recipes

• Search thousands of recipes in seconds
• View hundreds of full color photos
• Download recipes from internet
• Simply tell Cook'n what ingredients you have on hand and in seconds, Cook'n will suggest several delicious recipes. Or, use Cook'n's exclusive "Recipe Browser software " feature and page through pictures of finished dishes to look for ideas.
• Download new recipes every week from this web site. You can also import recipes from other web sites or other cooking software .
• You can even download recipes from Cook'n to your Palm Handheld device for easy access in the kitchen!

Recipe Manager

• Add your own recipes
• Adjust recipe serving sizes
• Print recipes on 3x5 and 4x6 cards or on an 8.5x11 sheet
• E-mail recipes to friends
• Organizing your family recipe collection in the computer is easy with Cook'n. You already know how to put in your recipes, that's because Cook'n's recipe window looks just like a recipe card. And, "Quick-Fill" editing does much of the typing for you.
• Cook'n has simple cookbook-like chapters and categories that make it easy to find your recipes fast.
•  Cook'n's Recipe Manager makes entertaining a snap. Simply select the number of guests you will be serving and enter it into your favorite recipe. Cook'n calculates the new ingredient amounts for you. No more of that measuring madness!
• Sharing recipes is easy. Print recipes on pre-formatted 3x5 or 4x6 cards, or just have Cook'n e-mail recipes to a friend. Cook'n can also share recipes with the Palm Pilot.

Menu Planner  

• Build your own weekly and monthly menus Drag and drop meals to make your menus Combine recipes and food to make complete meals. Then, drag and drop meals to make your own weekly or monthly menus.

• Menu planning instructions teach you how to cut prep time in half by using dove-tailing techniques when preparing your menus. Menu Planning has never been easier!

Grocery Shopping Assistant

• Compiles your family's shopping list automatically
• Organizes shopping list by aisle
• Converts to package sizes (ie; tablespoon tomato paste to 8 oz. cans)
• Calculates your grocery cost
• Cook'n automatically combines the food on your menus and makes a grocery shopping list. It even converts tablespoons of tomato paste to 8 oz. cans! Cook'n organizes your shopping list by aisle to save you time at the store.
• Cook'n also calculates the approximate cost of your shopping list. You can even download your shopping list to a PalmPilot organizer for easy access in the store.

Personal Home Nutritionist

• Analyze the nutritional elements of recipes and menus (even the ones you add!)
• Choose between brands to satisfy dietary needs
• Cook'n will analyze the nutritional value of any recipe or menu (even the ones you add!). You don't have to be a nutritionist to understand it either -- that's because Cook'n nutrition facts window looks just like the label on a can.
• Cook'n has nutrition facts from the labels of 10,000 food Computer product s. You can choose between different brands to see what the nutritional effect is. Stop the guesswork among different brands and know which one is most appropriate for your needs.
• Now you can plan menus based on dietary needs and tastes. Prepare one delicious meal for the entire family.

Cook'n Quick & Easy - Delicious and Easy Meals in Minutes CD-ROM Software requirements

• Microsoft windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT, or XP
• Pentium Computer Processor or better
• 8MB of RAM
• 10MB Hard Disk Space
• 2X CD-ROM Drive