Macgourmet Deluxe

Easily 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. Even use your family recipes to create your own high-res PDF or professional-looking, bound cookbook!

Features

• 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

User Reviews

really disappointing that I paid this much for software and I it has a glitch. Keeps asking to enter the product key every time I open, despite entering in the past. Really had hopes foe this on the 21" i Mac right next to the kitchen. I haven't called CS yet and hopefully they can help with this glitch. -- keeps asking for the code to use the non-trial version

I have been using the trial version after switching from PC to Mac. On PC I used Living Cookbook and was very happy. I also looked at Big Oven and it too looked great. Neither are available for Mac. One key use of this is for nutritional analysis and Macgourmet does NOT analyse. It has the database, but does not divide units. So, if I make a cake using 1/2 cup of sugar, it calculates that as 1 cup of sugar, because that is what is in the database. This is not evident until you start looking into some dubious nutritional data that comes up with your recipes.

The rest of the program seems fine, but I would not recommend the nutritional software and I would certainly not consider or recommend buying it as an 'extra'. -- Nutritional analysis doesn't really analyse

I tried out MacGourmet Deluxe (MGD) along with ShopNCook Menu (SNCM), Sous Chef (SC) and Yummy Soup (YS).

All of them are fine programs and MGD, SC and YS are a pleasure to use. SNCM, while highly functional, is really the Mac version of a Windows program and if you're seeking the Mac "look and feel" and some of the advantages of the Mac OS, you won't find them there.

MGD has a number of features the other two do not, including nutritional analysis, meal planning integrated into iCal, the incorporation of some very useful cooking references into the Help files, cookbook assembly and publishing and an elegant file import process.

It's not that the competing programs are "bad," they're certainly not. It's just that MGD is better. -- The best of the bunch

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!! -- Family Cookbook

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. -- Very pleased...