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Impressive Application

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Having been forced by health issues to watch the nutritional value of the food I eat, I am already finding that this product makes that job a whole lot easier. There is a lifetime supply of new recipes to try included with the program, but the biggest advantage to me is the breakdown of sodium, fat, cholesterol, sugar and other nutrients included with each recipe and the program's ability to extrapolate this information from recipes I enter myself.

In a household of two, there isn't much need to make a recipe that serves 50, but with MasterCook's ability to scale a recipe, a smaller version of the recipe can be prepared with ease, allowing the recipes to be used in suitable proportions. This product is worth far more than I paid for it!

Wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There is more to MasterCook than just recipes. I started using MC to create weekly mealplans. I was amazed when I found out that I could set up a listing of everything in my pantry or fridge in a list and the program would subtract everthing that I already had from my shopping list. It also does nutritional analysis. All I can say is WOW!

Very few pictures!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 47
Date: January 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It has a lot of recipes, just very few pictures of them!

mastercook deluxe 8.0

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a horrible program,it is not user friendly. For a recipe program pictures are very helpful. Whoever thought picture weren't necessary for a recipe was an idiot. I wish I had known this before purchasing this product. Waste of time and money

Not great software

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have had both the 7.0 and 8.0 versions of this software, and was duly unimpressed with both. It is loaded with LOUSY recipes, the search function is awkward, the software runs slowly, backups are unreliable and, the thing that irritated me most, the nutritional analysis of recipes was always WAY off. Either it didn't recognize half the ingredients in the recipe or it was just plain old unable to calculate the values. I thought that perhaps the 8.0 version would have worked out the bugs from 7.0, but I was wrong. I just purchased Cook'n software and so far it appears to be far superior.

bad software

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: July 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this software after doing much research and it worked fine for the first couple of times I opened it. On the 3rd time using the software, the program would not save lists (and deleted all the information I've put in) and started to get error pop-up windows. I've uninstalled the software and reinstalled it and had the same problem. I've contacted the manufacturing company and their opinion is that the computer has a problem. This seems to be the usual answer, when they don't know what the problem is. This software is aweful and will cause a lot of frustration.

MasterCook Deluxe 8.0

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: August 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Excellent upgraded software from Sierra. The new feature attraction enables you to download ANY recipe from the Internet. What a time saver......love it!

Good enough

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been using MasterCook since version 4. I love the ability to get recipes from the internet. And I like the added field for the URL source. Other than that not much has changed from version 6. The search function is still clunky. And I still don't like the recipe display window where you have to scroll down to see ingredients and instructions, not very useful when am cooking and reading from the screen. It should look more like the print preview screen.

Mastercook is the King of the Kitchen

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: August 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I started with MC 4.0 and didn't care for it..the interface was too clunky.

I picked up MC 6.0 and really liked it and ValuSoft took it over and has impressed me with each release by fixing some bugs and adding new features such as PDA support in version 7 and with 8.0 we get the Web Import Bar that makes gathering recipes revolutionary.

Unfortunately, ValuSoft seems to have gotten a bad rap in the reviews I've read, but each new release is quite an improvement.

This is great recipe, nutrition and meal planning software. For $20, you can't beat the value of this power-packed software.

Great Program/ Not complete Package

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: August 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The program is wonderful but it took me much longer than I though it would to learn. It would have been helpful if I had known this CD was not a package and would not include any sort of instruction booklet. I would have spent the extra money to get the CD and guide book all at once if I knew I wasn't going to get even a 1 page basic guide.

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