FRC: Are we fossils? Interesting article..

Excellent article, Mo. I just spent days packing up 2 bookcases full of cookbooks

and loose leaf binders with recipes. Even weeding through them trying to downsize (which amazing, I did), I found myself wanting to make this recipe, then that one. I'll never stop cooking. The closest I've come to shelf-type food is still fresh: a packaged salad from Walmart called Market-side "Lemon Kale Chopped Salad Kit".

We've probably eaten at least 15 of these since I found this particular one. I dump out the chopped veggies, wash with FIT ORGANIC vegetable wash, spin dry, then add the dressing, plate, then add the puffed quinoa (love that stuff!! How do they do that??) with sunflower seeds and dried cranberries, then the bread crumbs. If it's a lunch, I'll add lemon tuna. If dinner with a protein, it goes as is. If I have prepped kale, I'll had some of mine to their mix.

We tried a few other flavors, but didn't like their dressings as much. Now I just stick with this one.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Marketside-Lemon-Kale-Chopped-Salad-Kit-10-8-oz/750461444

 
Cheezz, is this one that you use and most important: do the ingredient amounts scan in correctly?

One of the reasons I've never used MasterCook software is the number of errors I've seen in scanned recipes online. Not sure if that is a function/issue with all software, but I'm hoping not to have to edit a lot.

 
I did the same thing, as we downsized

due to economic reasons, (I have been searching for a job for over a year, plenty of phone interviews, then the in-person where they discover I'm not 40....game over. smileys/frown.gif

Anyway, I digress. I sold a lot of my cookbooks, and tossed hundreds of printed out recipes, and still managed to have 2 bins I couldn't part with.

PS--That salad sounds great, our Walmart doesn't carry it--bummer!

 
Love Paprika. I have it on my Mac, iPad and iPhone and it syncs all three

I used Mastercook for years but I like the way I can download recipes from all websites just by using "Save Recipe".

 
My sis uses it. She uses the 'clippings' feature almost exclusively which grabs web recipes

From the MacGourmet people (Mariner Software) is this answer:

Q: Is there any way to scan in recipes and import them into MacGourmet?

A: MacGourmet doesn’t have the ability to scan files built into it, but most scanners come with a software bundle that includes something called OCR software. This allows you to scan documents and translate the text in the scan to text you can use. You have to use an external application for this because, well, OCR is significantly more complex than MacGourmet itself. Because of this, scanning is not built into the product.

Once you’ve scanned and used OCR to convert the scan to text, it’s just a matter of opening the text in a text editing app that supports Mac OS X services, like TextEdit, and then using MacGourmet’s web import assistant to clip and import each recipe.

 
So I have to rescind my recommendation...

MacGourmet was sold to another company which has made it less user friendly. It will not allow you to save or print to PDF, or to use it without allowing cookies. The only export feature is to their own format which can't be opened by another program.

They have also locked the recipes so you can never transfer or import to another recipe software program.

 
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