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AccuChef is a full-featured recipe organizer that starts you out with a collection of recipes and lets you add as many as you want (thousands available for free from our web site, millions available on the Internet).

AccuChef is recipe software that is so easy you can use it without reading the help file (but it's there if you need it). This recipe software uses two main screens, the browser and the editor (the top two screens to the right, click on them for a larger view). While browsing through your recipes just press the Enter key to view or edit it. Want to insert a new recipe? Press the Insert key. Intuitive yet powerful recipe software is here!

AccuChef recipe software allows you to collect, exchange and organize your recipes and much more. You can use this recipe software to input your own creations or collect recipes from all over the internet, emails and user's groups. Use our Import Wizard to import recipes from any web page! AccuChef recipe software also allows you to print out cookbooks (with a table of contents, headers, footers, page numbers and pictures), create web pages and print out your shopping list in store aisle order.

Key features of AccuChef:

• Nutritional analyzer (analyze your recipes using the USDA 16-1 database of over 6,300 items)

• Recipe costing per serving or for the whole recipe

• Print out double sided cookbooks with a table of contents, headers & footers

• Design your own customized printouts

• Spell checker with a customizable dictionary (default dictionary is English, optional dictionaries available in Afrikaans, Aussie, Brazilian Portuguese, British, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish)

• NETWORKABLE! Allows multiple workstations to simultaneously share the same cookbook file over a network (one license per workstation required)

• IMPORT WIZARD makes it simple to import recipes from your favorite web site

• Over 150 recipes included (thousands available, or input your own)

• Each cookbook file can contain over 2,000,000,000 (that's billion) recipes and you can have an unlimited number of cookbook files

• Create customized web pages of your recipes (see example)
  Huge glossary of cooking terms

• Autoguess will guess at what you're typing, reducing input time.
  IMPORTS: Meal-Master, AccuChef, MasterCook and text files
  EXPORTS: Meal-Master, AccuChef, MasterCook and text files

• Menu planner

• Export shopping lists to your pocket PC using VOShoppingList

• Export recipes in text file format and copy them to your PDA (Windows CE or Palm)

• Runs on all Windows 32 bit operating systems (95 through XP)

• Resize your recipes to any number of servings

• Shopping lists in store aisle order

• Type in the ingredients you have and AccuChef will suggest recipes you can make

• Built in PKZIP/WINZIP compatible compression engine (not just called like others)

• EMAIL recipes directly from AccuChef

• Support for Avery 3x5 (5388) and 4x6 (5389) index cards (will optionally print cut lines so you can use the regular 8 1/2 x 11 card stock and cut them into index cards)

• Attach pictures to your recipe (print them too) and/or sound files

• Built in coupon database

• Supports gallons and number 10 sized cans, great for institutional cooking

• Supports (and converts between) Metric and US measurement systems

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