Shop'NCook Shopping List & Recipe Manager 3.1 - User Guide and FAQ

Detailed Features

• Create grocery lists in seconds by checking items, typing them in or adding from recipes and sublists.
• Customize the database of 2000 grocery items. Add new items and categories. Organize them according to the aisles of your supermarket. Edit nutritional and unit conversion information.
• Add ingredients from recipes to the grocery list in the units of measure of your choice.
• Itemize the ingredients of the grocery list per recipe or not, to fit your shopping style.
• Send the grocery lists by e-mail, or print them in different formats.

• Input easily your own recipes.
• Import recipes from files or clipboard. Available import formats: SCX, MM, MXP, MX2. Import also plain text recipes.
• Search the recipes by title, categories, and ingredients.
• Organize your recipes in cookbooks. Cookbooks are ideal for sharing collections of recipes as a single file. Shop'NCook cookbooks can be read by anybody with the free software Shop'NCook Cookbook Reader.
• Calculate nutritional analysis effortlessly.
• Download recipe archives directly from internet with the specialized browser tool. Have fun uncovering hundreds of thousands of recipes scattered in internet archives!
• Access the recipes of our online recipe database TheRecipeDatabase.com. Our Direct Access technology lets you search the recipes offline and fetch them with a click.
• Export recipes in HTML and other formats.

Frequently Asked Questions - Shop'NCook Shopping List & Recipe Manager

1. How to see all the items?
   Go to the Tools menu, and select "Extended List". If "Main List" is displayed in the menu instead of "Extended List", the item list is already in extended mode. Click on the category names in the column on the left to display the items belonging to this category.
   
   
2. How to see the main items?
   Go to the Tools menu, and select "Main List". If "Extended List" is displayed in the menu instead of "Main List", the item list is already in main mode. Click on the category names in the column on the left to display the main items belonging to this category.
   
   
3. How to compose a shopping list?
   Click on the checkboxes on the left of the items you want to include in your shopping list. When the checkbox is marked, the item is included. You can click again to unmark it. Once an item is checked, you can edit the comment field on the right to input the quantity or some other comment. To locate rapidly an item, you can use the search function (see below). Another way of including items in the shopping list is to add ingredients from a recipe or from a sublist. If you want to add to the shopping list an item not in the database, you can type it in one of the empty fields at the end of the list of items of the corresponding category, or of the category Miscellaneous at the end of the category list. If it is an item you purchase regularly, you should edit the item database and add it permanently.
   
   
4. How to preview, print and send by e-mail the shopping list?
   Once you have composed your shopping list, click on the preview button of the toolbar to view it. Click on the "OK" button to close the preview window. Press the print button of the toolbar to print it. You will be presented with a print dialog to select the paper format and the number of copies. You can customize the appearance of the preview and printed version of the shopping list in the preferences pane. To send the shopping list by e-mail, click on the send button of the toolbar. If it is the first time you use the e-mail option, you will be prompted to input first the e-mail parameters in the preferences pane, i.e. your SMTP server, e-mail address, and the default destination e-mail address and default subject, and a list of frequently used e-mail addresses. You can change subsequently these settings at any time by opening the preferences pane. You are then prompted to input the destination e-mail address and subject, and an accompagnying message. Click then on "Send" to send the shopping list.
   
   
5. How to view the shopping list on a PDA?
   Go to the preference pane by selecting "Preferences..." in the Edit menu on Windows or on the Shop'NCook menu on Mac OS X. In the general tab, click on the Browse button of the default data folder and select a folder on your PDA. Click OK to save the modifications to the preferences. After writing your shopping list, select "Export to HTML" in the File menu and input the filename you want (with extension .html) to save it to your PDA in HTML format. You will be able to view it with your browser.
   
   
6. How to change the appearance of the print-out?
   Open the preference pane by selecting Preferences... in the Edit menu on Windows or on the Shop'NCook menu on Mac OS X. Click on the Appearance tab. Set the fonts and sizes of the characters and select the character and background line colors. Click then on the Print tab. Set the margin sizes, the number of columns (one or two), and if you want the category names to be displayed. Also, you specify here the width of the item names. If you chose to print on two columns, this width should be reduced consequently to leave enough space for the comment field. You can change the title of the shopping list changing the database name. To do that, click on the Edit button of the toolbar, input a new name in the database name field, and click on OK to save the modifications.
   
   
7. How to search the item list?
   To search for an item in the item list, you must switch it first to extended mode, by selecting "Extended List" in the Tools menu. If "Main List" is displayed in the Tools menu, the list is already in extended mode. Input then the name of the item you want to locate in the search field of the toolbar (i.e. the field just to the right of "Find:"). Press then return, or click on the search button. The first item found will be highlighted. To find subsequent items, press again return, or click again on the search button. The search function knows both the singular and plural of the items in the database, as well as the most common orthographic variations and synonyms. It will find for example the item "ketchup" when you search for catsup. The search function searchs by default for whole words. You can use the wild card "*" to search for parts of words, where the star character is used to replace any group of characters. For example, search for "*berry" to find all the berries.
   
   
8. How to edit nutritional and unit information?
   Nutritional information and unit conversion information can be edited in the nutritional information editor of the item. To open the editor, locate the item in the shopping list panel. Click on the question mark next to it. A new window opens with the nutritional information and unit conversion tool. Click on its Edit button. The editor opens in a new window. You can here input the nutritional information and add new units and their gram weights to allow automatic unit conversion.

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