BigOven

I've recently switched over from a very old version of Master Cook.  One thing I miss about the Master cook is the ability to save meal plans (unless I've missed that somehow).   I like to make several weeks of meal plans and reuse them.  It would be nice if I could just save them and bring them up when needed instead of redoing it for specific dates.  It would also be nice if I could manually put in the nutrition information on items not currently on the list (which is currently quite limited.) There should be more ingredients in the list that don't need manually entered.  Even things as simple as fettucine and other pasta names aren't in there, I have to link to macaroni.  Also, the units are a bit cumbersome.  There should be standard can sizes. I have to admit that as nice as this program is, the features on my ancient Master Cook 2.0 served me better.  It just won't work on Vista!  I have hopes that you will continue to improve BigOven!

Thanks much.  We agree with all these suggestions -- to clarify, BigOven does work fine on Vista; (I think you were referring to MC). 

You can add new items to the nutritional database simply by clicking "Nutrients", then "New".  Enter the nutritional info, then link the ingredient line.  Once you link the ingredient the first time, it will be remembered on subsequent ingredient entries.

I would love to be able to save and swap meal plans with other users!  In the past, I've tried subscribing to weekly menu plans, but they are too cumbersome and time consuming to add and organize in Big Oven each week.

If lots of folks were sharing weekly meal plans, holiday menus or other special collections, I could just import them into my calendar and create my shopping list!  This would be a great time saver!

 I'm definitely in agreement there!  The idea of being able to import an entire meal plan would be great.  By clicking a few steps we could simply add not only the plan, but all of the recipes included.