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Shop’NCook has been selected as member of the month of the educational software cooperative! Isn’t it great? Anyway, have a look at ESC  – you’ll find great educational software there.

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Update July 11, 2009: The issue is now fixed on the US versions of Shop’NCook Home, Menu and Pro. I will update the international versions and Shop’NCook Reader in a few days – meanwhile use the workaround below. ————— Java for Mac OS X 10.5 can cause Shop’NCook to crash. I am working on it…

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Like usual, I opened my to-do list this morning… and found that for the first time in months, I had reached the bottom of my list. Before starting on my next big project, I thought I would work on a few stuffs that have been waiting for a while because of lack of time. The…

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A number of users of the free nutrition facts labeling tool have asked me how to save the created panels. If you would like to incorporate the nutrition facts panel to another document, the best way is probably to print it to pdf format. You can then open the file in Acrobat Reader or another…

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Update 01-03-2013: For a more up-to-date tutorial, see the new post on how to add nutritional data to an ingredient from the USDA nutrient database for standard reference. Shop’NCook software comes with about 2000 grocery items, most of them with nutritional data. It is sufficient for many purposes, but does not cover everything. Occasionally, you…

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I have added support for the optional vitamins and minerals in the free nutritional facts labeling tool. In order to add an optional vitamin or mineral, select first the checkbox “Include optional vitamins or minerals” to display the list of optional vitamins and minerals, then select the checkboxes next to the nutrients you want to…

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I went yesterday to a barbecue organized by the parents of my eldest daughter’s class and brought a plum tart to share – a traditional Swiss summer pie. About half of it had been eaten when my husband sprayed generously the remaining slices with unsweetened whipped cream. The whipped cream matches well the bitterness of…

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Combining recipes is a powerful feature of Shop’NCook software that makes it easy to reuse recipes by combining them with other recipes, like recipes for sauce or dough that may be common to several preparations. Combining recipes makes it easier to manage your collection, as you only have to make changes in one place to…

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Shop’NCook Pro 3.4 lets you estimate the cost of your recipes in a mostly automatic way, but you may need to some adjustments to get an accurate costing. I will show you how in this post. Update Jan. 2013: Watch the new tutorial video “How to cost a recipe” and download the companion tutorial. Update…

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Trans fat has been added to the free online nutrition facts panel tool, to comply to FDA amendment to section 101.9(c), requiring that trans fat content is added to the nutrition facts panel below the saturated fat. More info…