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January 2008 18

Mini-Review: Recipe Manager / Shopping List Generator: CookingAction 2005

Arca CookingAction 2005

This is a Recipe, Meal, Grocery List Management app. It has three main interfaces:
1. Grocery List
2. Recipes
3. Calendar

Grocery List
The Grocery List app allows one to create ingredients, organize them into categories (such as supermarket aisle) and add them to your shopping list. Categories can be multi-hierarchical. IMO, It's very intuitive.

To find an ingredient, just Ctrl+F and type a string. F3 to iterate the search to the next match.
To add an ingredient to the shopping list, just double click it. To remove one from the shopping list, just double click it when it's in the shopping list.
To move an item from one category/aisle to another, just drag it to the new category.
The region on the top is where you display, change, and select grocery list items from your products database . Here are the products listed that belong to the category that is selected in the left region.
The region on the bottom is where you display, and change the products of your current grocery list .
The region on the left is where you display, change, and select stores and categories . If you select a category, it's products are listed in the top region.
Each region has it's own context menu (right mouse click on the region). The same functions are accessible through the normal menus above the tool bar. The menu items are sometimes grayed out if they are not accessible at the current state of the program. If you move the mouse cursor over the tool bar buttons and hold it there, a hint tells you what each button does.

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