About our Cooking Software

Do you have a kitchen drawer stuffed with recipe clippings? Do you want to break out a "same-old" cooking rut? Do you have family recipes that you'd like to organize a little better?

BigOven cooking software helps you...

Find all the recipes you can make from whatever you have on-hand
Organize your recipe collection
Create grocery lists, not just from recipes but from any item you want... and sort them by aisle
Find recipes you may have loved in a restaurant... simply by entering a few of the ingredients
Create meal plans
Print out recipe cards, meal plans and shopping lists
Create an online personal chef page that keeps track of your favorite recipes... No more wondering what to make tonight!
Organize and post recipe photos
Keep track of ratings and keywords for recipes -- e.g., find spicy Chinese chicken dishes, or Summertime Easy Grilling recipes, in seconds!

Take a quick screen-by-screen guided tour of BigOven for Windows and see how much more you can do!

BigOven for Windows is complete, integrated cooking software for Windows. With it, you can post new recipes to your personal chef page. You can import any recipes you like from the shared archive with a single click of the mouse to your own local recipe box, mark it up with your own private tags (e.g., "Sam likes", "Spicy", etc.) and build up your own customized favorite collections. You can capture recipes easily from web pages and import them into the program. You can quickly resize recipes, analyze their nutritional content, create shopping lists and much more.

See how much more you can do with BigOven for Windows by trying it free today!

	BigOven.com (this recipe site)	Starter Edition (PC)	Deluxe Edition (PC)
Browse 150,000+ recipes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Enter your own recipes, photos, tags and notes	--	Yes (1,000 max)	Yes (Unlimited)
Recipe "power-search": combine various tags, ingredient(s), cuisine and more to find just what you want, quickly	--	Yes	Yes
Personal Chef Page keeps track of recipes you've rated	Yes	Yes	Yes
Advertising-free recipe display	--	Yes	Yes
Post your own recipes to your chef page and BigOven.com	--	Yes	Yes
Create shopping lists with drag & drop	--	Yes	Yes
Resize / rescale recipes & convert to metric	--	Yes	Yes
Publish to PDA (Windows Mobile / Palm)	--	Yes	Yes
Create meal calendars with drag & drop	--	Yes	Yes
Create recipe boxes to organize recipes	--	No	Yes
Get calories, carbs, nutrition facts	--	Yes	Yes
Print recipe cards	--	Yes	Yes
Software needed	Web Browser	BigOven for Windows	BigOven for Windows
Price	FREE	$9.95	$29.95 (try it free!)

With BigOven for Windows, you can create shopping lists, meal plans, get calories, carbohydrates, post new recipes online... and much more! It's completely free to try for 30 days, with no obligation to buy. The Starter Edition is just $9.95 (up to 1,000 recipes), or you can get the Deluxe Edition (unlimited recipes) for just $29.95!

Do you do the family grocery shopping, and want a quicker way to generate grocery lists that save you time in the store?
Are you a recipe collector?
Do you want to watch what you eat?
Do you want to post new recipes to the web so you can access them again at any time, from any web browser?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, Download BigOven for Windows and do more with your recipes!

Organize your favorite recipes in one convenient place

BigOven for Windows is designed to make recipe entry easy . It's the ultimate recipe organizer, the perfect place to keep all your favorites, whether you find them on the Internet, or the clippings drawer in your kitchen, or your family favorites... or among the 150,000+ we have already waiting for you on BigOven.com.

We've designed it to make it easier to make grocery lists from recipes. Get nutrition facts for those recipes. Mark them up with unlimited keywords. And much more.

With BigOven for Windows, you can index them with any keywords you'd like -- such as "Jim Likes", "Spicy", "Holiday", "Quick", and more -- then quickly find all the right recipes when you need a memory-jogger or are pressed for time.

Post new recipes... get ratings and tips from others... and always have them close-at-hand from any web browser!

BigOven for Windows users can post any recipes they want to the shared archive and get permanent web addresses (URLs) to those recipes... and several very easy ways to find that recipe again! For example, if you post your favorite dozen recipes to BigOven, you can access them while on vacation, or over at friend's house, or at a potluck when you want to review, or share, that recipe. You can even access them at the grocery store, if you've got a web-enabled mobile device.

Always have your favorite recipe collection close at hand!

Create shopping lists and meal plans by dragging and dropping recipe cards

Are you planning to serve steak, Caesar Salad and a fruit dessert tonight? Simply size the recipes the way you want (e.g., 3 servings, 4 servings, etc.) and drag and drop the recipe cards you choose onto your BigOven for Windows shopping list, and BigOven will create a combined list for you. Go from "What shall I make?" to a sorted shopping list in seconds!

If you've already got some items on-hand, you BigOven will let you simply cross them off as you add the recipe to the shopping list. Better still, the shopping list is grouped by grocery aisle, eliminating frustrating back-tracks through the store.

Get inspired -- add new variety to your menu !

Do you find yourself making a great recipe, only to lose it later? Do you find yourself making the same limited number of meals over and over again? Do you want to permanently expand your repertoire? Recipe software is a perfect way to get organized.

Eat better

Ever wonder how many calories are in your favorite lasagna recipe? BigOven can tell you. It ships with a complete USDA nutritional database of over 6,000 basic ingredients. It can quickly and easily calculate calorie, fat, carbohydrate, fiber, sodium, and other nutritional information for any recipe you enter.

Save time and hassle. Plan out your cooking in advance

You can make a plan for any date in the future, see past meals you've made, and generate a shopping list for any set of dates. Simply drag and drop recipes onto a meal calendar.

Never again struggle with "What shall we make tonight?"

Get suggestions from people around the world. Browse through recent recipe raves and photos, and search your past favorites in an instant.

There's much more! You can resize recipes up or down, print recipe cards, store pictures with recipes and more... but don't take our word for it. Try it free for 30-days!

How about your shopping list? Do you find your daily or weekly process of pulling together the week's menu and grocery list for your household a chore? And when you do get your shopping list together, do you sometimes find yourself back-tracking through the store, or scanning your list dozens of times, because it's not grouped by aisle? Or forgetting to write down ingredients that the recipes call for?

BigOven for Windows is free to try;
just $9.95 or $29.95 to buy.

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