Looking For Mothers Day Ideas - What About Recipe Software?

Does your Mother enjoy cooking? Is she a great cook or just learning how to cook? Either way, a great gift for her would be recipe software. She can use it to keep her own recipes organized, Have you ever seen her going through a stack of papers that have one recipe scribbled on each piece of paper looking for a specific recipe? She can also use the software to download recipes from the Internet that she finds interesting instead of printing each recipe out - there's another scrap of paper to keep track of.

Cookbook software has come a long way in the past few years. You can manage your recipe collection, plan meals, create grocery lists, and calculate the nutritional analysis for any recipe. I recommend The Living Cookbook recipe software for many reasons. This software is very easy to use and that is a very important feature for most people. You can format your cookbook to look just like a 'real' cookbook. You can make the print, or font, any size you want. No more reading glasses!

The Living Cookbook software has a 30 day free trial, so you could even download the software and "borrow" your Mothers recipes and make a family cookbook to give her for a Mothers Day gift. You could print the cookbook and take it to a local office supply store and have them laminate the front and back cover and spiral bind it for you for a reasonable price. This would be a really unique Mothers Day crafts project that you could do for her.

The software has a feature that lets you include a picture above each recipe. This could be a picture of the finished dish, or you could scan her original hand written recipe and use that instead. My Mother has passed on, and, believe me, it really is a great feeling to see her original hand writing above those cherished family recipes. We have done another one that includes recipes from my Mother, Grandmother and Aunt. It has recipes that were favorites at family reunions and we used their hand written recipes in the pictures. It really is beautiful. It would be hard to find a more personal gift.