Davida Chazan - The Chocolate Lady wrote:
> Years ago on a visit to the US I bought a Borderbrund program called
> "Kitchen Gourmet" on CD for Windows 95. It cost practically nothing
> (maybe US$5) and it had everything I needed. You could put your own
> recipes in, you could add ingredients as you wished and best of all
> you could put in for your own ingredients the nutritional information
> (no problems with metric measures, either). With all that, you could
> figure out the total nutritional value for a serving of your own
> recipe. This proved to be especially useful when my daughter joined
> Weight Watchers and I began to put into the comments of each of my
> recipes the correct WW points per serving.
>
> Then disaster struck. My son did something on our computer and now
> the program won't work, and damned if I can find that old CD to try to
> re-install it. So, I'm thinking, perhaps I should try to download a
> new program. Thing is, for me, all these programs are pretty
> expensive and I was wondering if anyone knew of a free or inexpensive
> program that would meet these needs. Also, if there's a demo program
> that I can download for free that would work enough just to help me
> figure out those points for my daughter, that would be great - I don't
> need printing or exporting or importing of other recipes. Your help
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> (In the meanwhile, of course I'm going to write to Borderbrund to see
> if they can help me fix that problem.)
>
Check out Broderbund's site, for Web-based help:
http://support.broderbund.com/faq_list.asp?id=6
This person is selling new copies:
http://www.sellyouritem.com/ItemView...ItemID=1497170
And a "home" bundle, for 9 pounds Sterling...
http://www.target.zenwebhosting.com/...neral_188.html
But you probably won't beat Amazon's "New & Used" market:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...341178-5301505
Dave