Hi Michelle-
I'm sure you will hear as many different methods for organization as
there are people who have the software :-) I deleted almost all of the
meat recipes (some sounded like they would be good with some non-meat
item) and many of the other recipes as they just didn't look good. I'm
very discriminating when it comes to recipes! I just didn't want all
the extra junk. What I did is things with items that I obviously didn't
want, I selected all the recipes and deleted them in one big chunk.
Then, believe it or not...I think I was bored on a trip home or
something, I went through all the recipes 1 by 1 to determine if I
wanted them or not. I probably deleted around 80% of them.
I left the organization as is for the recipes that came with it. I
created my own cookbooks based on lists (Fat Free, Low Fat, Chile Heads,
etc) and I have a Misc cookbook where I enter any recipes from cookbooks
or magazines that I've tried. I also have a cookbook for Mom's recipes.
I try to keep the categories broad which means when you import stuff
from the web you usually have a lot of categories to change. For
instance, I have a bread category. I've seen others who have categories
like bread-machine, bread-fruit, bread-yeast, bread-nowheat,
bread-sweet, bread-holiday etc. This is just a bit too much for me,
YMMV. I do have a "holiday" and "party" category that I use for
anything I specifically like to do for holidays or that I think is good
enough to serve to guests. I also have a "tried" category for anything
I've made before. I did split up ethnic into stuff like mexican,
italian, japanese, indian, etc because I had so much of this type of
stuff.
As far as backups, previously I just made another copy every few
months (bad I know) onto another floppy. I recently bought a zip drive,
and now I back it up everytime I enter something into Mastercook.
Someone else was asking where to get the software and if there is a
cheap place. It's consistantly about $35 and I've seen it in most
places that sell a lot of software. You can also order it through the
mail directly from Sierra at:
http://www.sierra.com/
It's so cheap and well worth it given what you get. What I find most
useful is the search feature. If I'm craving something with spinach but
don't know what I feel like making, I just search for spinach :-)
Let me know if you have anymore questions.
Jessica
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