Hello everybody!

I am looking for something that can do MENU PLANNING...

Keep track of meals by ie:

Main dishes - meatloaf
Sides - mashed potatoes
Deserts - Lemoncello cake

etc..

First, let me state, I do NOT NEED or WANT any features that keeps track of calories or other BS like that. I don't care about any of that.

Second, I don't do WINE, so none of the software that might exist on some other
alleged OS is not going to fly.

Now.....

I really don't want to have to old school this and print out 3x5 cards from Writer or worse hand write them...

I just wanto to have some way to look up the meals be it reciepes or just the names of meals I cook to plan out a menu, and if can print out a menu for the week in some nice cute formats, great, if not, thats fine too.. shopping lists is nice, but not a requirement... it would be nice...

If it can IMPORT receipes from the rec.arts.food group in that mastercook?? or something format, great... not a requirement...

DIY: - No at this time, I have other projects on tap.. and don't have spare time to code this and then enter data...

Online - meh,meh.. not really interested in something that will die in the middle of the night and take all this with it...

Cost: $0, period.

So any one done this on Linux????

Rick


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Hi! Rick,

On 08 Aug 19 21:12, you wrote to All:

I am looking for something that can do MENU PLANNING...

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So any one done this on Linux????

I don't cook. But I put together a small collection of simple recipes that I might try (to convince someone else to...).

KISS: it's a collection of recipe cards, in individual PDFs. (Any decent web browser (duh, Firefox) has a 'print to PDF' capability these days.) Each recipe PDF has a matching MP4 or AVI detailing the how-to choreograph the makings of the recipe (card), from talented poster-chefs on EwwToob.

Guess what: the filenames of each PDF matches the same for the video. Tada!

Cheers,
Paul.

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Quoting Rick Christian to All <=-

Online - meh,meh.. not really interested in something that will die in
the middle of the night and take all this with it...
Cost: $0, period.
So any one done this on Linux????

Yes and no... I use a combo of online (Bigoven) and the old Mealmaster for dos that I run under dosbox. The dos one is my main storage and bigoven is mainly for trying new things out as like you I don't trust online services.

Shawn


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Hello Paul!

09 Aug 19 15:49, you wrote to me:

I don't cook. But I put together a small collection of simple recipes that I might try (to convince someone else to...).

KISS: it's a collection of recipe cards, in individual PDFs. (Any
decent web browser (duh, Firefox) has a 'print to PDF' capability
these days.) Each recipe PDF has a matching MP4 or AVI detailing the how-to choreograph the makings of the recipe (card), from talented poster-chefs on EwwToob.

Guess what: the filenames of each PDF matches the same for the video.

Thanks, but that is much too simple for my taste.. in the 21st century...


Rick


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Hello Shawn!

09 Aug 19 14:57, you wrote to me:

Yes and no... I use a combo of online (Bigoven) and the old
Mealmaster for dos that I run under dosbox. The dos one is my main storage and bigoven is mainly for trying new things out as like you I don't trust online services.

Thanks, thats more in line with what I want...Well I could live with something under DOSBox.. rather have something more native *nix, but that is workable as it doesn't use the winvirii attack vector...

Never heard of bigoven...

Guess I need to track down a mealmaster somewhere... don't think I ever had it in any of my collection of DOS stuff...

What version of it and DOSBox are you using????? underlying distro?????

Would maybe give me a push to try out FD under DOSBox etc.. more for giggles than anything.. just wish FD was ported.. never was bink guy but that seems to be the only relatively easy to setup FTN stuff.. the Husky etc. stuff seems to require some dark magic and more time than I want or have to spend on it... although I wasted enough on bink and msgbox or something...

Rick


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Guess I need to track down a mealmaster somewhere... don't think I ever had it in any of my collection of DOS stuff...

The file you are looking for is mm806f.exe (or possibly .zip). I haven't used it myself but I believe that was the last version released as freeware.

I have it here at The Rusty MailBox.. :)

telnet://trmb.ca:2030

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Quoting Rick Christian to Shawn Highfield <=-

Thanks, thats more in line with what I want...Well I could live with something under DOSBox.. rather have something more native *nix, but
that is workable as it doesn't use the winvirii attack vector...

Not perfect but it's probably the best program out there for this.

Never heard of bigoven...

It's a web site. It works but when they go bankrupt you'll lose all
your recipes.

What version of it and DOSBox are you using????? underlying
distro?????

Just whatever dosbox I get with apt-get or downloading under windows
10. It doesn't need anythign special.

Shawn

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In a message on 09-12-19 Shawn Highfield said to Rick Christian:

Quoting Rick Christian to Shawn Highfield <=-

Thanks, thats more in line with what I want...Well I could live with something under DOSBox.. rather have something more native *nix, but
that is workable as it doesn't use the winvirii attack vector...

Not perfect but it's probably the best program out there for this.

Thanks for the info. Running OS/2 means that no 'DOSBox' is needed since
OS/2 has a better DOS than any other op-sys.

Even then, OS/2 happily runs DOS prorammes without the built-in DOS.


Have a nice day,

Holger


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