ChickenPing - Your electronic recipe book

You can now download thousands of recipes online by using FatSecret.com's recipe search as well as ChickenPing's own online database.

• Added: FatSecret.com recipe search and download.
• Added: Check for updates feature.
• Fixed: Bug which caused sometimes causes an unhandled crash when editing the quantity field of an ingredient.
• Fixed: Importing bug which prevented recipes exported/reimported to a PC with different regional settings.

This version shouldn't need a database export, but you may want to for your own reference.

This release adds some requested features and should improve readability for imported recipes. Users of ChickenPing Mobile will need to update it to version 1.24 as well.

• Added: Persistent storage for In the Fridge (Thanks Esgrimidor).
• Added: French (Canada) translation (Thanks Gabriel Mongeon, ing. jr.).
• Added: Print preview to meal planner and recipe printing.
• Added: Option to print recipes when printing meals from the meal planner.
• Added: Minimum version check when synchronizing with ChickenPing Mobile.
• Changed: The contents of the fridge are now saved between restarts (Thanks Esgrimidor).
• Changed: Replaced buggy numeric up/down controls (spinners) with a simpler TextBox which responds to the arrow keys.
• Changed: Shopping lists are now synchronized with ChickenPing Mobile.
• Changed: Behaviour of MealMaster parser.
• Fixed: RecipeML parsing bug (Thanks Csutkbaba).
• Fixed: Recipe nutrition view bug.

Printing should work better for long recipes which span more than one page, it's been redesigned along with the meal planner (below).

ChickenPing is now available in Spanish and recipes can be imported from FDX format, which supports pictures.

• Added: Import from Food Data Exchange (FDX) format.
• Added: Spanish translation (Thanks Carlos).
• Changed: When searching for nutrition for a recipe, the food selected from the USDA database for each ingredient is now remembered.

It's now easier than ever to add recipes to ChickenPing. You can import RecipeML, MasterCook MX2 and MXP and Mealmaster files, as well as paste ingredients from a web site. There's also a 'Recipes' link in the top menu with some suggestions to get you started.

• Added: MealMaster, MasterCook MX2 and MasterCook plain text import.
• Added: Author and Preparation Time fields to recipes.
• Changed: Recipes and backups can now be imported from their native formats (xml, mmf, mx2 etc) as well as zip files or multiple zip files or any combination of the two.
• Fixed: Bug which caused fractions to be parsed incorrectly from RecipeML.

If you like the software, please donate (£10 was donated between January and November).

If you use ChickenPing Mobile, you'll need to hold off for a release if you still want to synchronize. ChickenPing Mobile has also been updated, so you need to make sure you're using 1.18.

ChickenPing 1.49 includes a German translation and new additions to the meal planner as well as tweaks and fixes throughout.

• Added: Meals list, search and print options to meal planner.
• Added: Ability to print a shopping list for a date range in meal planner.
• Added: German translation (Thanks Michael Erdmann).
• Changed: Redesigned shopping list print output.
• Changed: Pasting ingredients now only works when the Ingredients tab is selected.
• Changed: Colours on Sticky Fingers mode (Thanks Dave).

ChickenPing now has a meal planner, which will be extended with further functionality in the future as well as a translation into Spanish.

• Added: Meal Planner.
• Added: Option to manually specify calories for nutritional analysis.
• Added: Spanish translation (Thanks Arturo García).
• Added: Notification if a recipe has been scaled to allow use of discretion with cooking times.

It's now easier to lookup nutrition data for a whole recipe, and the ongoing problem with adding new measurements should also be resolved.

• Added: Nutritional analysis for a whole recipe.
• Added: Preference to enable/disable auto-completion of ingredient names.
• Changed: If the Add Recipe form is closed while an ingredient is being edited, the ingredient is now saved.
• Changed: Measurement Combobox on recipe and shopping list dialogs to an auto-completing TextBox instead.

For the nutrition conscious, looking up a nutritional analysis of calories, fat and other nutrients is now instant thanks to an option to download the USDA database.

ChickenPing will now recognize Spanish measurements and if you'd like to see your language supported, let us know or volunteer to translate.

• Added: Option to download a local copy of the nutrition database for instant searches.
• Added: Spanish measurement recognition (Thanks argarmx).
• Improved ingredient parser.

There's now a measurement converter to automatically convert quantities before displaying them. You can enter measurements as imperial or metric and automatically display them using one system or the other.

• Added: Measurement converter.
• Added: Global preference to convert all units automatically between metric and imperial.

Two important features have been added in this version. Nutrition data is now available for many ingredients, and there's improved support for copy and paste (no more manually typing ingredients).

• Added: Nutrition lookup for foods/ingredients.
• Added: Ability to paste ingredients from plain text.
• Changed: Quantities are now rounded to a maximum of 2 decimal places.
• Improved dragging and dropping

To try out the ingredient pasting feature, use the list below. Go to add a recipe then press Ctrl+V to paste onto the window. There are a couple of non-standard, unusual formats which don't work (eg: 1-3/4 oz as a measurement), but the majority will be recognized automatically. If there's a format you think should be added, let us know on the forums so we can add it in the next version.

1/2 cup almonds
3/4 cup butter
5 green onions, chopped (tops included)
1/2 cup almonds
boiled eggs
Powdered sugar
0.5 cup butter
1.5 cups sesame seeds
1.5 eggs
1 (2 1/2 oz.) pkg. Ramen noodles, broken
1 head Napa Chinese cabbage, shredded
1 1/2  cups peanut butter
2  cups icing sugar
1/4  cup butter/margarine, softened
1  ts vanilla
2  cups Semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/3  cup Grated Parowax (sealing wax)
5 Fresh mint leaves
1 ts Simple syrup (3 parts sugar)
Finely crushed ice
1-3/4 oz Bourbon