Holidays – you can’t live with them; you can’t live without them. The joy of family, the spirit of thanksgiving and the pleasure of incredible food are only rivaled by tight budgets, lost time and the one-million things that have suddenly been added to your to-do list. All you people who just finished cooking Thanksgiving dinner know what I’m talking about.

Fortunately, Cook’n is here to save the day – we designed it to be especially useful for the holidays! Here are three simple ways you can use Cook’n to make the most of the holidays.

Organize Your Recipes

As I grew up, my family always used a recipe for rosemary-turkey with specialty stuffing for Thanksgiving. I remember the same headache every year as my mom desperately searched for the recipe, which was scribbled on a 3x5 card and stored away with our holiday decorations. All of that frustration ended when my mom was introduced to Cook’n. Now, my mom can find any recipe she needs, no matter the occasion.

If you have a collection of printed recipes on paper, the holidays might be the perfect time to digitize them on your computer. If you use the Cook’n mobile app, then you’ll have every recipe you need right in your pocket!

Find New Favorite Recipes

Ah, eggnog! As a little kid, it was a tradition for my parents to take me and my siblings to get a Christmas tree. The kids would run around, playing tag in the trees while my parents shopped. Then we would go home and decorate the tree. Then came the best part: we shared some hot eggnog with whipped cream and fresh nutmeg.

Unfortunately, I may have ruined that hot eggnog tradition when I introduced my family to specialty, homemade eggnog. But some traditions are meant to be soiled, especially when incredible beverages are involved.

Frankly, if every dish at the holiday table does not positively delight you, then the dish doesn’t belong there. Use Cook’n to look for something else and replace your lackluster holiday recipes with something better.

To make this as easy as possible, don’t forget about the Cook’n Capture plugin!

Make Shopping Easy

The holidays are a joy – as long as you never go shopping, leave the house, or on some days, even get out of bed. Christmas presents and special meals are a quick recipe for a headache that you don’t need at this time of year. Thanksgiving is over, but Christmas Eve is already on the way, closely followed by New Year’s Eve. You have a lot more cooking to do!

Seriously, remove some of the holiday stress by getting to know the Cook’n Grocery List and Menu Planning features. They will save you a lot of time and energy!