Meal planning software for OSX?

January 1, 2006 5:30 PM

Any recommendations for meal-planning software I can run on my iBook?

I am looking for a computer program that I can run on my iBook (OSX.4) that I can use to plan my meals out for a week. Ideally, this will let me enter the meals I want to make for each week, with the component ingredients, and will then create a shopping list of the items I need, a weekly calendar listing the actual recipes, as well as giving me space to track the calories and other nutritional data for each day (or, even better, figure out this data for me).

I know there are websites (fitday comes to mind) that do this but as I would prefer something that is not dependent on Internet access. Also, things like fitday seem more geared toward tracking consumption while the most important thing to me is planning.

I'd also like it to be able to "remember" recipes. For example, if I entered "Apple Cinnamon Pancakes" as an item with certain ingredients one time, the next time I entered "Apple Cinnamon Pancakes" it'd pull up that information for me from a recipe database that I can create.

posted by synecdoche to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Cookware Deluxe lets you collect recipes and plan a menu, which generates a shopping list. I don't think it does the nutritional or calorie stuff, though there is room to add custom data to your recipes.
posted by slightlybewildered at 6:38 PM on January 1, 2006

Oh, just noticed that it does in fact have a nutritional data area on each recipe.
posted by slightlybewildered at 6:40 PM on January 1, 2006