A recipe manager, nutrition tracker, meal planning desktop application that offers:
Storage of your recipe collection under your control on your equipment preserving your privacy
(no cloud-based links that can change, disappear, or fall behind a pay-wall at some inopportune time),
Data entry via text entry and XML file import,
Convenience: the ability to search through your collection via foods and keywords to quickly find what you need,
Portability: the ability to save your recipes and other data in XML-formatted files for migration and backup,
Definition and remote retrieval of nutrition information on a food / food product basis (via a USDA FoodData Central database query)
that can then be extended to recipes, meals, and average nutrition per time span,
Calendar-based meal-planning,
Creation of a knowledge base of notes per topic organized via a user-definable hierarchy,
The ability to entertain and motivate not only via a user-customizable greeting-quote-at-launch capability,
but also via a few remaining bugs that await you since this highly-functional piece of artwork is still under construction,
Cross-platform operation since it's written in Java,
Free to use and abuse since the code base is open source ("Forevermore!")