>I think the creators/authors of cookbooks are all senior-citizenish wimmen who
>haven't noticed that there's very few large families anymore and that
>most wives are in the workplace all day.

BINGO!!

My feelings exactly!

And why I've never found traditional recipe books to be
very helpful to me.

hence the desire for a "smart" meal planning
application.

I don't need an app to manage my inventory of food.
Heck I can do that by just looking at the cupboard.

But what I do need is an app that will design a weekly
monthly menu for me.... a single person..... who wants
to cook only enough for THAT meal..... no leftovers to
store.

If the app will plan the meals..... it can then produce
a shopping list that I can use to go buy the groceries
say on weekly basis.