I'm reposting this question differently...

Instead of 'monitoring software' how about 'planning software' ??

Does anyone know of any program that will let you sit there and key in
various foods and ingredients when you are planning meals or dishes and/or
the weekly grocery shopping trip... and play the "what-if" game...

What if I add a table spoon of olive oil instead of butter...
What if I use wheat bread instead of white bread?
What if I cut this ingredient in half but double this other one?

So, instead of monitoring what you have already had to eat, you are planning
your meals and consumption.

It would be nice if this program would let you memorize your favorite dishes
and meals so once you had a number of them in you could just plan a weeks
meals with a few clicks or drags-n-drops...

Of course, I would want all the foods and ingredients already in the program
so I didn't have to key all that stuff in advance.

I'm not sure if the 3 programs mentioned recently here will do this or
not... so for clarity, I wanted to specifically ask the question of the
group.

thanks for all suggestions and comments.

Will