Polenta Meal Planner

Description

Polenta Meal Planner is a free desktop app for planning daily meals. Keep a personal food database as plain XML files, build menus for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, filter by nation, and watch calories, protein, carbs and fats update in real time.

Platform: Windows 10/11 (x64) and Linux (amd64)
Windows requirements: Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime; Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (x64)
License: Freeware
Version: 3.0

Features

• XML food database
  Store foods with macros per 100 g, brands, default portions, nations and notes—no database server required.
• Multi-language food names
  Each food can carry names in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic. Lists and the editor follow the UI language, with a clear fallback chain when a translation is missing.
• Daily meal planner
  Organize meals by time of day with drag-and-drop from the food list.
• Macro totals
  Per-meal and daily totals for kcal, protein, carbs, fats, fiber and salt.
• Working nations
  Show universal foods (available everywhere) plus foods for the nations you select. At least one nation is required.
• Multi-language UI
  English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Arabic and Chinese.
• Filter, copy & export
  Quick food search, copy totals or the full menu, export a formatted daily menu to a text file.
• Themes
  Shared Polenta Connection looks (including Bootstrap 5, MakOS, Vivaldi and classic Windows-inspired styles).

Data storage

Foods and menus are saved as XML on your PC. Where they are stored depends on how you run the app:

• Portable download: next to the executable, in Foods and Menus folders. The zip includes PolentaMealPlanner.deploy.json with portable mode.
• Installer (Windows): under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Polenta Connection\PolentaMealPlanner. The installer sets installed mode automatically.

Your data stays on your computer—nothing is uploaded to the cloud.