This application finds the least-cost diet that fulfills a specific set of nutritional requirements It has a default basket of foods (with an associated set of nutritional data), but foods can be added or removed, with changes remembered from prior saved sessions.

Stigler studied this problem heuristically in the 1940s, but only the development of modern optimization algorithms gave relatively quick accurate solutions. The linear programming techniques implemented in this application are now widely used to create practical diet plans from accepted nutritional guidelines.