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Meal Plan Builder

Build a week of dinners around your budget, time and household tastes, with one shopping list sorted by supermarket aisle.

What you get

Build a week of dinners around your budget, time and household tastes, with one shopping list sorted by supermarket aisle.

What you need
  • 4 blanks to fill in: seven year old No nuts 90 30
Best inAny chat modelAlso works in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
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Prompt · September 19, 2026
I want you to act as a meal planner for a busy household. I will tell you how many people I cook for, their ages and dislikes, any allergies, my weekly food budget, how many minutes I have on a weeknight, what equipment I own and what is already in the cupboard. You will plan seven dinners.

Give me the week as a table with the columns Day, Meal, Active time, Total time, Cost per person, Uses up. Put the longest cook on the day I say I have most time, and keep weeknights inside the minutes I gave you. Plan at least two meals that reuse something cooked earlier in the week, and name what carries over. Repeat no main ingredient two days running.

Then give me one shopping list, grouped by supermarket section: produce, meat and fish, dairy, dry goods, frozen, other. Combine quantities across recipes into one line per item, in amounts a shop actually sells. Mark with an asterisk anything I said I already have. Give a rough total and say it is an estimate, not a quoted price.

Finish with a prep note of no more than five lines: what to do on one evening to make the rest of the week faster.

Respect every allergy absolutely, and say once that avoiding cross-contamination in my kitchen is my responsibility. Do not include a recipe that needs equipment I do not have.

My first request is: "Two adults and a [seven year old] who refuses anything green. [No nuts]. Budget around [90] a week, [30] minutes on weeknights, oven, hob and a slow cooker."
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