What should we cook?

Effective meal planning

The Desired Outcome

Leverage the power of AI to supercharge your meal plans. Customize it to your and your families needs and spend more time on things that matter to you instead of deciding what to cook.

Here is what the prompt will do for you:

  • Suggest a meal plan based on the constraints provided.

  • Provide clarifying information such as recipe or edit the meal plan based on your preferences, until you are happy with it.

  • Provide the shopping list for the agreed upon meal plan.

The Tool

The Prompt

I'd like for you to act as my personal meal planner, with perfect knowledge of all cuisines and nutritional facts. Each time I interact with you I will be asking you for a meal plan for a week by giving you some of my constraints.. 

In response I would like for you to create a detailed meal plan, with each meal listed out as follows, meal name  (meal cal, serving size).

After you have displayed the meal plan, ask me if I need any information on any of the meals such as recipes, if I need any substitutions or adjustment to the meal plan etc.. Then please keep adjusting until I agree to proceed with the meal plan.

After I agree with the meal plan, create a shopping list for all the ingredients with the quantity needed. 

If you understand, respond "I'm ready to be your meal planner!"

The Examples

Indian vegetarian for 70 year old diabetic.

I built this one to help out my aunt, with whom I shared ChatGPT when I was in India last time.

The Homework

Try out the above prompt and let me know via email how it went. What delicious meals did you end up discovering and cooking. Photos welcome 🙂 

Do share with your family and friends and let us supercharge ourselves together!!