Plan 15 family meals a week from a recipe library and make the shopping list with Grok Bot

Posted

Oct 7, 2026 by Lyndall Schreiner (@lyndallschreinr)

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Last checked

Oct 18, 2026

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Context: The poster is chief of staff at Wispr Flow and shared a public template for the bot.

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Outcome

After a decade of trying to automate meal planning (a spreadsheet, then a self-built app), the poster now has a custom Grok Bot that plans 15 meals a week for the family. It keeps a library of recipes as Markdown files, makes a printable weekly meal plan and produces a shopping list, which the poster pastes into ChatGPT to fill an Instacart order.

Agent

Grok Bot, ChatGPT

The source didn't share its exact prompt, so we wrote this from what it describes.

Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to.

Goal: Plan this week's family meals from my recipe library and give me a printable plan and a shopping list.

Fill in before running:
- My recipe library: [RECIPES]
- How many meals this week and for how many people: [MEALS + PEOPLE]
- Busy nights and anything we want to avoid: [NOTES]
- What's already in the fridge and cupboard: [PANTRY]

Rules:
- Only use recipes from my library unless I ask for something new; save any new ones in the same format.
- Don't repeat a main dish within the week.
- Combine ingredients across recipes into one list, grouped by store section, minus what I already have.
- Make the plan fit on one printed page.
- Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything.
- Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify.

Output: A one-page weekly plan and a combined shopping list ready to paste into a grocery app.

You'll know it worked when: I can shop once and cook every planned meal without another trip.

Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to.

Goal: Plan this week's family meals from my recipe library and give me a printable plan and a shopping list.

Fill in before running:
- My recipe library: [RECIPES]
- How many meals this week and for how many people: [MEALS + PEOPLE]
- Busy nights and anything we want to avoid: [NOTES]
- What's already in the fridge and cupboard: [PANTRY]

Rules:
- Only use recipes from my library unless I ask for something new; save any new ones in the same format.
- Don't repeat a main dish within the week.
- Combine ingredients across recipes into one list, grouped by store section, minus what I already have.
- Make the plan fit on one printed page.
- Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything.
- Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify.
- Mark any ingredient that's used in only one recipe, so I can decide whether it's worth buying.

Output: A one-page weekly plan and a combined shopping list ready to paste into a grocery app.

You'll know it worked when: I can shop once and cook every planned meal without another trip.

Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.

Source

https://x.com/lyndallschreinr/status/2107888353630908437