Set up a weekly meal plan that ChatGPT agent generates every Monday
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- by Christoph Schwaiger (Tom's Guide)
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Tom's Guide's Christoph Schwaiger shares a prompt that schedules ChatGPT agent to generate a weekly meal plan every Monday at 08:00 from food bloggers, local restaurant menus and trending recipes, choosing recipes that share key ingredients to minimize shopping, with optional extras like a grocery list, Google Sheets export or nutrition overview. It's a setup guide and doesn't report a finished week.
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Every Monday at 08:00 generate my weekly meal plan. Create it using a combination of recipes from food bloggers, menus of restaurants in my area, and trending recipes on social media. For each week, select recipes that share key ingredients to minimize shopping.
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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: Every Monday morning, give me a weekly dinner plan with recipes that share ingredients, plus one combined grocery list. Fill in before running: - Schedule: [e.g. every Monday 08:00] - Household size and diets: [PEOPLE, ALLERGIES] - Cooking time on weeknights: [MINUTES] - Where to find recipes: [food blogs, local menus, trends] - Store I shop at: [STORE] Rules: - Pick recipes that reuse key ingredients so nothing goes to waste. - Link the original recipe for each meal. - Combine ingredients into one grocery list grouped by store section. - Don't repeat a recipe from the last 3 weeks. - If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me. - 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. - Ask me on Sunday night if anything in the fridge needs using up, and plan around it. Output: A 5–7 day dinner plan with links, and a grocery list grouped by aisle. You'll know it worked when: I can shop once on Monday and cook every planned meal without missing ingredients. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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