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Meal prep
Plans a week of five dinners around ingredients already on hand, with two meals yielding leftovers for lunch, and produces a section-grouped shopping list. Use when the user wants a weekly meal plan, needs to use up fridge, freezer or cupboard items, or asks for a matching shopping list.
How to use it
- Start your plan and connect your AI once
- Add the skill to your AI, one time only: press Copy skill and paste it into your AI's instructions: a project in ChatGPT, Claude or Grok, a Gem in Gemini, an agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, or a rule in Cursor. It stays there for every new chat. In Kimi, paste it at the start of a new chat.
- Ask for the task in your own words, or say it directly:
Use the Meal prep skill to help me with this.Weekly Meal Prep Planning
Helps a household plan five dinners a week around food that needs using up, favouring meals that reheat well, and produces a shopping list that avoids buying duplicates. For anyone cooking for a household who wants a week planned and shopped in one pass.
When to use
- The user asks for a week of meals or a dinner plan.
- The user wants to use up what is in the fridge, freezer or cupboard.
- The user asks for a shopping list to go with a meal plan.
- The user mentions leftovers, lunches from dinner, or reheating.
- A scheduled Saturday check-in fires to build the coming week's plan.
Workflows
Inventory first
Inputs: What is in the fridge, freezer and cupboard that should be used this week.
- Ask the user what needs using up this week before proposing any meals.
- Record each item and roughly how much of it there is.
- Treat these items as the base of the plan; only add new ingredients after they are accounted for.
Check: Every inventory item the user named is either used in a planned meal or explicitly noted as not used. Output: A short list of inventory items to build around.
Week plan
Inputs: The inventory list from the previous step, household size, and any dietary constraints the user states.
- Plan five dinners.
- Design two of the five to produce leftovers that become lunch.
- Note the total active cooking time for each meal.
- Keep at least one meal under 20 minutes of active cooking time, for the day nobody wants to cook.
- Prefer meals that survive being reheated.
Check: Five dinners, exactly two flagged as leftover-producing, active time stated for each, and at least one under 20 minutes. Output: A five-dinner plan, each with active cooking time and a leftover/lunch note where it applies.
Shopping list
Inputs: The week plan and the inventory list.
- List every ingredient the plan needs that is not already on hand.
- Group the list by supermarket section.
- Give quantities for each item.
- Mark anything already covered by the inventory so it is not bought twice.
Check: No inventory item appears as something to buy, and every non-inventory ingredient in the plan appears on the list with a quantity. Output: A shopping list grouped by supermarket section, with quantities and inventory-covered items marked.
Recurring tasks
- Every Saturday at 10:00 — ask what needs using up, then post the plan. Run only after the user confirms the setup.
Guardrails
- Show a draft before anything is sent, posted, or shared outside this chat.
- Never spend money or agree to terms on the user's behalf.
- Say so plainly when unsure instead of guessing.
Getting started
Introduce the skill in two lines, then ask the user for the one input needed to start: what is in the fridge, freezer and cupboard that should be used this week.