Productivity · Newsletter · 🇺🇸 United States · via agentusecases.ai
A 5-day meal plan that becomes a grocery cart
With the Instacart plugin, the author asked for a plan with no fish or pork and got the list already in the cart.
- Profession
- Home Cook
- Tools
- ChatGPT, Instacart
- Source
- year2049.substack.com ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- July 28, 2023
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
He asked for a 5-day plan using cuisines he likes, with no fish or pork, eggs at breakfast and nothing fried. He asked for more variety, then for the recipes, and finally the plugin built the list in Instacart.
How it went
It produced a meal plan and a list ready to check out; the first draft repeated some ingredients too much.
Good to know
Ask for variety explicitly and double-check the quantities.
The prompt
Create a [days]-day meal plan for [number of people] with [preferences] and without [restrictions]. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, reusing ingredients. Then generate the shopping list by section, with quantities.
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