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Plan the Week's Meals From What You Already Cook

Keep your recipes in a workspace and let an agent plan a week of meals that respects your dietary rules, then hand you one consolidated shopping list. Add online recipes by URL or a photo of a recipe card.

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See the Workflow in Action

An illustrative example run, not customer data.

The Challenge

Deciding what to cook every night, checking what everyone can eat and then writing a shopping list by hand takes an hour you would rather spend cooking.

Manual Planning Problems:

  • Repeating the same few meals out of habit
  • Forgetting dietary restrictions or allergies
  • Ingredients bought twice or forgotten
  • Online recipes not kept in one place

The Solution

Keep your recipes in a workspace, add online recipes by URL or a photo of a recipe card, and let an agent plan the week and build the shopping list for you.

Assisted Planning Benefits:

  • A varied week planned in minutes
  • Dietary rules and allergies always respected
  • One consolidated, aisle-grouped shopping list
  • Recipes kept in one searchable place

Weekly meal plan and consolidated shopping list

(Example output)

Step-by-Step Tutorial

Set up your weekly meal plan

1

Create the Meal Planner Agent

Create an agent that plans only from your recipes and preferences.

Agent Configuration:

  • Name: Meal Planner
  • System Prompt: "Plan meals only from the provided recipes. Always respect the dietary preferences. Name the source recipe for each meal and consolidate the ingredients into one shopping list."
  • Tools: fetch_website, search_data_item, read_data_item, create_file
2

Add Your Recipes

Save recipes as notes in a context, fetch online recipes by URL, or upload a photo of a recipe card. Everything becomes searchable.

Example Prompt:

"Fetch this recipe and add it to the Recipe Collection context: https://example.com/recipe/roast-vegetables"

3

Plan the Week

Ask for a week of meals and the shopping list in one request.

Example Prompt:

"Plan breakfasts, lunches and dinners for next week using my recipes and respecting my dietary preferences. Name the recipe for each meal, then create a Markdown meal plan and a CSV shopping list grouped by aisle."

4

Review and Shop

Adjust any meals you do not fancy, download the shopping list and take it to the supermarket.

Tip: Schedule the workflow for Sunday afternoon so the plan and list are ready before your weekly shop.

How It Works

Behind the scenes: from recipes to shopping list

1. Collect

Recipes from notes, URLs or photos are ingested into searchable context.

2. Retrieve

The agent searches the collection for meals that fit the preferences.

3. Plan

A varied week is planned and ingredients are consolidated into one list.

4. Export

The meal plan and aisle-grouped shopping list are saved as files.

Technical Capabilities

Recipe Handling:

  • Saved recipes, online URLs and recipe-card photos
  • Dietary restrictions and dislikes respected
  • Ingredient quantities merged across meals
  • Workspace-level access control

Tools Used:

  • fetch_website: Add online recipes
  • search_data_item: Find suitable recipes
  • read_data_item: Read full recipes
  • create_file: Generate plan and shopping list

Ready to Stop Planning Meals by Hand?

Add your recipes and get a week of meals and a shopping list in minutes.

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