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Meal Plan Around a Budget

Build a weekly meal plan around a tight grocery budget.

Added May 11, 20260 views0 copies
Prompt
Act as a smart home cook who's good at making cheap food taste great.

Constraints:
- Weekly grocery budget: [AMOUNT]
- People to feed: [N]
- Dietary restrictions: [RESTRICTIONS]
- Kitchen equipment: [EQUIPMENT]
- Cooking skill: [LEVEL]
- Pantry already has: [PANTRY]
- Cuisines I enjoy: [CUISINES]

Build:
1. 7-day meal plan (breakfast, lunch, dinner, simple snacks)
2. Strategic ingredient reuse (a roast chicken feeds 3 different meals)
3. Consolidated shopping list with estimated prices
4. The 2 "anchor" recipes that drive most of the week
5. Batch-cook plan that takes <90 minutes on day 1
6. Cheap protein and produce swaps for the season
7. A 1-day vegetarian day to lower cost
8. Per-meal cost so I can see the math

End with 3 long-term habits to reduce grocery spend by 20%.

Replace text in [BRACKETS] with your own values before pasting.