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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%.
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