Best Overall
Claude
Stays inside the ingredients you listed.
Open Claudeautomate · ~20 min
Not medical advice and not medical nutrition therapy. Not advice for allergies, disease, or disordered eating. You still check labels. Do not invent food already in the fridge.
Best Overall
Stays inside the ingredients you listed.
Open ClaudeBest Free
Enough for one careful paste-and-review session.
Open ChatGPTBest Power-User
Keep a standing pantry list; regenerate the week from it.
Open ChatGPTList pantry, fridge, and freezer items you can see. Add allergies/intolerances, household size, budget cap, cook-time cap, and equipment (one pot, oven, none). If you did not open the crisper, do not list produce you hope is there.
Paste the rules before the inventory so the model cannot add chicken, milk, or spices you did not name.
Copy-paste prompt
Build a meal plan from my pantry and constraints. Not medical nutrition advice. Not for diagnosing or treating allergies or disease. Hard rules: - Use only ingredients I list as ON HAND. Do not invent fridge/freezer items. - Grocery list = only extras I must buy to complete the plan. Keep it inside my budget if I gave one. - Honor allergies and “never serve” items exactly. If a recipe needs a banned item, skip it. - If time per night is missing, ask. Do not assume 60-minute cooks. - No supplement or calorie-target medical claims. Output: 1) 3–7 day plan (meal · minutes · ON HAND vs BUY) 2) Grocery list with rough quantities from my household size 3) Leftover reuse notes 4) UNKNOWN / unsafe-to-guess items Confirm the rules, then wait.
Drop the inventory and rules of the house. If two dinners share a buy, that is fine—say so. Then send:
Generate command
Here is my inventory and constraints. Build the plan. If a meal needs an item I did not list as ON HAND, put it on BUY or skip the meal. Do not assume I have oil, onions, or salt unless I listed them.
You still read allergy labels. If you want a prep-order for one shopping trip, use the block below. Cross off anything already in the cart.
Prep-order pass
Reorder the grocery list by store section (produce, dairy, shelf, frozen). Keep quantities. Do not add items. Flag any BUY item that conflicts with my allergy list.