The 6pm problem
Most food waste and most takeaways come from the same moment: it is early evening, nobody has decided anything, and the fridge contains four unrelated ingredients.
This pack fixes the deciding, not the cooking. You tell the assistant who you are feeding, what you have, what you can spend and how much patience you have on a Tuesday. It comes back with a plan and the shopping list already written.
What is in the pack
| Section | Prompts | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly planning | 12 | Budget-first plans, mixed households, plan around what is on offer |
| Shopping lists | 8 | Aisle-ordered lists, cost estimates, swap-out suggestions if over budget |
| Using what you have | 9 | Fridge clear-outs, leftovers, freezer roulette, the sad vegetable drawer |
| Fussy eaters and diets | 8 | Children, allergies, vegetarian in a meat-eating house, texture aversions |
| Batch cooking | 7 | Sunday prep, freezer stocking, one base into three dinners |
| Occasions | 6 | Feeding a crowd, packed lunches, a Christmas timing plan |
On allergies and dietary needs
Every prompt that touches allergies instructs the assistant to state clearly that ingredient lists must be checked on the actual packaging, and never to treat AI output as a safe substitute for reading a label. For medical diets, plan with the prompts and confirm with your dietitian.
Written for UK shopping
Ingredients, supermarket own-brand terms and portion assumptions are written for UK households, so you get "courgette" and "£40 a week", not "zucchini" and "$60".