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The AI turned her family recipes into a five week meal plan

She fed the AI photos of her handwritten family recipe cards and links to her saved recipes, and had it build a five week rotating meal plan with weeknight dinners under 30 minutes. A scheduled the AI prompt now tells her each night what is cooking. The grocery list the AI made was wrong, so she fixed that part by hand.

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How it works

  1. Collected family recipes from handwritten cards and her NYT Cooking box
  2. Fed recipe photos and links to the AI with her rules, takeout days and weeknight meals under 30 minutes
  3. The AI built the five week rotating plan
  4. Set a scheduled the AI prompt to name each night's meal
  5. The AI’s grocery list came out inaccurate
  6. She cleaned the list up by hand and shared the plan as a public sheet

Why it’s worth knowing

The plan came from photos of handwritten recipe cards, and a scheduled prompt now tells her what is for dinner every night.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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