Plan a week of time-saving dinners and a shopping list

A ready-to-use “Life & Finance” AI prompt template, designed and tested with ChatGPT. Replace the (bracketed) parts below with your own needs.

Prompt template
I want to plan the coming week's dinners, hoping prep isn't too time-consuming and ingredients aren't wasted. Help me arrange it.

Number of diners: ()
Dietary preferences or restrictions: (e.g., no beef, want more vegetables, someone is vegetarian)
Cooking time I'll spend per meal: (e.g., within 30 minutes)
Kitchen equipment: (e.g., have a rice cooker / air fryer / only a gas stove)

Please:
1. Plan a seven-day dinner menu (simple, easy-to-prep dishes)
2. Let ingredients be shared across days as much as possible to reduce waste
3. Organize a "category-sorted" shopping list (vegetables / meat / seasonings, etc.)
4. Mark which days you can prep ingredients the night before for a faster meal that day

How to use this prompt

  1. Copy the whole prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT or ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini.
  2. Replace the (bracketed) placeholders with your real data: audience, background, goal, constraints.
  3. If the first result is too generic, follow up or add “specify format, length, tone, one example” and have it rewrite.

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