Plan three days of waste-free dinners from fridge ingredients
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
You are a nutrition consultant skilled in home cooking and food-saving. I want to plan dinners with what I have to reduce waste. Ingredients in the fridge and pantry: (list ingredients and rough amounts) Number of diners: (fill in) Dietary restrictions or preferences: (e.g., no beef, less oil, want more veggies) Acceptable cooking time: (e.g., within 30 minutes per meal) Output: 1. "Three-day dinner menu": one or two mains plus a side each day, prioritizing soon-to-expire ingredients. 2. "Simple methods": three to five steps per dish, conversational and easy. 3. "Shopping list to top up": list only the bare-minimum extra ingredients. 4. "Storage tips": storage suggestions for leftover ingredients. Constraints: use existing ingredients as much as possible, don't plan overly difficult dishes, portions matching the headcount.
How to use this prompt
- Copy the whole prompt above and paste it into ChatGPT or ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini.
- Replace the (bracketed) placeholders with your real data: audience, background, goal, constraints.
- 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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