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Meal plan and groceries

A weekly meal plan with the grocery list that goes with it. Your AI plans the dinners and writes the list in Amber Notes.

For households tired of deciding what's for dinner at 6 pm.

Free. Paste the prompt into ChatGPT or Claude with Amber Notes connected: it creates the note, then fills it in. For Claude Code, use its tab below. No Amber Notes yet? Download it for Mac.

Today

Meal plan and groceries

This week's dinners and the shopping list that goes with them. Tick things off in the shop.

Dinners

DayDinnerWho cooks
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Groceries

Always in the cupboard

  • Olive oil, salt, pepper
  • Rice, pasta, oats
  • Onions, garlic

Tell your AI

First, look for a note called "Meal plan and groceries" in my Amber Notes with search_notes. If there isn't one, create it with create_note in the folder "Home", using exactly the markdown at the end of this message, the <!-- pane-table --> line included (it gives the table's columns their types). Then: Use my Amber Notes note "Meal plan and groceries". On the weekend, ask me which nights we're cooking and anything to avoid, then suggest dinners and fill in the Dinners table with edit_note (read the note with read_note first). Then add what we need under "Groceries" as a checklist with append_to_note, grouped by aisle, leaving out what's under "Always in the cupboard". Keep weeknight dinners under 30 minutes. If I add something during the week, add it to the list.

```markdown
Meal plan and groceries

This week's dinners and the shopping list that goes with them. Tick things off in the shop.

## Dinners
| Day | Dinner | Who cooks |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monday | | |
| Tuesday | | |
| Wednesday | | |
| Thursday | | |
| Friday | | |
| Saturday | | |
| Sunday | | |

## Groceries

## Always in the cupboard
- Olive oil, salt, pepper
- Rice, pasta, oats
- Onions, garlic
```

Paste it into a chat in ChatGPT with Amber Notes turned on. That chat keeps it; paste it again when you start a new one.

Then just talk to it

  • Plan dinners for this week. We're out on Friday, and no mushrooms.
  • Add oat milk and lemons to the groceries.
  • What's for dinner tonight?

What you'll get

The same note after a few days of talking to your AI. Tinted lines are what it added, the way Amber Notes shows an AI's changes, with Undo and the earlier version kept in the note's history.

30 September 2026

Meal plan and groceries

This week's dinners and the shopping list that goes with them. Tick things off in the shop.

Dinners

DayDinnerWho cooks
MondayLemon chicken with riceSara
TuesdayPasta with tomato and basilJonas
WednesdayFish tacosSara
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Groceries

Fruit and veg

  • Lemons
  • Basil
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Limes

Meat and fish

  • Chicken thighs
  • White fish

Other

  • Tortillas
  • Parmesan

Always in the cupboard

  • Olive oil, salt, pepper
  • Rice, pasta, oats
  • Onions, garlic

How to set it up

  1. Connect your AIConnect ChatGPT, Claude or Claude Code to Amber Notes once, and choose Read and Edit so it can write the note.
  2. Paste the promptCopy the prompt for your AI and paste it into a chat. It creates the "Meal plan and groceries" note in your Home folder, if you don't have it yet.
  3. Talk to your AITell it what happened, in your own words. It fills in the note, and you see every change in Amber Notes.

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