Fill a Walmart cart with anti-inflammatory groceries with Claude in Chrome

Turn a weekly meal plan into an Instacart grocery cart with Claude

Author Emily Ley set up a Claude Project to take over the weekly grocery thinking. Ley uploaded about 10–15 meals the family makes regularly and wrote house rules: preferred brands, organic and grass-fed choices, and staples never to buy, like spices and minced garlic, plus paper towels bought at Costco. Each week Ley uploads a screenshot of the meal plan from the Notes app, and Claude pulls ingredients from the saved recipes, checks the rules and fills the Publix cart through Instacart, listing what it assumed was already at home, anything it substituted and quantities that need attention. Ley reviews the cart and checks out personally. The first cart needed a few corrections: Claude learned that two pork shoulders means two whole roasts, not two pounds. Ley had Claude turn each correction into a permanent Project instruction.

Cut a family grocery bill by planning meals from fridge photos with ChatGPT

Tom's Guide's Amanda Caswell asked ChatGPT for one trick to lower a grocery bill. It said to photograph the fridge, freezer and pantry, ask for five meals using what was already there, and buy only what those meals still needed. It came back with dishes like chicken tacos and bean and tomato soup, leaving Caswell needing maybe $40 of filler items instead of the usual $200. Caswell says the weekly spend went from about $350–$400 to about $200–$250.

Fill an Instacart cart for a risotto recipe with an AI agent: ChatGPT Dots did it, Gemini Spark froze

For PCMag, Ruben Circelli asked three agents to find J. Kenji López-Alt's no-stir risotto recipe, research the best version of each ingredient at the local Wegmans and add them to an Instacart cart. ChatGPT's Dots, once Instacart was connected, found the recipe, researched the ingredients and filled the cart without issue. Meta's Muse got there slowly, needed Circelli to log in and enter a verification code, and added saffron threads that aren't in the recipe. Gemini's Spark found the recipe and proposed ingredients but couldn't access the account, tried to take over Chrome and froze.

Ask Gemini to order dinner from a delivery app (it refused on an unsupported phone)

Android Police's Ali Salman Zia asked Gemini on their Pixel 8 to order a chicken burger, then to order it from Foodpanda; both times it gave the same refusal and told them to use a delivery app themselves. They found Google limits food and ride ordering to the Pixel 10 series and Galaxy S26, Z Flip 8 and Z Fold 8, for users 18+ in the US or Korea, with supported apps such as DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub.

Fill a Walmart pickup cart with 26 meal-plan groceries using ChatGPT computer control, stopping before checkout

With school and sports starting, Arthur Sullivan had ChatGPT make a meal plan and grocery list, then logged into Walmart and asked it to arrange the order: pickup time, store brands over name brands, and no purchase without review. Using ChatGPT Work's computer control, it added all 26 items to the cart; the only mistake was one lemon instead of two. Sullivan reviewed the order before buying.

Hand a family's weekly grocery shop to ChatGPT's in-app browser and find it takes nearly an hour

Betting they could do the weekly shop in five minutes, Kirk Simmons connected ChatGPT to the family Google Calendar to find a delivery window, gave it a spreadsheet of favourite recipes and household needs, and let its in-app browser shop. It asked what food was left, suggested a meal plan, turned it into a list, chose between two supermarkets on budget and fresh food, and clicked items into the cart one by one. It took nearly an hour, picked a fruit-and-veg box when asked for a fruit box, and spent time comparing ethical chocolate brands; the shop arrived on time and well under budget.

Turn a weekly meal plan into an Instacart grocery cart with Claude

Author Emily Ley set up a Claude Project to take over the weekly grocery thinking. Ley uploaded about 10–15 meals the family makes regularly and wrote house rules: preferred brands, organic and grass-fed choices, and staples never to buy, like spices and minced garlic, plus paper towels bought at Costco. Each week Ley uploads a screenshot of the meal plan from the Notes app, and Claude pulls ingredients from the saved recipes, checks the rules and fills the Publix cart through Instacart, listing what it assumed was already at home, anything it substituted and quantities that need attention. Ley reviews the cart and checks out personally. The first cart needed a few corrections: Claude learned that two pork shoulders means two whole roasts, not two pounds. Ley had Claude turn each correction into a permanent Project instruction.

Track down hard-to-find smart glasses with Perplexity Pro, but not buy them (partial)

Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses had been sold out since September 30, 2025, and blogger Joe ('bookofjoe') had found nothing through Google. Joe asked Perplexity Pro to help find a place to buy them. It took 'just under 9 minutes' and learned more than hours of Google searching had. The catch: buying required a mandatory in-person demo, and Joe had no interest in driving three hours each way to northern Virginia. One commenter urged suspicion of the AI's answer; Joe replied with Meta's own wording that a demo and fitting appointment is required. On StockX the glasses sold for around $830, against $799 retail.

Fill in product details a shopping site leaves out with Be My AI

Sana, who has been totally blind since birth and is Global Chief Privacy Officer at WSP, uses Be My AI to get information most shopping websites don't include. Looking for a coat, Sana wanted to know whether it had a belt and what color the zippers and buttons were; the website descriptions weren't full enough, and Be My AI 'filled in the gaps'. It helps on work trips too: once, unable to find the number for hotel reception, Sana pointed the phone camera at a card near the phone and had the answer in seconds.