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Plan a Czech family food week for €117 with ChatGPT
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ChatGPT cut Miriam Česáková's planning time, but the €117 till beat its €95 estimate and it partly forgot a no-pork rule.
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Plan a week of food for four people: two adults, children aged 9 and 13. Weekday dinners in 30 minutes or less, one pot if possible. No mushrooms. One adult does not eat pork. Breakfasts and packed snacks for the children; lunches happen at school and at work. Budget around €130 for the week, one ordinary supermarket, normal shelf prices. Output a table with day, dish, ingredients and quantities, then a shopping list sorted by store section.
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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about the details below and wait for my answers. Once I've answered, confirm the plan in one line and run the whole task start to finish. Goal: Plan seven days of family meals and a sectioned shopping list inside my euro budget. Questions to ask me first: - Household size, ages, and hard food rules? - Weekly budget and supermarket? - What is already in the fridge and pantry? Inputs (fill in or confirm): - People: [2 ADULTS + AGES] - Avoid: [MUSHROOMS / PORK / …] - Budget: [€130] - Store: [NAME] - Fridge/pantry: [LIST] Rules: - Honor every avoid rule for the whole week, not just day one. - Size portions for children, not four adults. - Sort the list by store section with quantities. - Price estimates are guesses; I verify at the till. Checkpoint: After the first draft, list any constraint you might have dropped. If you get stuck: If a rule conflicts with a recipe, swap the recipe; never drop the rule. Verify before you finish: No forbidden foods appear; quantities fit kids; list is shoppable. Output: Day table plus store-section list and a short leftovers note. Done when: I can shop once and cook the week with only planned swaps.
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Miriam Česáková handed a Czech household of four to ChatGPT for one week: ~€130 budget, no mushrooms, no pork for one adult, 30-minute weekday dinners. Planning fell from about 40 minutes to 20, and shopping from about 50 minutes to 30. The till came to €117 versus ChatGPT's ~€95 estimate. Wins included leftovers logic and a €1.20/portion lentil soup; misses included oversized portions, a forgotten no-pork rule on Saturday, and a fridge frittata that only worked after listing real fridge contents.
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What went wrong: Useful plan and faster shopping, but portions, price estimates, a forgotten pork ban, and fridge visibility still needed human fixes.
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https://www.ai-jarvis.eu/week-chatgpt-meal-planning-what-it-got-right-and-what-i-threw-out
Context: EU prices and Czech supermarket context; one-week self-test.
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