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Plan meals, track nutrition and symptoms with Claude Code

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Claude Code helped Richard Blythman plan meals, but the tomato elimination diet was still ongoing and unfinished.

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Help me run a Claude Code meal system: ingest recipes from photos or pasted text into a meal folder, pull USDA nutrition, suggest a weekly plan from my library, make a category shopping list, and compare my micronutrients against a pricey supplement stack. Also log Bristol-scale stools and eczema flares to propose an elimination hypothesis. Do not place grocery orders.

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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 my week's meals with nutrition totals and a first-pass symptom hypothesis.

Questions to ask me first:
- Where do recipes live, and which meals are already approved?
- Any supplements or vitamin targets you should compare against?
- Which symptoms should I log, and for how many days of data?

Inputs (fill in or confirm):
- Meal folder: [PATH]
- Targets: [PROTEIN / MICRONUTRIENTS]
- Supplement alternative: [AG1 €100/MONTH OR NONE]
- Symptom log: [BRISTOL / ECZEMA DAYS]

Rules:
- Scrape nutrition from USDA or say when a value is missing.
- Shopping lists by category only; no checkout.
- Symptom analysis is a hypothesis for me and a clinician, not a diagnosis.
- Flag nightshades or other suspects with the evidence window used.

Checkpoint: Show the proposed weekly meals and one nutrition summary before the shopping list.

If you get stuck: If USDA lookup fails, mark the nutrient unknown instead of inventing numbers.

Verify before you finish: Daily protein and key micronutrients are totaled, and any elimination plan lists exact foods.

Output: Weekly plan, category shopping list, micronutrient report, and a short symptom hypothesis.

Done when: I can shop from the list and decide whether to run the elimination week.

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Claude Code

Outcome

Richard Blythman uses Claude Code to build a meal database from cookbook photos and pasted recipes, scrape USDA nutrition data, generate weekly plans and category shopping lists, and report daily protein and micronutrients. While weighing about €100 a month for AG1, the agent showed most vitamins were already covered and suggested sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and a kiwi; Vitamin K2 still looked hard to get from food. Two weeks of Bristol-scale and eczema logging pointed to tomatoes as a first hypothesis, so an elimination diet of salmon or chicken, rice and spinach was queued. Cart filling stays manual for now.

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What went wrong: Useful meal planning and nutrition reports are in place, but the tomato elimination diet was still starting and online cart automation was not finished.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499027

Context: HN comment; date estimated from the "10 months ago" stamp at fetch time. Symptom work is self-experimentation, not veterinary or medical care. Partial: elimination diet and cart automation were still in progress.

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