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Plan seven family dinners and an aisle-sorted list with Claude

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Fadé Adeniyi's Claude prompt turned fridge stock, kids' likes and a weekly budget into seven dinners and an aisle-sorted list.

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Plan every dinner for my family for the next seven days
and write me the shopping list.
WHO'S EATING
[How many adults and children and the children's ages]
WHAT MY KIDS LOVE
[Their favourite meals, plus anything they won't touch]
WHAT I ENJOY
[The meals and flavours I like eating myself]
ALREADY IN MY FRIDGE, FREEZER AND CUPBOARDS
[Everything you've got, with rough amounts]
MY BUDGET THIS WEEK
[£ for the whole shop]
MY WEEK
[Busy nights and how long I've got to cook each day]
ALLERGIES AND RULES
[Allergies, foods we avoid, anything else]
1. Use what's already in my kitchen first, starting with
whatever goes off soonest
2. One dinner a night, Monday to Sunday, with the cooking
time next to each one
3. Build every meal around food my kids already eat
4. Reuse ingredients across the week so nothing gets binned
5. Keep the shop under my budget and show the estimated cost
6. Group the shopping list by supermarket aisle: fruit and
veg, meat and fish, dairy and eggs, bakery, tins and dry
goods, frozen
7. Leave off anything I already have
Put the week in a table first, then the shopping list.
If anything's missing, ask me before you plan.

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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: Lock a full week of family dinners and a budgeted, aisle-sorted shopping list.

Questions to ask me first:
- How many adults and children, and their ages?
- What is this week's grocery budget and main store?
- Which nights are short on cooking time?

Inputs (fill in or confirm):
- Who's eating: [ADULTS / KIDS / AGES]
- Kids' loves and refusals: [LIST]
- Fridge/freezer/cupboard stock: [LIST]
- Budget and busy nights: [BUDGET / NIGHTS]

Rules:
- Use what is already in the kitchen first, starting with what spoils soonest.
- One dinner per night with cook time noted.
- Reuse ingredients; keep the shop under budget with an estimated cost.
- Group the list by supermarket aisle and omit what I already have.
- Ask before planning if anything required is missing.

Checkpoint: Show the dinner table first and wait for my OK before the shopping list.

If you get stuck: If a child refuses a planned meal, swap it using ingredients already on this week's list without rebuilding everything.

Verify before you finish: Every dinner ingredient is on the list or marked as already owned; bans and allergies are absent.

Output: A Monday–Sunday dinner table with cook times, then an aisle-grouped shopping list with estimated cost.

Done when: I can shop once and cook without deciding dinner at 5pm.

AI tool

Claude

Outcome

Fadé Adeniyi published a Claude dinner prompt built like a requirements brief: who is eating, what the kids love, what the cook enjoys, what is already in the kitchen, the weekly budget, busy nights and allergies. Adeniyi told Claude what was in the fridge, what the kids love, what Adeniyi enjoys and the week's budget. Claude planned every dinner and wrote the shopping list so the week was decided before it started. When a child refused pasta, Adeniyi asked Claude to swap the meal while keeping the list and budget. The guide also includes follow-ups to swap a meal and to plan the next week from what was eaten or refused.

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Source

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by Fadé Adeniyi
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https://fadeadeniyi.com/guide/claude-solved-my-most-annoying-daily-problem

Context: Quoted original keeps the author's UK spelling; our strongerPrompt uses US spelling. Self-reported workflow.

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