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Run Friday meal-plan and grocery-budget agents with Claude
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Ann-Marie's Claude agents cut Sunday meal-and-budget work from about 90 minutes to roughly 10 and saved about $30 a week.
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Act as three cooperating agents for my household food week. Agent 1: read my recent grocery spending and return only how much I have left under my monthly food ceiling. Agent 2: build a 7-day plant-predominant meal plan that hits my protein and fiber targets and stays inside that allowance, reusing pantry items. Agent 3: turn the plan into one shopping list, estimate store prices, and if over budget send swaps back to Agent 2. Run this every Friday morning and leave me a phone checklist.
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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: Produce a Friday meal plan and shopping list that fits this week's grocery allowance. Questions to ask me first: - What is the monthly food ceiling and what have I spent so far? - Dietary rules, pantry stock, and kitchen tools? - Which stores should price estimates use? Inputs (fill in or confirm): - Food ceiling: [MONTHLY $] - Spent so far: [AMOUNT / CSV] - Diet: [PLANT-PREDOMINANT / MACROS] - Pantry: [LIST] - Stores: [NAMES] Rules: - Budget agent outputs one remaining-dollar number first. - Meal agent must satisfy nutrition and dollar ceiling together. - List agent consolidates ingredients and loops if the basket is over. - Read-only on money; never move funds or place orders. Checkpoint: Show the remaining budget and draft meal titles before building the full list. If you get stuck: If bank data is missing, ask for a CSV instead of guessing. Verify before you finish: Basket estimate is under the allowance, or swaps are listed with reasons. Output: Friday packet: remaining budget, 7-day plan, phone checklist, overage notes. Done when: I can review in about 10 minutes and shop from the list.
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Ann-Marie built three Claude agents that hand work to each other on a Friday-morning schedule: a budget tracker reads spending and returns the week's grocery allowance, a meal planner builds a seven-day plant-predominant plan inside that dollar ceiling, and a grocery-list builder consolidates ingredients, estimates basket cost, and loops back if over budget. After a few weeks, Sunday meal-and-budget work fell from about 90 minutes to roughly 10 minutes of review, compute cost about $12 a month, grocery spend stayed inside the ceiling, and average savings were about $30 a week. Web price scans are estimates; payment stays human.
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https://herhighreturn.substack.com/p/i-gave-three-ai-agents-one-job-each
Context: Author left some figures as ranges in the post; $12/month compute and $30/week savings are the published numbers. Price scanning is estimated, not receipt-level.
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