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Meal plan and groceries

A weekly meal plan with the grocery list that goes with it. Your AI plans the dinners and writes the list in Amber Notes.

For households tired of deciding what's for dinner at 6 pm.

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30 September 2026

Meal plan and groceries

This week's dinners and the shopping list that goes with them. Tick things off in the shop.

Dinners

DayDinnerWho cooks
MondayLemon chicken with riceSara
TuesdayPasta with tomato and basilJonas
WednesdayFish tacosSara
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Groceries

Fruit and veg

  • Lemons
  • Basil
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Limes

Meat and fish

  • Chicken thighs
  • White fish

Other

  • Tortillas
  • Parmesan

Always in the cupboard

  • Olive oil, salt, pepper
  • Rice, pasta, oats
  • Onions, garlic

The note after a few days of talking to your AI. Tinted lines are what it added, the way Amber Notes shows an AI's changes, with Undo and the earlier version kept in the note's history.

What the prompt does

Your AI creates a note called “Meal plan and groceries” in your Home folder, or finds the one you already have, and learns how to keep it. This week's dinners and the shopping list that goes with them. Tick things off in the shop.

Paste it once into a chat in ChatGPT or Claude with Amber Notes turned on, or into Claude Code.

Then just talk to it

  • Plan dinners for this week. We're out on Friday, and no mushrooms.
  • Add oat milk and lemons to the groceries.
  • What's for dinner tonight?
Show the full prompt

First, look for a note called "Meal plan and groceries" in my Amber Notes with search_notes. If there isn't one, create it with create_note in the folder "Home", using exactly the markdown at the end of this message, the <!-- pane-table --> line included (it gives the table's columns their types). Then: Use my Amber Notes note "Meal plan and groceries". On the weekend, ask me which nights we're cooking and anything to avoid, then suggest dinners and fill in the Dinners table with edit_note (read the note with read_note first). Then add what we need under "Groceries" as a checklist with append_to_note, grouped by aisle, leaving out what's under "Always in the cupboard". Keep weeknight dinners under 30 minutes. If I add something during the week, add it to the list.

```markdown
Meal plan and groceries

This week's dinners and the shopping list that goes with them. Tick things off in the shop.

## Dinners
| Day | Dinner | Who cooks |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monday | | |
| Tuesday | | |
| Wednesday | | |
| Thursday | | |
| Friday | | |
| Saturday | | |
| Sunday | | |

## Groceries

## Always in the cupboard
- Olive oil, salt, pepper
- Rice, pasta, oats
- Onions, garlic
```

The note you start with

This is what the prompt creates in Amber Notes: an ordinary note with the headings and the table ready. Your AI fills it in from there, and you can still edit every line yourself.

Today

Meal plan and groceries

This week's dinners and the shopping list that goes with them. Tick things off in the shop.

Dinners

DayDinnerWho cooks
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Groceries

Always in the cupboard

  • Olive oil, salt, pepper
  • Rice, pasta, oats
  • Onions, garlic

How to set it up

  1. Add the template to Amber NotesChoose Use template. Amber Notes opens and adds the "Meal plan and groceries" note to the folder you pick.
  2. Connect your AIConnect ChatGPT, Claude or Claude Code to Amber Notes once, and choose Read and Edit so it can fill in the note.
  3. Give your AI the promptCopy the prompt for your AI and paste it into a chat. Then tell it what happened, in your own words.

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