Plan a week of dinners with a shopping list
Seven dinners that fit your diet and time, with recipe links and one combined list by store section.
- You start it: When you start it
What it does
The task
Plan 7 dinners for people with these rules: diet. Each dinner takes at most minutes minutes and comes from a recipe site with a rating of 4.5 or more. Use the same ingredients in more than one dinner, so that little food is left over. Write a Google Doc named Dinners this week with a table of the day, the dish, the time and the recipe link. Below the table, add one shopping list for all 7 dinners, grouped by store section, with the quantities. Leave out the items that I already have: pantry.
- It works in any website and Google Docs, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
- It runs once, when you start it.
What you give it
| Blank | What to give | Example |
|---|---|---|
| people | Who eats, with the ages of children | 2 adults and 2 children aged 6 and 9 |
| diet | Diet rules and foods to avoid | Vegetarian, no mushrooms, mild spice |
| minutes | The most time for one dinner, in minutes | 40 |
| pantry | Items you already have at home | Rice, pasta, olive oil, onions, garlic, canned tomatoes |
What you get back
An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.
Doc: Dinners this week (2 adults, 2 children, vegetarian)
| Mon | Chickpea and spinach curry with rice | 35 min | link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | Halloumi and pepper traybake | 30 min | link |
| Wed | Black bean tacos | 25 min | link |
| Thu | Spinach and ricotta pasta bake | 40 min | link |
| Fri | Homemade margherita pizza | 40 min | link |
| Sat | Lentil shepherd's pie | 40 min | link |
| Sun | Pepper and feta frittata | 25 min | link |
Produce: 400 g spinach, 5 red peppers, 1 kg potatoes, 2 limes, 1 lettuce, 2 carrots
Dairy: 2 x 225 g halloumi, 250 g ricotta, 200 g feta, 2 mozzarella, 8 eggs
Dry and canned: 2 cans chickpeas, 2 cans black beans, 250 g green lentils, 8 tortillas
Run it in Cuiar
- 01
Open it
Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.
- 02
Fill in 4 blanks
Type people, diet, minutes and pantry. Tab moves to the next blank.
- 03
Run it
Run sends it to the agent. Follow each step in the panel, and stop it at any time.
From the terminal
cuiar exec "Plan 7 dinners for 2 adults and 2 children aged 6 and 9 with these rules: Vegetarian, no mushrooms, mild spice. Each dinner takes at most 40 minutes and comes from a recipe site with a rating of 4.5 or more. Use the same ingredients in more than one dinner, so that little food is left over. Write a Google Doc named Dinners this week with a table of the day, the dish, the time and the recipe link. Below the table, add one shopping list for all 7 dinners, grouped by store section, with the quantities. Leave out the items that I already have: Rice, pasta, olive oil, onions, garlic, canned tomatoes."Run it from your AI agent
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call run_task yourself.
1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp2. Ask your agent
Use the Cuiar tool run_task to run my "Plan a week of dinners with a shopping list" template with people = 2 adults and 2 children aged 6 and 9; diet = Vegetarian, no mushrooms, mild spice; minutes = 40; pantry = Rice, pasta, olive oil, onions, garlic, canned tomatoes.Setup for other agents: AI agents.
The tool call
{
"name": "run_task",
"arguments": {
"task": "Plan 7 dinners for 2 adults and 2 children aged 6 and 9 with these rules: Vegetarian, no mushrooms, mild spice. Each dinner takes at most 40 minutes and comes from a recipe site with a rating of 4.5 or more. Use the same ingredients in more than one dinner, so that little food is left over. Write a Google Doc named Dinners this week with a table of the day, the dish, the time and the recipe link. Below the table, add one shopping list for all 7 dinners, grouped by store section, with the quantities. Leave out the items that I already have: Rice, pasta, olive oil, onions, garlic, canned tomatoes."
}
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