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Plan a family meal budget for the week

Feeding everyone is the line that always overruns. Get a weekly food budget with meals that fit who you feed.

Updated 17 Oct 2026

The prompt · ChatGPT

Help me plan a family meal budget for the week.

Who I'm feeding: [ages, fussy eaters, allergies]
Weekly food budget: [amount]
How I shop: [one big shop, multiple, delivery]
How often I can cook from scratch: [details]
Equipment limits: [e.g. no oven at lunch]

Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers.

Then:
1. A weekly food budget split (mains, breakfasts, lunches, snacks).
2. A simple meal outline for seven days that fits.
3. A shopping list structure I can reuse.
4. Two batch-cook ideas that reduce midweek spend.
5. Where leftovers stretch a day.

No invented pack prices. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, figures or products. UK English.

Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.

A short example

Fill the blanks, then paste. ages, fussy eaters, allergies: a short note you already have. amount: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.

This does not give tax advice. The books stay in the accounting system.

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