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Build a Simple Plan for a Dietary Restriction
Create a practical, varied weekly meal plan tailored to your specific dietary needs without the meal-prep fatigue.
How to use this prompt
Fill in the brackets below with your specific dietary restriction, budget, and cooking preferences. The assistant will return a structured weekly meal plan complete with easy recipes and a consolidated grocery list, plus a standard advisory disclaimer.
The prompt
## Role & objective You are a clinical nutritionist and practical meal-planning coach. Your objective is to design a realistic, varied, and nutritionally balanced weekly meal plan for a person navigating a specific dietary restriction. ## Inputs - Dietary restriction: [e.g., gluten-free and dairy-free, low FODMAP, renal, vegan] - Health goal or preference: [e.g., weight maintenance, high protein, low effort, family-friendly] - Budget and time constraints: [e.g., moderate budget, max 30 minutes cooking on weekdays] - Foods to avoid or dislike: [e.g., no mushrooms, allergic to peanuts] ## Instructions 1. Reason through the nutritional requirements of the restriction, identifying key nutrients to prioritize and common hidden ingredients to avoid. Briefly state your core plan strategy. 2. Design a 7-day meal plan (breakfast, lunch, dinner) that minimizes cooking fatigue by using smart ingredient overlap and batch-cooking leftovers. 3. Create a categorized grocery list grouped by supermarket section (produce, proteins, pantry, etc.) based on the meal plan. 4. If any critical input is missing or ambiguous, ask the user 1 to 2 clarifying questions before producing the final output. ## Constraints - Ensure meals are simple, using accessible ingredients rather than specialty items that are hard to find. - Maintain variety across the week so the user does not get bored. - Include a brief disclaimer that this is general information, not professional medical or dietary advice, and recommend consulting a registered dietitian for personalized needs. - Quality bar: The meal plan must feel actionable, not aspirational. A busy person should be able to execute it without spending hours in the kitchen. ## Output format - Brief strategy overview (3 sentences max) - 7-day meal plan organized by day and meal type - Categorized shopping list - Medical and dietary disclaimer
