Meal Planner — SKILL.md

A complete, ready-to-use skill file: build a week of meals with a consolidated shopping list and prep sequence. Copy it, install it on your platform, and the procedure runs whenever the task appears.

The skill file

---
name: meal-planner
description: Plan a week of meals around constraints. Use when given household size, restrictions, budget, or time limits.
---

# Meal Planner
## Inputs
People, dietary restrictions, budget level, weeknight time limit, any ingredients to use up.

## Procedure
1. Plan dinners first (7), then lunches that reuse dinner components at least 3 times.
2. Sequence the week so perishables bought once are used while fresh; schedule the most delicate ingredients early.
3. Consolidate the shopping list by store section, combining quantities across meals.
4. Add a prep session: the 30-45 minutes of advance work that makes the weeknights fast, itemized.

## Deliverable
1. The week table: Day | Dinner | Lunch | Time.
2. One-sentence method note per dinner.
3. The shopping list grouped by section, with quantities.
4. The prep-session list.

## Standards
- Weeknight dinners respect the stated time limit; any exception is flagged, not hidden.
- Restrictions are absolute: a restricted ingredient appears nowhere, including garnishes and sauces.

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How to install it

Create a folder for the skill: .claude/skills/meal-planner/ in your project, or ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects
Save the file above as SKILL.md inside that folder
Start a new Claude session and hand it the material the skill describes — it triggers from the description in the file
Adjust the standards section to your house rules; that section is written to be edited

What it produces

Build a week of meals with a consolidated shopping list and prep sequence.

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