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# Plan a week of meals and a grocery list

A week of dinners and one grocery list, from what you have.

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- On a scheduleEvery Sunday
- ThenPlans five dinners
- ResultOne aisle-sorted list

Tell a bot what you like, what you have and how much time you have, and get a week of meals plus one combined shopping list.

## Prompt to start with

BotBentoRecommended

```
Plan five dinners for this week using what is in my fridge list first. Keep each under 40 minutes. Give one grocery list grouped by store aisle.
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CopyHermes AgentSetup sketch

```
Ask Hermes to create a scheduled task with the cron expression 0 10 * * 0 and this prompt: Plan five dinners for this week using what is in my fridge list first. Keep each under 40 minutes.
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Hermes Agent documents scheduled tasks that run on cron expressions. [Docs ](https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/cron)

OpenClawSetup sketch

```
openclaw automations create "0 10 * * 0" "Plan five dinners for this week using what is in my fridge list first. Keep each under 40 minutes." --name "Plan a week of meals and a grocery list"
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OpenClaw documents the openclaw automations CLI for cron schedules that run a prompt and can announce the result to a chat channel. [Docs ](https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/cron)

Grok BotSetup sketch

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Ask your Bot: "Every Sunday at 10:00 AM, plan five dinners for this week using what is in my fridge list first. Keep each under 40 minutes." Then open the routine and check When to run.
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Grok Bot documents routines that run a Bot's workflow on a schedule or after an event. [Docs ](https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/skills-routines-and-automations)

## Tools it uses

NotesCalendar

## Works with

BotBentoHermes AgentOpenClawGrok Bot

## Tags

- meals
- groceries
- planning

## Source

[Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45724229)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-14

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-14 · Updated 2026-10-14 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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