Productivity
A week of meals, planned in seconds
Share your dietary preferences, budget, and schedule and get a weekly meal plan with a shopping list.
For the best results: Share dietary preferences, weekly budget, household size, and how much weeknight effort is realistic. Mention meals you already love, repeats are a feature, not a failure.
What is AI Meal Planner?
AI Meal Planner is a free AI productivity tool that plans a week of meals with a shopping list around your dietary preferences, budget, and schedule. It routes your request to the model best suited to it and returns a weekly meal plan with a consolidated shopping list in seconds, with no account required and nothing kept for busy households planning meals around a real budget and schedule once the session ends.
- ✦Open and use it, no account required for any text tool
- ✦Documents route automatically to a model suited to the task
- ✦Files and text are processed for your result, then cleared with the session
Models: It routes across leading models including Gemini, Llama and Mistral families, picking the best available one per request. The exact model used is shown after every response.
See it in action
You want to cut the grocery bill and stop the 5pm scramble that keeps ending in takeaway.
What you type
Plan a week of vegetarian dinners for two on a tight budget. Nothing over 30 minutes on weeknights, and I do not eat mushrooms.
What you get
The week (dinners only): - Mon: Red lentil dahl with rice (batch-cooks; leftovers feed Thursday) - Tue: Halloumi and roasted veg traybake - Wed: Pasta with tomato and white bean sauce - Thu: Leftover dahl, topped with spinach - Fri: Veg and chickpea curry ... Shopping list (grouped): Pantry: red lentils 500g, basmati rice 1kg, tinned tomatoes x3, tinned chickpeas x2, white beans x1, pasta 500g Fresh: spinach, onions x4, garlic, courgette, pepper Dairy: halloumi x1 (No mushrooms anywhere on the list.) Prep-ahead: Cook the dahl in a double batch on Sunday; dice the onions and garlic for the week in one go.
Tip: If dinners are all you want, say so. It defaults to planning breakfast, lunch and dinner, so 'just dinners' keeps the shopping list from ballooning with breakfast items you would never buy.
Use cases
What people use it for
Rein in a grocery bill that creeps higher every month on the same shop.
Map the week's dinners in advance so 5pm decision fatigue stops ending in takeaway.
Feed a vegetarian teenager and a meat-eating partner from one shopping list.
Who uses AI Meal Planner?
Meal preppers
planning a week of batch-cookable dinners that reheat well, with a shopping list to match, every Sunday
New parents
sorting simple, quick meals for a chaotic week so dinner is decided before the tiredness hits
Budget-conscious sharers
feeding a flat of housemates on a tight weekly spend with meals built around cheap, filling staples
How it works
- 1Paste the text, upload the file, or describe the task.
- 2The best-suited model extracts, transforms, or organizes it.
- 3Copy the structured result into wherever the work happens.
Tips for the best results
- Tell it your household size and any dislikes up front, so the plan does not need reworking meal by meal.
- Set a realistic weekly budget and it will lean on cheaper staples and repeat ingredients across recipes.
- Say how much time you have to cook on busy nights, so quick meals land midweek and longer ones at the weekend.
- Ask it to reuse ingredients across several meals, which keeps the shopping list short and cuts waste.
- Check the shopping list against your cupboards before shopping, and delete anything you already have.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Will the plan actually stay inside my budget?
It plans toward the figure you give using typical prices, but it can't see this week's shelf prices at your supermarket, so treat any costing as an estimate. Where it genuinely helps is structural: repeating ingredients across meals so nothing is bought for one dish, leaning on cheaper proteins, and building around specials you mention. The real number still comes from your receipt.
How does the shopping list part work?
Ingredients from the whole week get consolidated into a single list with quantities combined, so five meals wanting onions becomes one line. Ask for it grouped by supermarket section (produce, chilled, pantry) and cross off what you already own before leaving. Copy it to your phone before closing the tab, since nothing is stored once you do.
Can it plan for weight loss or a medical diet?
It can shape a week around general goals (more vegetables, fewer processed foods, lighter dinners) but it isn't a dietitian, and any calorie or nutrient figures it offers are estimates. For medically prescribed diets, whether diabetes, kidney disease or diagnosed coeliac, get the rules from your health professional first and give those to the planner as constraints to work within.
Half my household are fussy eaters. Can one plan feed everyone?
List the vetoes and the few things everyone agrees on, and it plans base meals with variations rather than separate menus, one tray bake with sauce served on the side, tacos where each person assembles their own. That's how households actually solve this, and it keeps you cooking once per evening instead of running a short-order kitchen.
Can the plan help cut down food waste?
Ask for meals that share ingredients across the week and nothing half-used lingers in the fridge, the bunch of coriander bought for Monday resurfaces Thursday, Sunday's roast becomes Tuesday's sandwiches. Tell it what's already in the crisper and it builds the first days around what will spoil soonest, which is where most of a household's waste comes from.
Can it plan meals for a specific diet like vegan or keto?
Yes. Name the diet you follow, whether vegan, vegetarian, keto, halal or something else, and the whole plan will stick to it, including the shopping list. The more you spell out what is in and out, the fewer meals you will need to swap once the plan comes back.
Can I set how many meals a day or how many people?
Yes. Tell it how many people you are feeding and whether you want breakfast, lunch and dinner or just some of them, and it will size every recipe and the shopping list accordingly. You can also ask it to reuse leftovers across days, which trims both the cost and the waste.
Is there a free meal planner with no sign up?
Yes. Share your preferences, budget and schedule and get a weekly plan with a shopping list free, with no account or payment. Make as many plans as you like. Copy the plan and list into your notes or phone, since nothing is saved here for you to come back to.
What are the usage limits?
Text-based productivity tools are unmetered during the current free launch phase; audio-based ones share the audio fair-use limits since transcription costs real compute. Normal daily use never notices either. Paid plans with higher limits and priority model access are coming soon.
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