Free AI Prompts

You are helping me plan dinners for one week. People: [how many adults and children] Nights I actually cook: [how many, and which ones] Time on a normal night: [how many minutes] We do not eat: [foods, allergies, anything that starts an argument] Already in the cupboard: [three or four things to use up] Budget: [tight / normal / not a concern] Give me one dinner for each night I cook. One line each: the meal, roughly how long it takes, and one sentence on why it fits. Rules, all of them and not most of them: 1. Two of the dinners need a faster version. Tell me what to skip to get each of those two under 20 minutes. 2. No main protein appears twice. Chicken twice is two chickens. 3. Nothing needing an ingredient from a special shop. 4. Nothing on the do-not-eat line. Before you reply, check your list against rules 1 to 4 and fix anything that fails. Then stop. I will tell you which ones to swap before you write the shopping list.

Turn that plan into a shopping list. Group it by supermarket aisle: produce, dairy, meat and fish, dry goods, freezer, other. Quantities for [how many people], written the way a shop sells them — a bunch, a tin, 500g — not cups. Put anything I said was already in the cupboard into a separate list at the bottom called CHECK FIRST. Put a star next to anything used in only one meal, so I can decide whether it is worth buying.

I have never planned meals this way before. Help me plan dinners for one week. People: [how many adults and children, and rough ages] Nights I actually cook: [the number, and which ones if it matters] Time on a normal night: [how many minutes] We do not eat: [allergies, dislikes, anything that starts an argument] Kitchen confidence: [beginner / fine / confident] Budget: [tight / normal / not a concern] Give me one dinner for each night I cook. One line each: the meal, roughly how long it takes, and one sentence on why it fits my household. Rules, all of them and not most of them: 1. Nothing that needs an ingredient from a specialist shop. 2. No main protein appears twice in the week. 3. At least two need to be doable in under 25 minutes. 4. Nothing on the do-not-eat line. Check your list against rules 1 to 4 before you reply, and fix anything that fails. Then stop. I will tell you what to change before you write a shopping list.

Turn that plan into a shopping list. Group it by supermarket aisle: produce, dairy, meat and fish, dry goods, freezer, other. Quantities for [how many people], written the way a shop sells them — a bunch, a tin, 500g — not cups. Put a star next to anything used in only one meal. At the bottom, a short CHECK FIRST list of things I probably already have.

Dinner tonight. Help me decide fast. Minutes I have: [how long until it needs to be on the table] In the fridge or cupboard: [three or four things — do not make me list everything] Eating: [how many people, and anyone difficult] Effort available: [standing at the hob is fine / one pan only / I am done in] Give me three options, not one. One line each: what it is, how long, and what I would have to go out for, if anything. Rules: 1. Nothing that needs an ingredient I did not mention unless it is salt, oil, or a basic spice. 2. At least one option must need no shopping at all. 3. No recipe. Just the decision. I will ask for the method if I pick it. Then wait. Do not give me the recipe until I choose.

Dinner tonight from what is about to go off. Work backwards from my ingredients. Going off first: [the things with a day or two left] Also in there: [everything else that is open or half-used] Cupboard basics I definitely have: [rice, pasta, tins, whatever is true] People: [how many] Minutes I have: [how long] We do not eat: [allergies and dislikes] Give me two options, not one. Rules: 1. Both must use everything on the going off first line. That is the whole point. 2. Nothing I have to go out and buy. 3. Tell me honestly if something on the list is past using rather than working it in. 4. One line each, no recipe. I will ask for the method once I pick. If the two options would taste bad, say so and tell me what the least-bad version is instead.

Plan dinners from what I already have. I want to shop as little as possible. TINS AND JARS: [list] DRY GOODS: [list] FREEZER: [list] NEEDS USING SOON: [the sad drawer list] People: [how many adults and children] Nights I cook: [how many] Time on a normal night: [how many minutes] We do not eat: [allergies and dislikes] Rules, all of them: 1. Everything on the NEEDS USING SOON list gets used, and used in the first two dinners. 2. Assume I have salt, pepper, oil, and basic dried spices. Assume nothing else. 3. For each meal, list separately anything I would have to buy. Keep that total under five items for the whole week. 4. If you cannot fill every night from what I have, give me fewer dinners rather than inventing ingredients. Say how many nights I have covered. One line per meal: what it is, roughly how long, and which of my items it uses up.

Build me a list of 30 dinners I can cook mostly from my cupboard, fridge basics and freezer. What I keep in: [list your tins, dry goods, freezer staples — roughly 15 to 20 things] Always in the fridge: [eggs, butter, cheese, whatever is true for you] People: [how many] We do not eat: [allergies and dislikes] Group the 30 by base: pasta and noodles, rice and grains, tin-based, egg-based. For each one give me a single line: the name, roughly how long it takes, and the two or three fresh items it needs, if any. Rules: 1. Nothing needing an ingredient I did not list, beyond one or two cheap fresh items like an onion, a lemon or a bag of spinach. 2. At least 12 of the 30 need nothing fresh at all. 3. No two dinners in the same group should be near-copies. A different sauce on the same thing is the same thing. 4. Keep every line short enough to scan. This is a reference list, not recipes.

Help me build a 2-week rotating dinner menu. People: [how many adults and children] Nights I cook: [how many per week] Time on a normal night: [how many minutes] We do not eat: [allergies, dislikes, anything that starts an argument] Meals that already work here: [list your 3 or 4 anchors] Structure it as 14 slots across two weeks: - 4 ANCHORS: use the meals I listed, once each per fortnight - 6 ROTATORS: suggest these. Dependable, not adventurous - 2 WILDCARDS: leave these blank. Do not fill them - 2 NIGHTS OFF: leave these blank too Rules: 1. No main protein appears more than twice across the fortnight. 2. Spread the anchors out. Never two in a row. 3. At least four of the fourteen are under 25 minutes. 4. The rotators should share ingredients with each other where sensible, so one shop covers both weeks. Give me the fortnight as a simple two-week list. Then list, separately, the ten meals it is built from.

We have eaten these in the last two weeks, so do not repeat any of them: [paste last week's list and the one before] Also avoid anything that is a near-copy of those — a different sauce on the same thing does not count as different.

Two changes to how you are choosing meals: 1. One of the seven should be something I have probably never cooked. Not difficult, not expensive, and no specialist ingredients — just unfamiliar. Tell me in one line why you picked it. 2. For the rest, do not default to the most common version of a meal. If you are going to suggest a pasta dish, do not make it bolognese. Keep every other rule exactly as it was.

Plan a week of dinners for a family of four on a tight budget. Nights I cook: [how many] Time on a normal night: [how many minutes] We do not eat: [allergies, dislikes, anything that starts an argument] Ages of the children: [so portions and fussiness are realistic] Already in the cupboard: [three or four things to use up] Build the week around these rules, all of them: 1. Two dinners must be built on pulses, beans or eggs rather than meat. Make them dinners people look forward to, not a punishment. 2. One protein must be bought once and used in two different dinners. Say which two and how it splits. 3. Use frozen vegetables wherever fresh is not clearly better. 4. No ingredient bought for one meal only, unless it is under about a pound. 5. Nothing needing a specialist shop. One line per meal: what it is, roughly how long, and what it costs to feed four — an approximate range is fine. At the end, list the three most expensive items on the shopping list, so I can see where the money went.

Plan a week of dinners with a hard grocery budget. Budget for the week: [your number and currency] People: [how many adults and children] Nights I cook: [how many] Time on a normal night: [how many minutes] We do not eat: [allergies and dislikes] Already have: [three or four things to use up] Where I shop: [supermarket type — budget chain, mid-range, whatever is true] Rules, all of them: 1. One protein is bought once and used across two dinners. 2. At least two dinners are built on pulses, beans or eggs, and they should be good rather than dutiful. 3. Buy the shop's own basic version of anything I use constantly — rice, pasta, tins, oil. 4. One dinner is deliberately made in a double batch, so a second night needs no new shopping. Say which. 5. Nothing bought for a single meal unless it is very cheap. Give me the week as one line per meal. Then give me the shopping list grouped by aisle, with an estimated cost beside each line and a total at the bottom. If the total is over budget, do not quietly hand it to me. Say by how much, and tell me the two cheapest changes that would bring it under.

Plan a week of higher-protein meals for me. People: [how many, and whether they all want this or just me] Rough protein target per meal: [your number, or "just make each meal protein-forward" if you do not have one] Proteins I would happily eat again: [list five or six] Nights I cook: [how many] Time on a normal night: [how many minutes] We do not eat: [allergies and dislikes] Nights that have to be fast: [which ones, and how many minutes] Rules, all of them: 1. Use only the proteins on my list. If you want to add one, ask first rather than assuming. 2. No protein appears more than twice in the week. 3. Cover breakfast and lunch too, briefly. One line each, and they should be repeatable rather than different every day. 4. Beside each meal, show the approximate protein per serving and roughly where it comes from — for example, 30g, mostly from the lentils and yoghurt. 5. Do not use protein powder or bars unless I have listed them. If a meal does not reach the target, say so rather than rounding up. Tell me what would fix it.

Plan a 90-minute Sunday prep session for me. I want components I can combine, not finished meals in boxes. People: [how many] Dinners it needs to cover: [how many nights] Oven space: [one shelf / two shelves / a small oven] Hob rings that work: [how many] Containers I have: [roughly how many, and what size] We do not eat: [allergies and dislikes] Already in: [three or four things to use up] Give me the session as a TIMELINE, minute by minute, not as a list of recipes. Rules, all of them: 1. The oven and hob must be working from the first ten minutes. Nothing goes in at minute 50. 2. Never more than two things needing my hands at the same time. 3. Build in the cooling time before packing. Do not pretend it takes no minutes. 4. Do not exceed my oven space or my hob rings at any point in the timeline. Check this before you answer. 5. Everything must keep at least four days in the fridge, or say clearly which item does not. At the end, list what I will have made, and give me five different dinners I can assemble from those components across the week.

Plan an afternoon of batch cooking that fills my freezer with about 10 meals. People per meal: [how many, and note if you sometimes eat alone] Freezer space: [a drawer / a shelf / a whole freezer] Oven shelves: [how many] and hob rings: [how many] Time I have: [how many hours] We do not eat: [allergies and dislikes] Containers or bags: [what you actually own] Rules, all of them: 1. Everything must genuinely freeze and reheat well. If a dish only half works frozen, leave it out rather than including it with a caveat. 2. Base the 10 meals on no more than 5 or 6 core ingredients bought in bulk, so this is one shop and not ten. 3. Portion sizes: [say what you want here — single portions, two, family size, or a mix]. 4. Give me the afternoon as a timeline, with the oven and hob busy from the start. 5. Tell me for each meal how to reheat it, and whether it needs thawing first or goes in from frozen. At the end, give me a short list of what to write on each bag.

Build me a packed lunch system for [how many] children, ages [ages]. They will not eat: [be specific — this matters more than anything else here] Things they reliably do eat: [list what you know works] School rules: [nut free, no sweets, whatever applies] Fridge or no fridge at school: [and whether an ice pack is realistic] Morning time available: [minutes, honestly] Structure it as four slots: ANCHOR, CRUNCH, FRUIT, SAFETY NET. Give me: - 5 anchors that rotate across a fortnight - 3 crunch options - 3 fruit options - 1 safety net, the same every single day Rules: 1. Every anchor must survive four hours without refrigeration, or say clearly which needs an ice pack. 2. At least two anchors must be assembled from last night's dinner rather than made from scratch. 3. Nothing that takes more than 4 minutes to put together in the morning. 4. Nothing needing a special container I have not mentioned. 5. Do not suggest anything on the will-not-eat list, including as a hidden ingredient. At the end, tell me what I can prepare on Sunday that makes the weekday mornings shorter.

Plan a week of dinners for a household that includes a picky eater. People: [how many adults and children, and ages] Will not eat: [be as specific as you can — textures, colours, things touching, particular foods] Reliably eaten: [the foods you are confident about] Nights I cook: [how many] Time on a normal night: [how many minutes] Rules, all of them: 1. Every dinner must be servable deconstructed — the child can have the components separately and the adults can have it mixed. One pan, two presentations. If a meal cannot do this, do not include it. 2. Every plate includes at least one thing from my reliably eaten list, served alongside rather than afterwards. 3. Introduce no more than two unfamiliar foods across the whole week, in small amounts beside the rest of the plate. 4. Do not hide vegetables in sauces without telling me which meals do it and what is in them. 5. Do not suggest strategies for making the child eat. I am planning meals, not managing the table. One line per meal: what it is, how it deconstructs, and which reliable food is on the plate.

Plan a week of dinners around after-school activities. Describe the evenings first and I will tell you what is wrong. People: [how many adults and children, and ages] My week, night by night: Monday: [what happens, and between which times] Tuesday: [same] Wednesday: [same] Thursday: [same] Friday: [same] We do not eat: [allergies and dislikes] For each night, first tell me which of these four shapes fits, then the meal: - ONE PAN: goes in the oven, no attention until it comes out - ASSEMBLE ONLY: nothing cooked at the point of eating - MADE AHEAD: cooked at the weekend, reheated - STAGGERED: two sittings, same food Rules, all of them: 1. On any night with a fixed time in it, active cooking time must be under 10 minutes. Not total time — active time, where I am standing in the kitchen. 2. Say which nights need something done at the weekend, and what. 3. At least one night must be eatable in two sittings without getting worse. 4. Assume there is no time to shop mid-week. 5. If a night genuinely has no room for dinner, say so and suggest what to eat in the car instead of pretending. One line per night: the shape, the meal, active minutes, and anything to do in advance.

Help me plan the coming week. I will paste a messy list; do not tidy it up. MY LIST: [paste everything on your mind, unsorted] Days already committed: [how many, and to what] Hours I actually control: [a rough number] Interruptions I should assume: [children, on-call, commute, whatever is true] Do this in order: 1. Group my list into MUST HAPPEN this week / WOULD BE GOOD / SOMEDAY. Move anything vague into someday and say why it went there. 2. From MUST HAPPEN, name the THREE that would make the week feel handled. One line each on why. 3. For each of the three, say roughly how long it needs, and whether it can be done in interrupted chunks or needs a clear run. 4. Tell me which one to drop first if the week goes wrong, and why that one. Do not give me a schedule. I will place them myself. Be honest: if the must-happen list clearly does not fit the hours I said I have, say so plainly rather than making it fit.

Help me plan the coming week. I will paste a messy list; do not tidy it up. MY LIST: [paste everything on your mind, unsorted] Days already committed: [how many, and to what] Hours I actually control: [a rough number, minus a third] Interruptions I should assume: [children, on-call, commute, whatever is true] Do this in order: 1. Group my list into MUST HAPPEN this week / WOULD BE GOOD / SOMEDAY. Move anything vague into someday and say why it went there. 2. From MUST HAPPEN, name the THREE that would make the week feel handled. One line each on why. 3. For each of the three, say roughly how long it needs, and whether it can be done in interrupted chunks or needs a clear run. 4. Tell me which one to drop first if the week goes wrong, and why that one. Do not give me a schedule. I will place them myself. Be honest: if the must-happen list clearly does not fit the hours I said I have, say so plainly rather than making it fit.

I want a calm preview of my week, not a productivity plan. Keep this short. My week: [read your calendar out — meetings, commitments, anything fixed] The thing I am least looking forward to: [one sentence, or "not sure" if you cannot name it] Something I would like to do this week: [anything, however small] Do three things: 1. Tell me plainly how full this week is compared with a normal one. If it is ordinary, say so. 2. Take the thing I am dreading and help me make it smaller: what is the actual worst realistic outcome, and what is one thing that would make it slightly easier? One short paragraph, no pep talk. 3. Suggest where the thing I want to do could actually fit, given what is already in the week. Do not give me a schedule, a morning routine, or advice about productivity. Do not tell me to reframe my mindset.

Help me design a morning routine I will actually keep. Be realistic rather than aspirational. My mornings: [what actually happens, honestly — who else is here, what time things start] Minutes I genuinely have: [a number, before anyone else needs me] What already happens every morning without fail: [kettle, shower, school run, sitting at the desk] What I want the routine to do for me: [wake up properly / feel less rushed / start work with a clear head / something else] Things I have tried and dropped: [be specific — this matters more than what I want] Rules: 1. Exactly three things. If you think of a fourth, tell me which of the three it would replace. 2. Attach the routine to something that already happens, not to a clock time. 3. Fix the order and put the least appealing one second. 4. Give me a TWO-MINUTE VERSION: which single one I do on a morning that has already gone wrong. 5. Nothing that needs equipment, an app, or getting up earlier. For each of the three, one line on why it earns its place. If something I said I want is not realistic in the minutes I have, say so.

Help me design a ten-minute evening routine whose only job is making tomorrow morning easier. My mornings go wrong because: [be specific — lost things, no breakfast decided, everyone late, no idea what the day holds] Who else is in the house in the morning: [and how much they depend on me] When my evening actually has ten free minutes: [after bedtime / before the news / not until 10pm] What I will not do: [be honest — no meal prep, no journalling, no tidying the whole kitchen] Give me FOUR things, each under three minutes, that directly remove one of my morning problems. Rules: 1. Every item must be traceable to a specific morning problem I listed. Say which one it fixes. 2. Nothing that is self-improvement. This routine is logistics, not personal growth. 3. Nothing on my will-not-do list, including in a smaller form. 4. Give me a TWO-MINUTE VERSION for the nights I have nothing left: which one of the four still happens. If one of my morning problems cannot be fixed the night before, say so rather than inventing something.

Help me plan a school morning by working backwards from the door. We have to leave at: [time] People: [ages of the children, and how many adults are here in the morning] What has to happen before we leave: [list it messily — dressing, breakfast, teeth, bags, the dog, whatever] What actually goes wrong most mornings: [be specific and honest] Things that are fixed and cannot move: [bathroom shared at a set time, a bus, an early meeting] Build the plan BACKWARDS from the leaving time, not forwards from the alarm. Rules: 1. Give every step the time it really takes with children, not the time it should take. Assume things go wrong twice. 2. Mark each step as ADULT NEEDED or CHILD CAN DO ALONE. Move anything into the second column that plausibly can be. 3. Put the slack in the last fifteen minutes before the door, not at the start. 4. Name the single bottleneck you can see in what I described, and one change that would remove it. 5. Tell me what to move to the night before. Then give me the children's own list, in the order they do it, in words a [age]-year-old can read. If the morning genuinely does not fit the time available, say so and tell me what the earliest realistic leaving time is.

I am going to paste a messy brain dump. Do not tidy the wording and do not add anything I did not write. MY DUMP: [paste everything, unsorted] Sort every item into exactly one of four buckets: DO - a specific action I could start today DECIDE - not a task yet, because a decision has not been made DELEGATE - somebody else could do this DELETE - no longer true, no longer matters, or was never mine Then do four more things: 1. For anything in DECIDE, write the actual question I need to answer, as a question. 2. Tell me which items are secretly the same task, and what the single task is. 3. Name the three items that have most likely been on this list longest, and say why you think so. 4. From DO, tell me which three would take under ten minutes each. Do not prioritise the list, do not schedule anything, and do not give me a productivity system.

Help me get the invisible work out of my head. Interview me one category at a time. My household: [who lives here, ages of any children, who else I look after] What I am responsible for that nobody else tracks: [a rough sense is fine] Go through these five categories IN ORDER, and do not move on until I say next: 1. ANTICIPATING - things coming up that somebody has to be ready for 2. MONITORING - open questions I am keeping an eye on 3. DECIDING - choices waiting on me that nobody has scheduled 4. REMEMBERING FOR OTHERS - things another adult would need telling to do their part 5. MAINTAINING - the standing background of running a household For each category ask me 3 or 4 short, specific questions to prompt my memory. Ask about the ordinary things people forget they are tracking. Wait for my answer before the next question. At the end, give me the full list back grouped by category, and mark each item as: only I know this / could be shared / could stop being tracked at all. Do not give me advice about delegation, fairness or self-care. Just the list.

Draft a reply to this email. Match the tone of the original — if it is brisk, be brisk. THE EMAIL: [paste it] What I want to happen: [say yes / say no / ask for more time / get one specific piece of information / close this down politely] My relationship to them: [colleague, client, school, someone I do not know] Things I will not say: [anything you are not willing to commit to] Rules: 1. Under 120 words unless the email genuinely needs more. 2. No filler openers. Do not begin with I hope this email finds you well. 3. If I am declining, decline in the first two sentences rather than burying it. 4. Do not agree to anything I did not say I wanted to agree to. Give me the draft only. Do not explain it.

Help me plan a photo declutter that actually finishes. I have tried before and stalled. Roughly how many photos: [a number, even a guess] Where they are: [phone, cloud, an old laptop, several places] How much time I have: [total, and in what sized sessions] What I actually want at the end: [be honest — findable memories / free storage / an album for someone / just less dread] What happened last time I tried: [where it stalled] Rules: 1. Do not plan chronologically from the oldest photo. Start with what is easiest to judge. 2. First pass deletes only categories that need no emotional judgement. Tell me which categories those are for my situation. 3. Give me a DEFINED FINISH LINE that is short of perfect, and say plainly what I am choosing not to do. 4. Fit the plan into the sessions I said I have, with a stopping point in each. 5. No suggestions that need new software or a subscription. Tell me the one decision I should make before starting that would remove the most work.

Help me design a habit tracker I will still be using in two months. Be sceptical rather than encouraging. Habits I want to track: [list them all, even if there are eight] Trackers I have abandoned before: [what they were and roughly when I stopped] How I feel about missing a day: [honestly — it derails me / I shrug / I stop entirely] Paper or screen: [which one I will actually look at] What I want tracking to do for me: [remember / motivate / see a pattern / prove something to myself] Do this: 1. Cut my list to TWO habits and say why those two. Tell me what to do with the rest. 2. Recommend ONE format — grid, chain, or weekly count — based on what I said about missing days. Explain the choice in two lines. 3. For each habit, write the smallest version that still counts, defined so I cannot argue with it on a bad day. 4. Tell me what to do on the day I miss. Be specific. 5. Give me a date, roughly six weeks out, to decide whether to keep tracking at all. If what I described suggests I would be better off not tracking anything, say so and explain why.

Break this goal into a 12-week plan. Be realistic about a normal life, not an ideal one. My goal: [be as specific as you can] Why it matters now: [one line] Hours a week I can genuinely give this: [a real number, minus a third] What I have already done towards it: [anything] What has stopped me before: [be honest] Things that will interrupt: [holidays, term dates, busy periods at work] Rules: 1. Give me ten weekly OUTCOMES, not activities. Each must be something that is either true or not true by Sunday. 2. Leave weeks 6 and 11 completely empty. Do not plan anything in them. 3. Week 1's outcome must be small and completable in one sitting. 4. Say which single week is the riskiest and why. 5. Name what I will have at the end, concretely. Then tell me: what is the smallest version of this goal that would still be worth doing, in case the full version turns out not to fit? If twelve weeks is clearly the wrong length for this goal, say so and suggest the right one.

Help me block out a realistic week. Start from the week I actually had, not an ideal one. Last week, honestly: [walk through it — what was fixed, what moved, where time disappeared] Fixed commitments every week: [work hours, school run, standing meetings, anything immovable] When I am actually sharpest: [morning / after lunch / evening / no idea] What I need deep time for: [the one or two things that need a running start] Who can interrupt me and when: [be realistic] Rules: 1. Mark every part of the week as DEEP, SHALLOW or OTHER PEOPLE'S. Use wide bands, not hour-by-hour slots. 2. Do not give me more than FOUR deep blocks. If my week does not support four, give me fewer and say so. 3. Put deep blocks where I said I am sharpest, not where they fit tidily. 4. Tell me how many genuinely controllable hours this week contains, as a number. 5. Name the block most likely to be lost first, and what to do when it goes. Do not schedule specific tasks into the blocks. I will do that weekly.

Help me plan a working day with young children at home. Assume interruptions rather than planning around them. Children: [ages, and who else is here] When interruptions are least likely: [nap, early morning, school hours, after a meal] What I need to get done: [list it, including the difficult things] Hours I am nominally working: [and how real that number is] What usually goes wrong: [be specific] Rules: 1. Sort my tasks by INTERRUPTION COST — expensive to restart, or cheap to restart. Not by importance. 2. Give me exactly ONE defended block, placed where I said interruption is least likely. Say what to do if it is lost. 3. Everything else goes in interruptible time. Do not apologise for that. 4. Tell me which of my tasks should not be attempted on a day like this at all, and when to do them instead. 5. Give me a two-line restart routine for coming back after an interruption. Do not suggest getting up at 5am, and do not suggest more childcare than I mentioned.