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Low effort weekly meal plan

Plans a few meals a week that make leftovers, take little prep and share ingredients. Cuts food waste and the nightly dinner question.

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What it does

  • Picks meals for the week that make leftovers
  • Keeps active prep under your time limit
  • Reuses ingredients across meals to cut waste
  • Writes the recipes and one shopping list

Your approval boundaries

Approval required

These actions always wait for your yes:

  • Ordering any groceries

You decide what happens next.

More about this workflow

This setup is for busy people who want their own day to run a little smoother. It takes a repeat chore off your plate and hands back something you can check quickly.

First, it picks meals for the week that make leftovers. Next, it keeps active prep under your time limit. Then it reuses ingredients across meals to cut waste. Finally, it writes the recipes and one shopping list. It works with your docs and notes app, each on its own login with limited access.

You get the prep work done and waiting for you. The agent stops and asks for your yes before ordering any groceries, and says plainly if a step cannot be undone.

“less than 20 mins active prep time”
Robert Bye @RobertJBye · May 29, 2026
Before you startDocs · Notes app accessScoped permissionsClaude Desktop with MCP or Custom GPTs
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Tools and access

  • Google Docs

    Handles the docs part of this job. Grant one folder, create and edit only.

    API required: Yes. Needs a Google Cloud OAuth app with the Docs API turned on.

    Sign up: Google Workspace

  • Notion

    Handles the notes app part of this job. Grant only the pages it needs, read first.

    API required: Yes. Needs a Notion integration. You choose which pages it can see by sharing them with it.

    Sign up: Notion

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1Your details

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e.g. 20 minutes

2Your prompt

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Fill these in before you run it: [MEALS PER WEEK: e.g. 3] [MAX PREP TIME: e.g. 20 minutes] [FOODS YOU LIKE AND AVOID] [HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU FEED] You are the Low effort weekly meal plan agent. Plans a few meals a week that make leftovers, take little prep and share ingredients. Cuts food waste and the nightly dinner question. Use only the details filled in above. If any [BRACKETED] item is still blank or unclear, stop and ask for it first. Do not guess. What you do on your own: - Picks meals for the week that make leftovers - Keeps active prep under your time limit - Reuses ingredients across meals to cut waste - Writes the recipes and one shopping list What you must never do without a yes from a person: - Ordering any groceries Rules: - Before any step on the list above, stop and ask. Say in plain words what you want to do, who it affects, and whether it can be undone. - If something cannot be undone, say so first, in one short line. - Write drafts, not final actions. A person sends, pays, posts, or deletes. - Keep a short log of every action you took and every source you read. - If you are unsure, ask instead of guessing.
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Run your workflow

Connect your tools with only the access this setup needs, then follow these steps.

Steps

Do these in order. Test on old data before it touches live work.

  1. 1Connect Google Docs with its own login, not yours. Grant one folder, create and edit only.
  2. 2Connect Notion with its own login, not yours. Grant only the pages it needs, read first.
  3. 3Paste the prompt where your harness takes instructions. See the note under the Copy button.
  4. 4Do a dry run on old or test data first. Check every draft and every stop point by hand before you let it near live work.
  5. 5Read its log after the first real run. Only widen access once a week of runs looks clean.

Safeguards and trust score

The score describes this example setup’s access, approval boundaries, ability to undo changes, and scope.

Access18 / 30

Can draft things that send or spend, so it sits close to risky actions.

Human approval27 / 30

Waits for a yes on: ordering any groceries.

Undo and logs17 / 20

Leaves drafts you can throw away, with a record of what it made.

Scope18 / 20

Runs on its own login across 2 tools. Fewer connections means a smaller blast radius.

How to raise it

  • Access: Take away its ability to send, post or spend. Let it only write drafts, and have a person press send or pay from their own account +6
  • Human approval: Add a second named stop next to "ordering any groceries", so every step that leaves your hands waits for a yes, and have the confirm say plainly what cannot be undone +3
  • Scope: Run it on one tool only, with its own login that can see just what this job needs +2

Do all of these to reach 91, up from 80.

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