Plan your week

One sentence. A whole week of dinners.

"5 kid-friendly dinners, mostly chicken or pasta, no nuts, one veg-heavy night." Six seconds later, your meal grid is done. Plus a one-tap "Add ingredients to grocery list" close-out.

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Our Life recipe box with imported recipes
The problem

"What's for dinner?" is the wrong question.

The actual problem isn't a single dinner — it's the cognitive load of seven dinners in a row, factoring in soccer-night, the leftovers from Tuesday, the picky one's no-nut rule, and what's already in the freezer.

Cozi has meal planning, but it's a hand-entered list — same effort as a paper sticky note. FamilyWall is the same. Maple has nothing. We rebuilt it around Claude.

"I want a meal plan, not another text field." — Approximately every parent.
How it works

Type a sentence. We do the rest.

Open the Meals tab, tap "Plan the week." A bottom sheet appears with: a prompt textarea, slot picker (breakfast / lunch / dinner), days picker (3/5/7/14), and nine dietary chips (kid-friendly, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, no-nuts, high-protein, budget-friendly, quick).

You type one sentence. We send it + your dietary tags + your last 14 cooked meals (so we don't repeat) to Claude. The model returns a structured plan; we validate every date, slot, and clamped title before applying it to your grid.

  • Dietary tags are hard filters — vegan = nothing with meat or dairy. Period.
  • "Recently cooked" history means natural rotation, not the same pasta three weeks running
  • Each meal gets an emoji, an estimated-minutes hint, and short notes ("Leo loves this")
  • Re-running overwrites the grid (with a confirm) so iterating is fast
Today screen with tonight's dinner card
The compounding loop

Plan → shop → cook → photograph → rotate.

Each meal connects to the rest of the system:

  • Tonight's dinner card on the Today screen — auto-hides after 8pm
  • "Grocery-shop tonight?" chip that computes a smart Leave by 5:43pm based on your saved origin + nearest pinned store
  • Recipe import — paste a URL or text, Claude extracts the structured recipe (with SSRF protection so we can't be tricked into fetching internal services)
  • Cook-with-kids mode with kid-readable 28px type and smart auto-suggested timers
  • Photo cookbook — snap your result, FIFO-capped at 24 photos per recipe, surfaces on Sunday digest
The numbers

What it costs us. What it saves you.

~$0.003
Per plan-the-week call
6s
Average response time
$0
What you pay (free tier covers 15/mo)

Cozi Gold locks meal planning + ICS export behind $39.99/yr. Maple+ is similar. We ship both in the free tier. The Plus upgrade ($4.99/mo) only kicks in when you want unlimited AI generations or unlimited list shares.

Related features

In the kitchen

Cook-with-kids mode

Kid-readable type, smart auto-timer, photo cookbook at the end.
Claude Vision

Photo-to-events

Snap a flyer. Get 8 calendar entries. Same AI engine, different surface.
Sunday recap

Your week, narrated

Meals cooked + events done = a warm Sunday recap.

Stop staring at the fridge.

Our Life ships unlimited AI meal planning for $4.99/mo, or 15 calls/month free. Cozi charges $40/year for less.

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