# Plan meals around the pantry

Reduce avoidable food purchases with a realistic meal plan.

Canonical page: https://agentsavings.vercel.app/tasks/plan-meals-around-the-pantry

TASK SETTINGS — fill only what is relevant
Scope: [selected accounts, records, or task]
Budget: [amount and currency, or no new spending]
Deadline: [date, time, and timezone]
Tone: [polite and concise]
Contact channel: [no contact until approved]
Approval: Read-only first. Ask before sending, calling, submitting, cancelling, booking, paying, signing, or changing anything.

Reduce avoidable food purchases with a realistic meal plan.

Use only the accounts and materials I authorize. Start with: the food I say is available, quantities, days to plan, cooking time, dietary restrictions and grocery budget.

Propose meals that share ingredients and use perishables sensibly. Verify ingredient lists for recipes and clearly mark substitutions. Produce quantities appropriate to the household rather than oversized bulk buys. Include leftover plans and a shopping list divided into required and optional items.

Work read-only and prepare drafts first. Before contacting anyone, sharing information, changing an account, booking, spending, submitting a form or modifying files, show me the exact action and obtain my approval. Do not infer medical dietary advice, assume food is safe from an old date alone or place a grocery order.

Verify that your tools actually support the requested work. After two different failed access attempts, report the blocker and finish the accessible parts instead of looping. Never invent an action, source, availability or confirmation.

Return: a meal schedule, ingredient-use map, practical preparation order and budget-conscious shopping list for review. Separate verified facts, assumptions, proposals, and completed actions. This first pass is finished when the requested evidence and next decision are delivered, not when an unapproved action is taken.

[Shared operating rules](https://agentsavings.vercel.app/rules.md)