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Recipe Meal Planner

Example prompt: "Plan 5 weeknight dinners for 2 people, vegetarian, under 30 minutes each. Find recipes online and create a meal plan with a combined shopping list in Google Docs."

How to automate meal planning with GloriaMundo

The Problem

Deciding what to cook each week is a small task that consumes a surprising amount of mental energy. You have to think about dietary requirements, cooking time, variety, and what ingredients you already have — and then find actual recipes that meet all those criteria. Most people end up cycling through the same handful of meals or spending 30-40 minutes browsing recipe sites every weekend. Once you have picked the recipes, you still need to compile a shopping list from multiple ingredient lists, consolidating duplicates and adjusting quantities. It is not hard work, but it is the kind of low-stakes decision-making that drains willpower and eats into your weekend.

How GloriaMundo Solves It

We build a workflow that you trigger with your preferences — number of meals, servings, dietary requirements, maximum cooking time, and any ingredients you want to use up. A web search step finds recipes matching your criteria from popular recipe sites, pulling titles, ingredients, and cooking times. A sub-agent evaluates the search results, selects the best combination of recipes for variety and ingredient overlap (so your shopping list is efficient), and compiles the full meal plan. An LLM step writes the structured meal plan — each day with its recipe name, cooking time, and brief instructions — followed by a consolidated shopping list with quantities adjusted for servings and duplicates merged. Finally, an integration step creates a Google Doc with the meal plan and shopping list, formatted for easy reading on your phone at the shops. Glass Box preview shows you the selected recipes, the meal plan, and the shopping list before the document is created.

Example Workflow Steps

  1. Trigger (manual): You specify your preferences — 5 dinners, 2 people, vegetarian, under 30 minutes each.
  2. Step 1 (web_search): Search for vegetarian recipes under 30 minutes from popular recipe sites, pulling titles, ingredients, cooking times, and source links.
  3. Step 2 (sub_agent): Evaluate the recipe options, select 5 that offer good variety while sharing common ingredients where possible, and compile the initial meal plan.
  4. Step 3 (llm): Write a structured meal plan with one recipe per day, including recipe name, cooking time, brief method overview, and source link. Generate a consolidated shopping list with merged duplicates and adjusted quantities for 2 servings.
  5. Step 4 (integration): Create a Google Doc with the meal plan and shopping list, formatted cleanly for mobile reading.

Integrations Used

  • Google Docs — destination for the formatted meal plan and shopping list

Who This Is For

Anyone who cooks at home regularly and finds weekly meal planning tedious — whether you are cooking for yourself, a partner, or a family. Particularly useful for people with specific dietary requirements who spend extra time filtering recipes to find ones that actually work.

Time & Cost Saved

Browsing recipes, selecting meals for the week, and compiling a shopping list typically takes 30-45 minutes per week. This workflow reduces it to a quick review of the generated plan, around 5 minutes. Over a year, that is roughly 20-35 hours of meal-planning time saved. The workflow uses web search, sub-agent, LLM, and integration steps, costing a few credits per run.