Is there a LLM/ChatGPT tuned to help with weekly meal planning that doesn’t suck? Why not?
As a home cook, I’d like to get a weekly meal plan for dinner plus a shopping list focused on my interests, so I can use it for inspiration.
This seems like a really good LLM application:
- it doesn’t have to be factual
- huge corpus of data to work from (recipies, meal plans)
- can tune to suit my (or a users) taste
- ideally it cood avoid repeats (by knowing what it suggested last week)
And, so far the ones I’ve found seem… Underwhelming. Has anybody found somethig good? Ideas about why not?
I actually use GPT-3.5 (the free one) for my meal planning, GPT-4 seemed like it was smarter than it needed to be and it works pretty well - Claude should also work. The trick with LLMs, as always, is to avoid treating them like people and treat them more like a tool that will do exactly what you ask of them. So for instance, instead of “What should I eat for dinner?” (which implies personality, desires, and preferences and can throw it off), you should ask “List meals I can make using (ingredients) and other common ingredients” and then “Write a recipe for (option)” which are both mostly objective questions. You can ask for a particular style, culture, etc too. Also keep in mind its limits, it knows cooking from ingesting millions of cooking blog posts, so it won’t necessarily know exact proportions or unusual recipes/ingredients/combinations.
I don’t know about a specific one, but i tried via Bing with OK results. It mostly pulled from one source that had 72 recipes, and then a couple from sources it didn’t link to in the body. There were links to the sites used at the bottom, but you would have to search for the specific recipes.