How to Build a Meal Prep Grocery List from Macros and Pantry
Grocery lists invent deal prices. Items only from the macro gap.
The matching generator is the Meal Prep Grocery List from Macros and Pantry (No Invented Prices) (Meal Prep Grocery List From Macros And Pantry No Invented Prices) prompt. Browse related cards in the PromptDig library (Browse more prompts). When a filled run survives, share the version you actually use (Share a prompt).
Subtract pantry before shopping
Build a meal-prep grocery list from macros and pantry items. Never invent prices, allergens beyond Inputs, or medical claims. Start by filling Inputs, not by asking the model to remember last week's run. If a field is blank, write NONE or NOT IN INPUTS and leave it blank through Generate. The card is built so the model cannot honestly invent a number, owner, URL, or command that you did not paste.
Paste these fields before you hit run:
Macro targets and meals count: [Macros]
Pantry already owned: [Pantry]
Allergies/avoid list: [Avoid]
Store preference I lock (or UNKNOWN): [Store]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
What I must never invent: [Never]
Output format: [Format]
Language: [Lang]
Max grocery lines: [Max]
That inventory is the honesty ledger. Anything that does not appear there is forbidden in the draft. If you catch yourself adding a nice-to-have after the run, you are no longer using the card. You are ghostwriting. Put the extra fact in Inputs and run again.
Honor the avoid list strictly
Generate is numbered on purpose. Do not skip a step because the first paragraph looked done. The early steps exist to stop later prose from smuggling claims.
Walk the Generate list in order:
- Honesty ledger: Macros, Pantry count, Avoid, Store, Lang, Max. Forbidden: invented prices, invented allergens clearance, medical cure claims.
- Need map: nutrients/meals vs Pantry coverage.
- Grocery list: up to Max lines. Items only justified by Macros-Pantry gap. No prices.
- Prep outline: high-level steps without medical advice.
- Refuse list: invented dollar totals, invented organic certifications, invented lab results.
- Diff notes: Banned/Never cuts.
- Not-medical banner; honor Avoid strictly.
- Compliance pass: Banned/Never hits. Line count vs Max. Gaps list of five. Format as Format.
If a step asks for a version lock, quote the version from Inputs in the output. If a step asks for a refuse list, keep the refuse list in the published artifact, not in a sidebar you delete. Reviewers should see what the model was not allowed to do.
Leave calories UNKNOWN if blank
Most failures are the same shape: a missing field gets a confident fill. A conversion rate appears. A Gradle task appears. A flash point appears. A caption appears on a job that asked for slide text only. Your review is to search the draft for numbers, names, and commands, then grep Inputs. No match means cut.
Honor the constraints as hard stops, not vibes:
- Grocery list from Macros+Pantry only. Not clinical nutrition care.
- Never invent prices, allergens beyond Avoid, or medical claims.
- Honor Max lines.
- No emojis.
When the card says not legal advice, not certification, not an exam dump, or not a caption engine, that sentence belongs at the top of the output. Deleting it to look more finished is how you inherit risk.
Keep the not-medical banner
Finish with the compliance pass the prompt already asks for. Quote the banned-word hits. Cut them. Print character counts when the job has a cap. Print word counts when the job has a budget. List gaps as gaps. Five missing facts are more useful than one smooth paragraph.
Tags on the card (meal prep grocery list, no invented prices, macros pantry grocery) are a reminder of the job shape, not an invitation to wander into a neighboring cluster. If you need a different surface, open a different PromptDig card rather than stretching this one.
Fill the card, then run
Replace every bracket. Run on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Read the ledger first, then the artifact. If the model invents a commit, KPI, DOI, PEL, bid, or logo, discard the run. Tighten Inputs. Run again. Share the filled card that survived, not the first draft that sounded done.