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Weekly meal plans with grocery carts

A meal-planning product generates preference-based weekly plans and pushes ingredients into grocery carts.

Agent or tool
Meals You Love
Topic
Shopping
Reported on
Hacker News
Added
2026-10-15

Why it matters

Comparing products, prices and delivery options is slow work for a human and fast work for an agent. Cases like this show agents doing the legwork before anything gets bought. It is one of 65 sightings filed under Shopping on Agent Sightings (number 8 by interest), and one of 1 involving Meals You Love.

How you could try it

Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Meals You Love or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.

Create a weekly vegetarian meal plan under 30 minutes per dinner, reusing ingredients to minimize waste, plus a consolidated shopping list.

Tip: Ask the agent to stop before checkout and show you the final basket, price and delivery date before you confirm.

Source

Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45724229. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.

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