---
type: skill
slug: meal-plan-grocery-list
name: Meal Plan & Grocery List
audience: people
category: Home & Money
schedule: Weekly, Sunday 10:00 AM
setup: 3 minutes
platforms: [Grok Bot, Muse, Dots]
writes_or_sends: Read-only. Never orders or buys groceries; you check out yourself.
version: 1.0.0
updated: 2026-10-31
---

# Meal Plan & Grocery List

> Dinner sorted for the week, and one list for one trip.

- Category: Home & Money
- Schedule: Weekly, Sunday 10:00 AM
- Works with: Grok Bot, Muse, Dots
- Setup time: 3 minutes
- Version: 1.0.0 (updated 2026-10-31)
- Cost: light

## What it does

Meal Plan & Grocery List takes the nightly 'what's for dinner?' off your plate. Each Sunday it plans the week around what you like, what you can't eat, how much time you have on weeknights and what's already in the cupboard, and it reuses ingredients so little goes to waste. Then it turns the plan into one grocery list, grouped by aisle, with a rough total against your budget. It never orders: if you want a cart filled, it hands the list to a grocery skill and you check out yourself.

## What you get

- A meal plan table with cooking times
- Shared ingredients so little goes to waste
- One grocery list grouped by aisle, pantry items left off
- An estimated total against your budget, with swaps if it's over
- An optional hand-off to a grocery skill you check out yourself

## Data it uses

- Assistant memory (your tastes, rules and pantry)
- Web search (recipes and typical prices) (optional)
- A grocery-shopping skill (to fill a cart you check out) (optional)

## Safety

- Writes or sends: Read-only. Never orders or buys groceries; you check out yourself.
- Reads: Your food preferences, dietary rules, budget and pantry list (kept in memory)
- Reads: Public recipe pages and typical grocery prices (search and page reads)
- Cost: Low: ~4 runs a month.
- Warning: Never buys, pays, cancels, returns or sends anything without your explicit OK for that item.
- Warning: It never orders groceries; a grocery skill can fill a cart that you check out yourself.
- Warning: Allergies are treated as hard rules, but check labels yourself. Not dietary or medical advice.

## Install

- SKILL.md: https://botplaza.lol/skills/meal-plan-grocery-list/SKILL.md
- Zip: https://botplaza.lol/downloads/meal-plan-grocery-list.zip
- JSON: https://botplaza.lol/skills/meal-plan-grocery-list.json
- Ready prompt: https://botplaza.lol/api/install?slug=meal-plan-grocery-list&platform=grok (or muse, dots)
- MCP: call install_skill with slug "meal-plan-grocery-list" at https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp

### Grok Bot (verified)

1. Copy skills/meal-plan-grocery-list/SKILL.md (the whole file, including the --- header).
2. Open a one-to-one chat with your Grok Bot and paste the prompt below, with the file where it says.
3. Try it once now: "Run Meal Plan & Grocery List."
4. The routine shows in the Bot's info pane (click the Bot's name in the chat header) under Routines, where you can pause or edit it.

Note: Skills and routines are saved by asking the Bot; no settings to dig through.

### Muse (partially-verified)

1. Copy skills/meal-plan-grocery-list/SKILL.md.
2. Open Muse and paste the prompt below with the file where it says.
3. Try it: "Run Meal Plan & Grocery List." Muse has no skill install for outside skills, so it follows the pasted instructions.
4. Ask Muse to make it a recurring task every Sunday at 10:00 AM. It then shows under the Assistant icon > Upcoming.
5. Muse Code (developer CLI): unzip downloads/meal-plan-grocery-list.zip, run `muse skills validate ./meal-plan-grocery-list` then `muse skills install ./meal-plan-grocery-list --scope user`. Optional: add the BotPlaza connector (https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp) under mcpServers in ~/.config/muse/settings.json.

Note: Recurring tasks and Muse Code skill install are documented by Meta. Installing outside skills in the Muse app is not.

### Dots (partially-verified)

1. Copy skills/meal-plan-grocery-list/SKILL.md.
2. Paste the prompt below into your dot's conversation in ChatGPT, with the file where it says.
3. Wait for the dot to confirm the schedule, time zone and end date.
4. Optional: in ChatGPT, Plugins > + > Add custom MCP server with https://botplaza.lol/api/mcp (no authentication). Dots can use installed plugins, but OpenAI hasn't said whether that includes custom ones.
5. Business, Enterprise, Healthcare and Edu workspaces can also upload downloads/meal-plan-grocery-list.zip under Plugins > Skills > Create > Upload from your computer.

Note: Dots are available on ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise, and are still rolling out. Pasting instructions in and scheduled check-ins are documented.

Page: https://botplaza.lol/skills/meal-plan-grocery-list/