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Shopping list from your recipes

Name the recipes, say how many are eating, ask for the list. Your AI fetches each recipe scaled to that number, adds up what they share and crosses off what you already have.

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Make a shopping list for the baked stuffed pasta shells and the baklava salmon, for five people. Leave out what is in my pantry.
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What happens

  1. Each recipe scaled first. A recipe for ten becomes a recipe for five before anything is added up. A recipe that does not say how many it serves is flagged, not guessed.
  2. Shared ingredients added up. Parsley in two recipes is one line.
  3. Your pantry crossed off. What you told your AI is in the kitchen stays on the list, struck through, so you can check it.
  4. Rounded to what you buy. Five eighths of a cup of mozzarella becomes a bag of grated mozzarella.

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One list, as served

Recipes from 26 October 2026 against the live server, scaled to five. The wording of the agent's replies varies; the recipes are as served and the list is the agent's sum of them.

Raw salmon fillet with lemon wedges, garlic and spring onion
salmon, beforephoto: David B Townsend, Unsplash

You"Make a shopping list for the baked stuffed pasta shells and the baklava salmon, for five people. Leave out what is in my pantry."

Your agent

get_recipe ×2, servings 5 · get_pantry

  • Baked Stuffed Pasta Shells55 min · 5.0 ×122 · scaled from 10 · 11 ingredients
  • Baklava Salmon (Salmon With Honey, Butter, Walnuts, and Mustard)30 min · 5.0 ×279 · scaled from 4 · 10 ingredients
  • Fish
  • 5 salmon fillets
  • Dairy and eggs
  • 450 g ricotta
  • grated mozzarella
  • parmesan
  • 3 eggs
  • Fresh
  • 1 bunch parsley
  • fresh basil
  • 2 limes
  • Cupboard
  • 170 g jumbo pasta shells
  • 1 small jar pasta sauce
  • wholegrain mustard
  • breadcrumbs
  • walnuts
  • Already in
  • butter
  • honey
  • salt and pepper
  • nutmeg
  • garlic powder
  • dried parsley

The shells use dried parsley and the salmon fresh; one bunch of fresh covers both if you would rather not open a jar.

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