Prompt template
Meal planner prompt — copy, paste, build
A prompt for a native weekly meal planner — drag recipes onto a 7-day grid, generate a grocery list from the plan, and view per-day macros. Designed to bridge the recipe and grocery prompts cleanly.
The prompt
Build a native iOS and Android meal planner with: (1) a week tab showing a 7-day grid with breakfast, lunch, dinner slots and a "tap to add" affordance per slot, (2) a recipe library tab with search, dietary filters, and a "add to this week" action, (3) a recipe detail with ingredients, steps, prep time, and macro estimates, (4) a grocery list tab auto-generated from the current week's plan, grouped by aisle, with manual additions, (5) a settings screen with default servings and dietary preferences. Use Expo, React Navigation, twrnc for styling, AsyncStorage for plans and recipes, and a clean light-mode design.
Variants
Lite
Build a meal planner with a weekly grid, a small recipe library, and a basic grocery list. Skip macros.
Pro
Build a meal planner with a weekly grid, full recipe library with search and dietary filters, drag-and-drop slot assignment, macro tracking, aisle-grouped grocery export, and a Stripe-wired premium paywall.
What you get
- Expo + React Native project ready for Snack live preview
- 7-day breakfast/lunch/dinner grid
- Recipe library with dietary filters
- Auto-generated grocery list
- Per-recipe macro estimates
- Aisle-grouped shopping export
Screens included
- Week
- Recipe library
- Recipe detail
- Grocery list
- Settings
Why this prompt works in AppGenie
A meal planner stitches three data shapes (plans, recipes, grocery items) into one flow. AppGenie's A4 architect models the joins explicitly so adding a recipe to the week actually updates the grocery list — without you wiring it manually.
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Does the grocery list deduplicate ingredients across recipes?
Yes. The prompt asks for unit-aware merging (e.g. "200g flour" + "100g flour" = "300g flour") and the validator catches missing unit conversions before the preview.
Can I plan more than one week ahead?
Ask "add a horizontal scrollable week selector with four weeks of forward planning." The diff-aware pipeline patches the week tab without touching the recipe library.
Ready to ship a meal planner?
Paste this prompt into AppGenie. The diff-aware multi-agent pipeline produces a real Expo + React Native project you can preview live, iterate in chat, and own end-to-end.