Set up once — budget, goals, food rules, favourite recipes all locked in. Type "plan" every Sunday. A complete week of real, additive-free dinners and a grocery list in seconds.
Meal planning is relentless. It requires careful thinking, real ingredients, and sometimes extraordinary willpower at 5pm on a Thursday with tired kids and an empty fridge. The Family Dinner Method pays homage to the vast number of daily decisions that parents navigate. We built this so dinner isn't one more. Because a table where everyone eats well isn't just food. It's connection. It's a system. It's the the family dinner method, every week.
By the time 5pm hits, you've already made hundreds of decisions. Deciding what to feed your family shouldn't be one more. But it always is.
Every tier is a complete product. Each one naturally leads to the next when you're ready for more.
Meal OS runs inside Claude.ai — free to access in your browser. The free Claude plan works to test it. Claude Pro (US$20/mo) gives full Projects access and is recommended for regular use. Claude is separate from Meal OS.
No more blowing the budget on a Tuesday because you didn't know what else to buy. Meal OS plans your week around your exact number — and tells you when something runs over before you get to the checkout.
The salmon was expensive. You needed to restock the pantry. You bought for a recipe you'll use once. The plan looked good on paper and fell apart at the register. Every single week.
Whether you want to lose weight, eat more protein, or just stop reaching for junk on Thursday night — your goal is part of the system. Every meal the system plans is chosen to support it.
You have the goal. You have the intention. But the plan runs out, the fridge runs out, and willpower at 6pm with tired kids doesn't win. You need a system that holds the goal in place — not another week of good intentions.
You define your whole foods rules once. The system enforces them on every plan, every week. No checking labels. No second-guessing. No accidentally buying a product full of numbers.
You know the difference between real food and a flavour sachet. But when you're tired and there's nothing planned, the packet is right there. Most recipe suggestions are built around processed shortcuts. Checking every ingredient yourself, every week, is a job in itself.
Your saved RecipeTin Eats, your Donna Hay dog-eared pages, your family favourites — they go into the system once. Every plan pulls from them first. You'll finally cook the recipes you actually love.
You've saved hundreds of recipes. Your bookmarks are full. Your Notion has a whole folder. But when Sunday comes and you need to plan, the saved recipes may as well not exist. You end up defaulting to the same rotation you've been cooking for years.
Meal OS runs inside Claude — a free AI tool you access in your browser. No new app to download. No separate subscription to manage. It learns your household once and takes the thinking off your plate from there.
Our guided setup walks you through your budget, goals, food rules, favourite creators, schedule, and cooking reality. About 5 minutes. Generates your personalised system prompt automatically.
~5 min, one time onlyCreate a free Claude project and paste your system prompt into Project Instructions. Claude permanently knows your household — budget, goals, food rules, recipe library, and schedule. Nothing to re-enter each week.
claude.ai — free to startA full week of dinners — on your budget, for your goals, with real ingredients, from your trusted recipes — with a categorised grocery list. Before your coffee goes cold.
plan · swap · leftoversplan light week
WEEK OF THIS WEEK — Light week (high protein, more veg) MON — Lemon Herb Baked Chicken Thighs + Roasted Broccolini High protein · whole foods · 30 min · soccer pickup-safe → Chicken thighs, broccolini, lemon, garlic, olive oil Source: your library TUE — Thai Beef Salad High protein · 25 min · uses Monday's leftover herbs → Grass-fed beef mince, wombok, cucumber, lime, fish sauce Source: RecipeTin Eats (Nagi) WED — One-Pan Salmon + Asparagus + Cherry Tomatoes Omega-3 · whole foods · 20 min → Salmon fillets, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, capers, lemon THU — Leftover Chicken Soup (uses Monday's batch) Low cal · high fibre · 15 min active → Leftover chicken, zucchini, carrot, celery, bone broth Source: your library — Mum's chicken soup FRI — Homemade pizza night GROCERY LIST Produce: Broccolini 2 bunches · Asparagus 250g · Cherry tomatoes 400g Wombok 1/2 head · Cucumber 2 · Zucchini 2 · Carrot 3 · Lime 4 · Lemon 4 Meat & Fish: Chicken thighs 1.2kg · Beef mince 500g · Salmon 4 x 150g Check pantry first: olive oil, fish sauce, garlic, capers, bone broth Est. total: ~$128 — within your $150 budget ✓
budget swap
Salmon (Wed) is your most expensive item at ~$28. Swapping for: WED — Tuna + White Bean Salad High protein · whole foods · 10 min · no cook → Canned tuna in olive oil, white beans, red onion, lemon, parsley Saves ~$22 · new est. total ~$106 ✓
"My $130 budget has not gone over once since I set this up. I used to spend $200+ because I'd panic buy without a plan. That stress is completely gone."
"I'm down 6kg in 3 months and I haven't counted a single calorie. The system just plans high protein meals and I stopped reaching for junk on Thursday because there's always something good ready."
"I added my RecipeTin Eats saves and it uses them every week. I'm finally actually cooking those recipes. No packet sauces anywhere — the system just knows not to suggest them."
Set it up once. Type one word every week. Eat well, spend less, and stop deciding what's for dinner.