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Ask for the week before recommending the meals
Recommendations get much better when the system learns the number of meals, people, and actual calendar slots first.
A meal planner can show hundreds of recipes and still make planning feel like work. The useful order is the opposite: first ask what the week looks like. How many dinners are needed? Which days? How many people? Any lunch slots or unusual days?
Only then should recipes enter the room. That small change turns a catalogue into a recommendation system because every suggestion has somewhere to go. This pattern travels well beyond food: gather the shape of the decision before offering the options.
Context: Reusable prompt from this candidate
Before recommending anything, ask me for the minimum planning context: the number of slots, their dates or labels, the type of each slot, the number of people, and any hard constraints. Summarize those constraints back to me, then recommend options that fit them. Do not fill missing details by guessing.