cook.md

Prompt library

CookBot is a general-purpose assistant that knows Cooklang and how to work with your files. Here are prompts that work well, grouped by what you're trying to do. Open CookBot in Cook Editor, share the recipes or menus you want it to use, and ask.

Plan meals & occasions

Plan three days of dinners for two — quick on weeknights.

Drafts a .menu linking recipes across the days, plus a combined shopping list.

Suggest a batch-cooking plan I can make on Sunday for the week.

Proposes make-ahead recipes and a prep order, written to a .menu.

Create a picnic plan for six people.

Builds a menu of transportable dishes and a packing / shopping list.

Create a Christmas dinner plan with a vegetarian main option.

Drafts a full-occasion menu with timings and a shopping list.

Cook with what you have

I have chicken thighs, spinach, and feta — what can I make this week?

Reads the recipes you share and suggests matches (or drafts one) around what you have.

How do I cook this if I don't have buttermilk?

Suggests a substitution for the shared recipe and offers the edit as a diff.

Discover & decide

Suggest a recipe I'd like based on what I cook most.

Recommends from the patterns in your collection.

Find a high-rated recipe for a weeknight curry.

Surfaces top-rated matches from your recipes.

Suggest healthy diet tips for the meals I've planned this week.

Reviews your .menu and offers adjustments.

Reports & nutrition

The numbers come from measured laboratory data (USDA and other reference sources) — not guessed by the AI. Every nutrition report shows its sources and a confidence note, so you can see where each figure came from.

What are the calories and macros in this recipe?

Renders a nutrition report — calories, protein, fat, carbs — from the Cook nutrition service, with sources and a confidence note.

Is my week nutritionally balanced — enough of every vitamin and mineral?

Aggregates micronutrients across your .menu (iron, calcium, vitamin D, B12, folate…), shows each as a % of its reference intake, and flags the gaps.

Summarise the nutrition across this week's plan — averages per day, with % daily value.

Aggregates the macros over your .menu and shows daily averages against reference intakes.

Check this plan hits 2,000 kcal and at least 75g protein a day, with saturated fat under 20g.

Runs pass/fail checks against the targets you set and gives a "3 of 4 passed" summary.

Flag any recipe in my plan with nuts, shellfish, or dairy.

Scans the plan's ingredients against your exclusions and lists every match, category-aware.

My week is below 35% protein — adjust the plan until it passes.

Reads the report, swaps recipes or ingredients as diffs you approve, and re-checks until the target is met.

What will this week's shopping cost, and where can I trim it?

Renders a cost report from your own prices (a local db/ folder) and suggests cheaper swaps.

Save this nutrition report as a template I can re-run every week.

Writes a .jinja report template into your folder as a diff you approve, then re-runnable from the editor.

Shop smarter

Analyse my shopping list for cost optimisation.

Reads the list or menu and proposes cheaper swaps and bulk buys.

Organise your collection

Convert these recipes to metric units.

Rewrites quantities as diffs you approve.

Tag every recipe in my collection with cuisine and meal-type tags.

Proposes tag additions per file, each as a diff you approve.

CookBot is included with Cook Pro. New to it? Start with the overview, or see the prompts in action: plan a week of dinners with AI.