Grok Bot Weekly Family Meal Plan Routine
The Weekly meal plan routine is part of The Butler's Meals room. It runs weekly, your plan day on Grok Bot and next week's dinners and missing items. Waits for your yes.
It uses Google Drive, Shopping room. Nothing is sent, paid, or deleted without your approval.
Deciding what's for dinner every night, rebuilding the grocery list every week, and cooking twice for picky eaters.
What the Weekly meal plan routine does
Next week's dinners and missing items. Waits for your yes. It is one of the routines in the Meals room (I plan dinners from what's actually on hand and send the missing items to Shopping.).
- Keeps an On-hand list from your photos of the fridge and pantry, or from what you type.
- Plans the week's dinners using what's on hand first, within your rules.
- Sends missing ingredients to the Shopping list once you approve the plan.
- Puts tonight's dinner, and anything to thaw, in the morning briefing.
The routine instruction
This is the wording from The Butler's Meals room PDF. Square-bracket fields are filled in during setup. Replace the bracketed parts with your own details.
- "Weekly meal plan": every [PLAN DAY]. Propose next week's dinners and the missing-items list. Wait for my yes or changes.
Connectors it needs
- Google Drive (required): Holds the On-hand list, meal plans, and saved recipes.
- Shopping room (recommended): Receives the missing items.
Grok Bot 101 lists Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive as connectors and says you can connect more than one account per service.
How to set it up
- Connect the accounts above from Connect apps.
- Run the job once in chat and correct the output until it's right.
- Ask Grok Bot to save it as a routine at the time you want, and check the instruction and schedule it writes.
- Pause it any time; the changelog (v0.52.0) added pause and resume for routines.
House rules: what it always asks first
- Ask first before any purchase or checkout.
Limits to know
- Allergy rules depend on the information you give. Always check labels yourself.
- No nutrition or medical advice.
Try saying
- "Here's the fridge." (attach a photo)
- "Something quick tonight with what we have."
- "Swap Thursday, we'll be out."
Other routines in the Meals room
- Midweek check (Wednesdays): Swaps if plans changed.
- Morning briefing section (Daily): Tonight's dinner and anything to thaw.
Frequently asked questions
How often does the Weekly meal plan routine run?
By default: weekly, your plan day. You choose the exact time during setup, and each run uses your Grok Bot usage, so fewer runs cost less.
Will the Weekly meal plan routine send or pay anything on its own?
No. The Butler's house rules require your approval before anything is sent, paid, deleted, or shared.
Where does the result show up?
In the Bot's chat, and the relevant items are folded into The Butler's morning briefing.
Sources
Get this set up with a Butler guide
Start Here: Download it. Upload it to Grok. Grok walks you through setup. Every other guide or bundle: Download it. Upload it to your Grok Bot and it walks you through setting up the routines. You approve anything that sends, pays, or deletes. Digital products, no refunds.