Meal Planning & Nutrition Optimizer

Sunday arrives and you still don't know what you're eating this week. You open the fridge, find wilted spinach and three eggs, and order Thai food for the fourth time. Your grocery bill is $400 for a household of two because you buy ingredients for recipes you never cook, and the rest spoils. You told your doctor you were working on your diet six months ago. The gap between intention and execution is a blank meal plan and no system to fill it.

The Meal Planning & Nutrition Optimizer generates a full 7-day meal plan calibrated to your dietary goals (fat loss, muscle gain, maintenance, medical restriction), your weekly budget, and your actual cooking skill level. It produces a consolidated grocery list organized by store section, calculates macros and calories per meal, generates a Sunday batch cooking guide, and gives you a decision script for ordering from restaurants without blowing your targets.

What you get:

• SKILL.md — Full workflow: intake protocol, weekly plan generation, grocery list builder, meal prep guide, macro tracker setup, restaurant ordering guide, and supplement timing template
• LISTING.md — Product page (this file)
• MANIFEST.json — Machine-readable product metadata

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Pricing Rationale

The average household wastes $1,500/year in spoiled groceries (USDA data). One week of planned shopping versus impulse buying typically saves $40–80. This skill pays for itself in under 3 days of use. Registered dietitians charge $100–200 per consultation to produce a meal plan of this specificity.

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Works Great With

• Fitness Programming Engine (#38) — align nutrition to training blocks and recovery days
• Habit Science Engine (#45) — build the Sunday meal prep habit with implementation intentions
• Weekly Life Review System (#47) — embed nutrition adherence tracking into your weekly retrospective

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Version History

• v1.0.0 — Initial release