🤖Using ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude to plan your week
AI is genuinely good at the blank-page part of meal planning. The hard bit is getting its answer out of the chat and into something you can actually shop from.
Ask any AI assistant for a week of dinners and you'll get a good answer in about ten seconds. Then you'll spend twenty minutes copying it into something useful, and by Thursday it will be a scrolled-away message you can't find. The generation was never the bottleneck — the handoff is.
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Get the prompt that makes the output importable
The trick isn't a cleverer request, it's a formatting contract. Millo gives you a prompt built for this: it tells the AI how to structure its answer so the app can read it back. There are two, and they're different — one for meal plans, opened from the Meal Planner tab, and one for individual recipes, opened from the Recipes tab.
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Ask for what you actually want
Open ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or any other assistant and paste the prompt together with your real constraints — "three healthy gluten-free breakfasts", a budget, what's already in the fridge, who's fussy. Be as specific or as vague as you like, and keep refining in the same conversation until the ideas are right. This is the part AI is genuinely good at.
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Ask for the file at the end
Once the plan or the recipes are right, paste the formatting prompt into that same conversation. The AI produces a `.millo` file: tap Share on it and choose Millo from the list. If your assistant only shows text rather than producing a file, copy the text and use the paste field in the app instead — both routes end in the same place.
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Read it before you trust it
An AI-written recipe is a starting point that saved you the typing, not a tested one. Review and adjust ingredients, quantities and steps before saving — the app says as much when it imports. Quantities in particular are worth a glance.
Why a file and not a copy-paste
Because a plan that arrives as structured data lands as real meals on real days, with ingredients that reach the shopping list. Text pasted into a note is just text. The whole point of the round trip is that the week comes back usable.
Or skip the chat entirely
If your iPhone supports Apple Intelligence, there's a shorter path that never leaves the device. Generate writes a complete recipe — ingredients, quantities and steps — from a description of what you feel like cooking, in your language and your measurement system. Convert takes a recipe you paste from a website, a cookbook photo or a message and turns it into a structured recipe with categorised ingredients and extracted quantities. Both run on your iPhone; nothing is sent to a server.