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I wanted to get my diet in order, so I asked Perplexity for a nutritionally balanced weekly menu and a shopping list compatible with it and the store I go to, a

• flakeoil 2y ago
  I suppose you could come up with the same result and probably better if you asked this question to yourself instead. I.e. by making a purposeful list in advance instead of just randomly selecting stuff while in the store.
  • fcatalan 2y ago
    The friction was high enough for me to not do it: Coming up with a week-long list of stuff that checks all the boxes: healthy, balanced, non repetitive, feasible in my cooking time, ingredients available in my store and I'll actually eat it... it's not a trivial effort, then condensing it into a shopping list is additional clerical work. This was just refining the prompt a couple times to see if I could get all those aspects considered. Another factor is that having the menus come from an outside source keeps them 'honest', I wouldn't 100% trust myself not to include some of the crap I was precisely trying to get rid of If I made them from scratch The result was surprisingly good... maybe not 100% right, more like 90%, but good enough to overcome that friction.