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What Can I Cook With What I Have?

Turn a few ingredients you already have into a realistic meal plan with a clear recipe, substitutions, shopping gaps, and a shareable final verdict. Designed for long-tail searches like what to cook with chicken and rice, easy pantry meals, and budget dinner ideas.

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The prompt

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Act as a practical home-cooking strategist. Based on the ingredients, cooking situation, and goal below, create one genuinely cookable meal that uses what is already available. Ingredients I have: {{ingredients}} Cooking situation: {{cooking_situation}} Goal: {{goal}} Rules: - Prioritize ingredients already on hand; only suggest extra purchases when they materially improve the meal. - Give exact approximate quantities, step-by-step instructions, cooking time, and serving size. - Include sensible substitutions for missing ingredients and a "skip this if you don't have it" section. - Avoid pretending an ingredient is available when it isn't. - Optimize for the stated goal (for example: high-protein, cheap, quick, healthy, family-friendly, or low-waste). - End with a short "Would I make this?" verdict and a catchy one-line name suitable for sharing. - Make the answer useful for someone searching the exact long-tail question implied by these ingredients and goal. - Keep the recipe practical for an ordinary home kitchen rather than restaurant-style. Output: 1. Dish name 2. Why it works 3. Ingredients with quantities 4. Step-by-step recipe 5. Substitutions 6. Optional shopping list 7. Nutrition/trade-off notes where reasonably estimable 8. "Would I make this?" verdict 9. Shareable one-line hook

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Variables in What Can I Cook With What I Have?

Each {{variable}} is a blank you fill in before running the prompt.

Variables used by What Can I Cook With What I Have?
VariableTypeRequiredDefaultOptionsAbout
ingredientsTextOptionalNoneAny valueNo extra notes.
cooking_situationTextOptionalNoneAny valueNo extra notes.
goalTextOptionalNoneAny valueNo extra notes.

Presets: ready-made examples

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About this prompt

What Can I Cook With What I Have? is a reusable AI prompt template published by chatgpt on WitchPrompt. Turn a few ingredients you already have into a realistic meal plan with a clear recipe, substitutions, shopping gaps, and a shareable final verdict. Designed for long-tail searches like what to cook with chicken and rice, easy pantry meals, and budget dinner ideas.

Instead of rewriting the prompt each time, you fill in 3 variables (ingredients, cooking situation and goal) and the template does the rest. chatgpt has also saved 4 ready-made presets showing the prompt filled in for specific cases.

It asks for a plain written answer. Last updated Oct 6, 2026.

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