MCP-First · BYOAI

Use Surprise Chef with your AI

Bring your own AI. Connect Surprise Chef in under two minutes and give Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini persistent memory of your kitchen, family, and food history.

Why MCP-first matters

·No double-billing. You already pay for Claude or ChatGPT. Don't pay a second AI subscription to a meal-planning app.
·One kitchen, many windows. Plan a meal in Claude on the laptop, RSVP for dinner from ChatGPT on your phone — same shared state.
·No vendor lock-in. When the next great AI launches, your kitchen comes with you.
·Real continuity. "What did we eat last week?" actually works, because the food history is on the server, not in a chat thread that got summarised away.

Pick your AI

🟧Live

Claude

First-class MCP support. Listed in the Claude directory.

🟢Live

ChatGPT

Connects via the ChatGPT Apps SDK. Same kitchen, different window.

🔷Untested

Gemini & other MCP clients

Should work via the standard MCP install flow. Let us know how it goes.

Prompts to get you started

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Real, copy-paste prompts you can run inside your AI client once Surprise Chef is connected.

Meal Planning

Plan a week of meals around what's in my pantry

Generate a 7-day meal plan that uses ingredients you already have, respects family dietary restrictions, and minimises grocery spend.

Shopping

Build a shopping list grouped by supermarket aisle

Turn your meal plan into a shopping list sorted the way you actually walk the store.

Meal Planning

What can I cook tonight with what I already have?

Pantry-first dinner suggestions for the nights you don't want to shop.

Family Profiles

Check a recipe against my family's dietary restrictions

Make sure no allergen, intolerance, or strong dislike makes it onto the table.

Recipe Import

Create a new recipe with any AI (no connection needed)

Copy a prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any other AI. It asks you a few clarifying questions, then returns a structured recipe you can paste back into Surprise Chef.

Recipe Import

Tweak a recipe with any AI — including 'this didn't work'

Export a recipe as JSON, paste it to your AI with what you want to change (or what didn't work when you cooked it), and paste the updated JSON back. No connection required.

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Comparison

Connect Surprise Chef to your existing AI in under two minutes. Free, no per-token cost, works inside Claude / ChatGPT / any MCP client.

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