Prompt Library

Real, copy-paste prompts you can run inside any AI client connected to Surprise Chef. Each one has a plain-English explanation of what it does and which tools it uses under the hood.

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.

What can I cook tonight with what I already have?

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

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.

Estimate the grocery cost of this week's plan

Know what the week will cost at Coles before you walk into the store.

Family Profiles

Check a recipe against my family's dietary restrictions

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

Suggest a meal everyone can eat — including the picky one

Find common ground between adults, kids, and toddlers without cooking three different dinners.

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.

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.

Save a cookbook page as a smart recipe

Photograph a printed recipe and turn it into a structured smart card with mise en place, parallel tracks, and timers.

Pantry

Run a conversational pantry audit

Walk through your pantry category by category — let the AI ask the questions and update your stock.

Food History

Find a recipe like that thing we had three weeks ago

Search your food history when you can't remember the name but you remember the meal.

Recipe Scaling

Scale a recipe up or down

Convert serving sizes without doing the maths in your head.

Your AI kitchen brain

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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