Welcome to the Launch of our brand new AI media company, Smarter Living!
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I’ve taken the same mantra behind that newsletter, and rebranded it to serve a bold new direction that I know you’ll love: AI & Automation that Improves Your Lifestyle.
Inside you’ll find tips, tools, and robots that will help you automate not just areas of your business, but also helps you overcome problems and challenges of day to day life.
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Read time: 4 minutes | Implement time: 5 minutes | Weekly ROI: 10+ hours
Last Sunday at 2pm, I was standing in my kitchen doing that thing where you open the fridge seven times hoping new food magically appears.
DoorDash was calling. Again.
I had just paid my credit card statement in sheer anger: $1,847 in food delivery this month!
For one person….
While I had a fridge full of groceries slowly rotting away.
“This is ridiculous…I can’t keep wasting money like this.”
I wanted to kick this bad habit for good, and start eating healthy. So I finally built the AI tool I'd been dreaming about for years…
THE SMARTER LIVING PERSONAL CHEF - Your Custom AI Meal Planner
I’m going to show you my simple, 12-minute Sunday routine that plans 20+ delicious recipes, saves me over $300/week, and improves my health & vitality.
OH…and it’s an AI tool that actually gets used…unlike most of the other apps out there.
THE RISK OF NOT SOLVING THIS PROBLEM:
Decision fatigue: the daily "what should I eat?" loop
Stupid spending: spending $200-500 weekly on impulse food delivery
Energy crashes: preservatives, trans fats, and quick sugar fixes all lead to that post-meal fatigue
Food wastefulness: the groceries you bought with hope, end up in the trash can a week later
Health decline: all those diets you never stuck to, that feeling of failure, lack of nutrition from poor ingredients, etc…reduces your physical and mental vitality.
Most people hate cooking, especially when its the end of a long day at work. The reason why is because of the decision making and extra brainpower it takes to come up with something you like.
This bot removes the friction between deciding what to eat, and eating it…
All you have to do is show up to your kitchen, prep, cook, and enjoy.
So here’s your options for building a tool to do this for you:
Build a “Basic AI Chef” yourself using the prompts below…or
Use our “Smarter Living Personal Chef” tool that we built just for you.
Option 1: The Basic AI Chef
For those who have the time and want to build a simple bot.
Tools needed: ChatGPT (free)
Step 1 - The Setup (60 seconds)
Sign up for a free ChatGPT account if you haven’t already:
Remember, ChatGPT’s free account has hard limits on how many conversations you can have with their best AI models.
This greatly affects the quality of the tool’s responses.
If you’re going to use AI chat tools consistently, we almost always recommend signing up for the basic monthly subscription plan. You’ll avoid a lot of headaches and save yourself hours over time.
Then start a new ChatGPT conversation, and copy and paste in the following:
Feel free to edit the prompts below to customize the tool for you specific needs
I need help planning meals. First, here's my situation:
- Days needed: [Number]
- Meals: [breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks]
- Dietary restrictions: [allergies, preferences]
- Goals: [high protein, balanced, don't care]Step 2 - The Inventory Dump (90 seconds)
Then add this to the bottom of the prompt:
Here's what I have in my kitchen:
[List everything or describe what you see in fridge/freezer/pantry]
Include: leftovers, condiments, that bag of frozen peas, everything.Step 3 - The Master Prompt (2 minutes)
Next copy and paste this at the bottom:
Using ONLY what I already have (shopping only for critical gaps):
Create a meal plan that:
1. Uses 90% of my existing inventory
2. Requires less than $50 additional groceries
3. Includes prep times under 20 minutes
4. Provides backup meals from current inventory
For each day, give me:
- Meal name and main ingredients
- Which inventory items it uses
- Prep time
- Why it works for that day
Then provide:
- Minimal shopping list (organized by store section)
- Sunday prep schedule (with parallel tasks)
- 3 emergency "panic meals" using only current inventory
Keep it realistic for someone who's exhausted.Step 4 - The Implementation
Set a calendar reminder for: "Weekly Meal Prep”
Use the prompt to plan the weekly meals
Double check the grocery list your bot gave you
Check if you actually need those shopping items
Add each recipe to your calendar or resort back to the chat when you need the recipe.
Option 2: The Smarter Living Personal Chef
Skip trying to build and improve it yourself…
We’ve built a product that we’ve been using every week:
Here's the thing: The basic chef prompt…works…but it's missing our secret sauce.
Our Smarter Living Personal Chef was built with over 100+ hours of testing, and does what the DIY prompt can't:
Confirms your inventory (catches stuff you forgot)
Let’s you approve meals for one day at a time (no full page outputs to read)
Fully adaptable for your dietary needs (swap meals you don't like instantly)
Remembers your preferences (no re-explaining every week)
Does more in-depth thinking (perfect for when you’re tired and overworked)
Here’s the TLDR on how our tool works:
Upload pictures of your refrigerator, freezer, pantry, etc.
Answer 5 brief questions.
It builds the recipes with you.
You get a complete grocery list of the ingredient’s you’ll need for the week.
Show up to mealtime: Prep, Cook, and Enjoy delicious meals.
Watch How I Used The Personal Chef This Week:
Here’s a few screenshots of my custom recipes for this week:
Sample Monday Lunch
Sample Thursday Dinner
Sample Macros for Lunch & Dinner + New Item Grocery List
So far this week the recipes have been healthy, delicious, and best of all…easy to make. I haven’t wasted 1 calorie thinking about what to eat. And prevented myself from falling into any “Easy Button” ordering habits.
If you’re interested, we’re giving our reader’s lifetime access to the Smarter Living Personal Chef and every improvement we make along the way.
The package includes our Personal Chef PLUS every single Smarter Solutions Tool we build in future releases.
Inside this private toolkit, we’re building an AI Command Center filled with simple tools that solve real-life problems.
No subscriptions.
No hidden gotcha’s.
No marketing gimmicks.
Not ready to commit?
Feel free to use the free DIY Basic Chef prompt above.
The Robot Corner → A Taste of the Future
So what's the next level to an AI personal chef?
Try a countertop robot that actually cooks the meals for you:
What’s Posha?
Posha's kitchen robot starts shipping this month at $1,500. It's not a humanoid - looks more like a smart instant pot machine - but it actually cooks complete meals autonomously. (Source: Posha.com)
What does it do?
Posha monitors food with cameras, adjusts heat automatically, adds ingredients at the right time. Basically does what our ChatGPT meal plan tells YOU to do.
Any downsides?
It still needs you to load ingredients. Can't shop for groceries or clean up after. But it's real, shipping now, and costs less than your last year of DoorDash. Great for the busy-body looking for simple meals cooked in minutes.
We're tracking all the robots launching this year. The gap between "AI tells you what to cook" and having a "robot that actually cooks it" is closer faster than we realize.
Final Thoughts
This week’s newsletter isn't about learning how to meal prep…
It's about buying back hours of your life with one quick tool. We drastically underestimate the amount of choices we need to make in the course of a day. Cutting out the choices that don’t matter sounds like a reasonable improvement for your sanity.
No more thinking you have ingredients when you don’t. No more spending hours at the grocery store without a list. No more watching your expense organic groceries go to waste in the refrigerator.
Try out our custom Personal Chef GPT out for yourself.
AI can get you more than halfway there…but whether you stick to the plan is entirely up to you.
If you do try it out…reply to this email and let me know how it goes. I’d love to hear about your experience.
All this talk about food is making me hungry. Time to eat!
That’s all for this week.
See you next Tuesday.
~ Ryan Hutchinson
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