Cook the food you already bought

Chicken thighs, yoghurt, a lemon, rice, and the herbs that are wilting. That is a dinner. It is also the kind of list people pad, because they feel they should own more. Do not pad it. A generator that assumes cream and pancetta has failed you, even if the paragraph sounds tasty.

A photo works when the list is annoying to type: the shopping on the counter, the fridge door, a scribbled note. You can still delete anything the photo misread. Trust your eyes over the caption.

"Use these" is half the brief. The other half is time, servings, and who will refuse what. A recipe for the chicken that takes an hour and a marinade you should have started at lunch is not a recipe for the chicken you have at six. Ask for easy or rapid if that is the evening.

Portion size should follow the household. Two people do not need a method written for eight, with leftovers you did not ask for — unless you did ask, because tomorrow is also empty.

If the first result is close, cook it. If it ignores the lemon and adds a shopping list of eight things, send it back with "only these, plus oil and salt". You can save a combination you cook often, chicken and rice, salmon and greens, so you are not describing the same fridge every week.

Nutrition is there if you want to glance at it. It is not the reason to cook the food. The reason is that you already paid for it. There is a longer walkthrough on what you can make from a list.