Meals

What This Skill Does

The Meals skill transforms your OpenClaw agent into a sophisticated personal sous-chef and meal planner. It moves beyond simple lists by maintaining a local, persistent workspace at ~/meals/ that keeps track of your dietary preferences, pantry staples, and a growing database of your favorite recipes. It intelligently generates shopping lists by aggregating ingredients while excluding items you already have in your pantry, and helps you manage your weekly schedule by accounting for time constraints and leftovers.

Installation

You can install this skill by running the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ivangdavila/meals

Use Cases

• Weekly Planning: Generate a balanced meal plan for the week, accounting for busy nights that require 15-minute meals versus slow weekends that allow for complex cooking projects.
• Inventory Management: Automatically subtract pantry staples like rice, spices, or olive oil from your generated shopping lists to prevent unnecessary purchases.
• Culinary Habit Building: Track recipes that your family actually enjoys, store notes on necessary adjustments for next time, and use historical data to suggest meals based on patterns (e.g., reminding you that you haven't cooked salmon in several weeks).
• Efficient Prep: Plan for batch cooking by identifying ingredients that serve as a base for multiple meals, and create "leftover strategies" to turn Sunday roasts into quick Monday lunches.

Example Prompts

• "I have a busy week ahead with soccer practice on Tuesday and Thursday. Create a meal plan for 5 dinners that includes two 15-minute meals and uses leftover chicken from Monday for Wednesday's lunch."
• "Generate a shopping list for the week based on my current plan, but exclude items I have in my pantry like salt, garlic, and jasmine rice."
• "I really liked the Lemon Herb Salmon we made last month. Can you add it to this week's plan and adjust the shopping list accordingly?"

Tips & Limitations

To get the most out of this skill, be diligent about updating your preferences.md file with your specific dietary needs and dislikes. Treat the meal database as a living document; the more feedback you provide after cooking, the more accurate the AI's suggestions will become. Note that this tool focuses on planning and organization rather than nutritional macro-tracking or calorie counting. Since it relies on local file management, ensure your ~/meals/ directory is backed up if you store extensive custom recipes there.