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Hey! What can your Chef help you with today?

Dinners for the week, Italian and Mexican

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On it! Searching Italian and Mexican recipes for you…

🇮🇹 Chicken Cacciatore

Italian · 35 min

🇲🇽 Enchiladas Verde

Mexican · 40 min

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Saved your full week! Head to My Plan to review it. 🎉

Ask your Chef…

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Talk to your AI Chef

Just type in plain language — no menus, no filters needed.

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Tap My Chef in the bottom nav Available on every screen — look for the chef's hat icon.
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Tell Chef what you want Try: "dinners for the week", "quick 30-minute meals", "something Italian tonight", or "plan the whole month".
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Chef searches real recipes Every suggestion comes from our curated library of 10,000+ recipes — nothing made up.
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Refine in conversation Swap a meal, add breakfast, change Monday to Greek — just ask and Chef updates your plan.

💡 Tip: The more detail you give, the better. "Weeknight dinners under 30 minutes, no seafood, I have chicken in my pantry" gets you a far more personalised plan than just "dinner ideas".

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What can I make for dinner tonight? I want something quick — under 45 minutes — and ideally using what's already in my pantry.

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Found it! 🎉 Skillet Chicken Fajitas — 24 min total. Uses your chicken breast, onions & olive oil. Just need tortillas. Want the recipe or something different?

Ask your Chef…

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🍴 Tonight's Dinner — one tap

Stuck on what to cook tonight? One tap sends the question — Chef finds an answer in seconds.

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Go to My Plan and tap "🍴 Tonight's Dinner" The orange button sits next to ✨ Smart Plan in the My Plan toolbar — tap it once, no typing needed.
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My Chef opens and asks automatically A fresh conversation starts and Chef immediately searches for a dinner under 45 minutes using what's in your pantry.
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Get one concrete recipe — not a list Chef picks the best match and tells you exactly what pantry items it uses and what (if anything) you'd need to grab.
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Ask for the recipe or swap it Reply "show me the full recipe" to get ingredients and steps, or "find something else" to get another suggestion.

💡 Tip: Keep your Pantry up to date for the best results. The more ingredients Chef knows you have, the better it can match a recipe to exactly what's on your shelf right now.

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🔗 Share This Week's Plan

app.forktasker.com/plan/share/abc123xyz

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Family opens link on their phone →

🍴 Your Week · Jul 14–20

Mon · Skillet Chicken Fajitas · 24 min

Tue · Korean Bibimbap · 40 min

+ 5 more days…

🔗 Share Plan — text it to the family

Stop answering "what's for dinner?" all week. One tap gets you a link anyone can open — no app, no login, no account needed.

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Tap "🔗 Share Plan" in My Plan The green Share Plan button is in the My Plan toolbar. Tap it to open the share modal.
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Copy the link Your unique link is generated once and stays the same until you reset it. Tap Copy — it goes straight to your clipboard.
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Text or send it to anyone Paste the link into a text, group chat, or email. Kids, partners, grandparents — anyone with the link can open it on any device.
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They see the plan instantly The link always shows your current week's plan — updated automatically whenever you change it. No app download needed on their end.

💡 Privacy tip: If you shared the link with someone and want to revoke their access, tap Reset link in the share modal. A new URL is generated immediately — the old link stops working right away.

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Plan the whole month of August — dinners only, mix of cuisines

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Planning all 4 weeks with zero repeats! Here's Week 1…

Week 1 · Aug 3–9

Mon: Spaghetti Carbonara 🇮🇹
Tue: Chicken Tikka Masala 🇮🇳
Wed: Thai Basil Stir Fry 🇹🇭

Add one Italian dinner per week and make sure no repeats across all 4

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Done — one Italian dish added to each week, zero repeats across all 4 weeks! ✅

Ask your Chef…

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Multi-week planning

Chef can plan days, weeks, or an entire month in one conversation.

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Ask for multiple weeks at once "Plan the whole month of August, dinners every day with dessert on weekends."
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Chef builds each week with no repeats Recipe IDs are tracked across all weeks — the same dish will never appear twice.
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Refine each week in conversation "Add one Italian dinner to each week" or "swap Wednesday week 2 for something Greek".
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All weeks are saved to your account Scroll back and forward in My Plan to see any week.

💡 Tip: Use the Household Rules field in your Profile to tell Chef things that always apply — "one Italian dinner per week" or "no spicy food on weeknights". Chef reads this every session automatically.

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My Plan

‹ Jul 7–13 ›

Monday

🌅 Blueberry Lemon Quinoa

🇮🇹 Chicken Cacciatore

Tuesday

🥞 Oatmeal Blueberry Pancakes

🇲🇽 Enchiladas Verde

Wednesday

🍳 Cheesy Baked Eggs

🇹🇭 Thai Basil Stir Fry

Your weekly meal plan

See your full week at a glance — tap any meal for the full recipe.

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Tap My Plan in the bottom nav Your current week shows by default. Use the arrows to navigate to any past or future week.
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Tap any meal for the full recipe Ingredients, instructions, prep time, and nutrition — everything you need to cook it.
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Swap a meal instantly Hit the ↺ Swap button on any slot to replace it with a similar recipe that fits your preferences.
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Email, print, or build your cart Email your plan for the week, print it for the fridge, or tap Walmart, Kroger, or Instacart to shop.

💡 Tip: Tap the calendar icon to switch to Month View — see dot-per-day summaries for the whole month and jump to any week with one tap.

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My Plan

Monday · Dinner

🇹🇭 Thai Basil Chicken 👍 👎

Tuesday · Dinner

🍝 Pasta Bolognese 👍 👎

✕ Won't appear in future plans

Wednesday · Dinner

🇲🇽 Chicken Enchiladas 👍 👎

👍 Taste Learning — train your plan

Rate any meal right from the plan card. ForkTasker remembers your preferences and adjusts future Smart Plans automatically.

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Find the 👍 👎 buttons on each meal card They appear at the top-right of every recipe card in My Plan — on desktop and mobile.
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Tap 👎 to permanently remove a meal from your future plans That recipe is excluded from every Smart Plan you generate going forward. It can still appear if you manually search and add it.
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Tap 👍 to tell ForkTasker you loved a meal Rate five or more meals from the same cuisine and Smart Plan gives that cuisine a gentle scoring boost — so similar meals come up more often.
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Tap again to undo any rating Tap the same thumb a second time to clear the rating and return to neutral. Your taste profile updates instantly.

💡 How the boost works: Thumbs-up boosts are capped so you never get the same cuisine every night — variety is always protected. My Chef also reads your ratings when building custom plans via conversation.

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Shopping List — Jul 7–13

🥦 Produce (6)

Garlic, 4 cloves

Roma tomatoes, 3

Spinach, 2 cups

🥩 Meat & Seafood (4)

Chicken breast, 2 lbs

Ground turkey, 1 lb

🥛 Dairy & Eggs (3)

Eggs, 1 dozen

Parmesan, 4 oz

🛒 Walmart Cart | 🛒 Kroger | Shop Instacart

Shopping lists & carts

ForkTasker builds your grocery list automatically — deducting what you already have.

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Open My Plan and tap your preferred store ForkTasker combines all ingredients from every recipe in your week into one consolidated list, then routes you to Walmart, Kroger, or Instacart.
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Pantry items are automatically deducted Ingredients you've added to your Pantry — including staples like olive oil and salt — are removed from the list.
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Shop your way — app, site, or in-store Walmart and Kroger push your cart directly — one tap and your items are pre-loaded, ready to check out (opens the app on mobile if you have it). Instacart shows ingredient chips you tap one by one — each one opens straight in the Instacart app on mobile so you can add and compare items.
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Email your shopping list instead Prefer to shop in-store? Hit "Email Shopping List" to get a categorised list sent to your inbox.

💡 Tip: Add your Staples in the Pantry tab (things you always have — olive oil, salt, garlic). They'll be automatically removed from every shopping list you ever build.

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My Pantry

Chicken breast protein

Olive oil staple

Garlic staple

Jasmine rice pantry

Canned tomatoes pantry

Parmesan dairy

📷 Scan Receipt

Pantry & receipt scanning

Tell ForkTasker what you have — and it plans around it.

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Add items to your Pantry manually Type any ingredient and tap Add. Items stay in your pantry until you remove them.
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Or scan a grocery receipt Tap "📷 Scan Receipt", photograph your receipt, and ForkTasker reads it automatically — adding everything to your pantry in seconds.
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Set your Staples Mark things you always keep stocked (olive oil, salt, garlic) as Staples — they're deducted from every shopping list automatically.
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Ask Chef to cook from your pantry "What can I make tonight with what I have?" — Chef sees your pantry and suggests recipes that use what's already there.

💡 Tip: Use Smart Plan (the ✨ button in My Plan) to build a full week that maximises pantry ingredients — Chef picks recipes that share ingredients to cut your shopping list down.

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Profile · Refer & Save

🎁 Your referral link

app.forktasker.com/signup?ref=C2GK88

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💰 $1.50 credit · applied to next bill

Your referrals

z***@gmail.com ✅ +$1.50

j***@outlook.com ⏳ Pending

Credits auto-apply to your monthly bill

Refer & Save

Share your link — your friend saves on day one, you earn every time they renew.

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Go to Profile → Refer & Save Your unique referral link is waiting there — every account gets one automatically.
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Copy and share your link Text it, DM it, post it — anyone who signs up through your link is tied to your account.
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Your friend gets 15% off their first month The discount is applied automatically at checkout when they subscribe after their trial — no code entry needed.
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You earn a 15% bill credit When your friend's subscription auto-renews for the second month, a credit lands in your account and reduces your next bill automatically.

💰 The math: Each Basic referral earns ~$1.50, each Premium earns ~$3.00. Refer 10 friends who stick around and you earn up to 1.5 months of ForkTasker free — no cap on how many people you can refer.

Full details and common questions → faq.html#referrals

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