I believe the most useful everyday AI will quietly remove dozens of tiny decisions. Food is the biggest one. Not finding recipes, but deciding what to cook, making it fit your diet and time, and turning it into a plan you can follow.
That is why I built PlanEat AI
- an AI weekly meal planner that creates a full menu around your diet, allergies, dislikes, meals per day, and cooking time. You get a realistic week plus one smart shopping list. Swap a dish and the plan, recipes, and list update instantly. No calorie counting. The goal is simple, consistent healthy eating without decision fatigue.
Why food is a perfect case for everyday AI
- High frequency decisions every day
- Personal constraints like diets, allergies, time budgets
- Tangible outcomes like adherence, faster shopping, less waste
Most tools excel at inspiration or tracking. The future is orchestration: an assistant that respects constraints, plans the whole week in minutes, and stays flexible when life changes at 6 pm.
What automation looks like
- Set preferences once: diet, allergies, dislikes, meals per day, cooking time
- Receive a weekly plan with clear instructions and prep friendly ideas
- Use a single consolidated shopping list that groups items and quantities
- Change your mind anytime and the assistant recalculates instantly
Next step
Cooking is cultural and physical. Long term I want to replace AI generated recipes with short video recipes from local cooks. A Japanese cook teaches Japanese dishes, an Italian teaches Italian. Videos tie to timers and captions, push ingredients into the shopping list, and offer regional substitutions.
If this resonates, I would love your thoughts on where meal planning AI should go next and what a trustworthy cooking companion looks like for you.
I am Valerii Torianyk, founder of PlanEat AI and CEO at Valtorian, a startup partner that helps domain experts validate ideas, build focused MVPs, and reach first traction.
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