Claude Cowork plans family meals and builds a Grocy list

Adam Davidson used Claude Cowork’s computer-use feature to set up a meal-planning workflow in Grocy, a self-hosted grocery manager running in Home Assistant. He first added family recipes to Grocy. Some came from cookbooks or his own notes, and he found comparable online versions for recipes that were not already available online. He asked Claude to adjust the recipes for a family of four, then watched it enter the recipes and create product categories in Chrome. Davidson says he made a couple of tweaks afterward.

He then tested meal planning by starting from an empty cupboard, choosing three recipes and asking Claude to select two more that used up as many leftover perishable ingredients as possible. Claude added the selected recipes’ ingredients to the Grocy shopping list. The result was a working prototype that combined a family recipe collection, meal choices and a grocery list, with the goal of reducing food waste.

The system was not finished when he wrote the article. Claude had not yet added items to an online supermarket cart, and Davidson planned to check the list and pay himself. The account shows a practical human checkpoint: review recipes and ingredients before buying. It does not report actual waste reduction or a completed grocery order.

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Source: Website · Adam Davidson (How-To Geek)