What do I need to use What's for Dinner?

What you've got; Time & energy; Who's eating & limits; Equipment, if it matters.

Is What's for Dinner free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

What's for Dinner

Q: How do I know the What's for Dinner output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Options are built from the stated ingredients (purchases only as an optional flag); At least one genuinely low-effort/low-time option; Allergies and diet limits are treated as hard filters; Substitutions are offered for likely-missing items.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-08-04 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-kitchen

Decide what to cook tonight from what you already have and how much time/energy you've got — no shopping trip, no recipe rabbit hole. Use when asked what should I make for dinner, what can I cook with what's in my fridge, quick dinner ideas, or I don't know what to eat. Produces 3 doable options ranked by effort with a quick method for each, honest substitutions, and a 'need one thing' flag if a near-miss is worth a corner-shop run — respecting diets and dislikes.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

🗣 Say this to your agent

“What can I make with eggs, spinach, and some pasta?”“Quick dinner idea — 15 minutes, vegetarian.”“I don't know what to eat tonight, help.”“What's for dinner? I've got chicken, rice, and whatever's in the door of the fridge.”“No-oven dinner for two, nothing in the house is fresh.”

What to give it

▸What you've got — the key fridge/pantry items (rough is fine: "eggs, some veg, pasta, cheese")

▸Time & energy — 10 minutes and done, or happy to cook for 40

▸Who's eating & limits — number of people, diet (veg/vegan/GF), allergies, hard dislikes

▸Equipment, if it matters — no oven? one pan? air fryer?

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Options are built from the stated ingredients (purchases only as an optional flag)

✓At least one genuinely low-effort/low-time option

✓Allergies and diet limits are treated as hard filters

✓Substitutions are offered for likely-missing items

✓Method is concise steps with rough times — not a narrative

⚠️ What it refuses to do

**Recipes that assume a shopping trip** for half the ingredients.

**Ignoring a stated allergy or diet** ("just leave out the nuts" for a nut allergy — no).

**The blog-post preamble** — get to the cooking.

**Only fancy options** when the person said they're exhausted.

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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🔌 Embed this skill

Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

<div data-pm-skill="whats-for-dinner"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

💬 Discussion

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