FAMILY RECIPE

A sample run, end to end

One household's answers → 14 nights → tonight's card → one check-in → tomorrow's card, changed.

Everything on this page was produced by running the planner on one made-up household. The inputs are two small files — a household and a single check-in. Every dish, every timing, every reason below was computed from them by scripts/demo_auto.py, and this page renders that output without touching it. The household is fictional so that a real family's answers never end up on a public page; the recipe pool and the planner are the live ones.

1 · What went in

The Sample Family: four people, one kitchen, 40 minutes on a weeknight.

  • Parent A (adult) — no allergies on file; no dislikes on file.
  • Parent B (adult) — allergic to milk; won't eat cilantro.
  • Older Kid (child) — no allergies on file; won't eat fish.
  • Younger Kid (child) — no allergies on file; won't eat mushroom.
Never send
milk (hard exclusion) · cilantro, fish, mushroom (refused ingredients) · dairy-free
Lean toward
chicken, turkey · one-pot, sheet-pan · picky-friendly, quick-cleanup
Kitchen
oven, stovetop · 40 minutes or less

That is the entire input. Applying it to the current recipe pool leaves 16 dishes standing — enough for 14 nights with no repeats, which is what the planner checks before it will plan anything at all.

2 · The 14 nights it planned

Planned in one pass, before a single card goes out. Nothing repeats, and each night leans toward a different person in turn.

This is the plan as it stands on day one, before anyone has cooked anything. It is not a fixed menu — section 5 shows what a single check-in does to night 2.

Night Dinner Time Leans toward
1 Turkey & Zucchini Rice Skillet
turkey · one-pot, stovetop		 25 min Parent A
2 Sheet-Pan Chicken Fajitas
chicken · sheet-pan, baked		 30 min Parent B
3 One-Pot Chicken & Rice
chicken · one-pot, stovetop		 35 min Older Kid
4 Sheet-Pan Pork Chops & Potatoes
pork · sheet-pan, baked		 40 min Younger Kid
5 Beef Taco Skillet
beef · one-pot, stovetop		 25 min Parent A
6 Chili-Lime Chicken Thighs
chicken · baked		 35 min Parent B
7 Paprika Pork & Potato Skillet
pork · one-pot, stovetop		 30 min Older Kid
8 Southwest Corn & Bean Bowl
legumes · no-cook		 15 min Younger Kid
9 Turkey Meatball Marinara Bake
turkey, egg · baked, stovetop		 40 min Parent A
10 Black Bean & Sweet Potato Skillet
legumes · one-pot, stovetop		 25 min Parent B
11 Sheet-Pan Beef & Peppers
beef · sheet-pan, baked		 30 min Older Kid
12 Lemon Chickpea Rice Skillet
legumes · one-pot, stovetop		 20 min Younger Kid
13 Roasted Lentil & Veggie Tray
legumes · sheet-pan, baked		 30 min Parent A
14 Ginger Scallion Beef Stir-Fry
beef · stir-fry, stovetop		 20 min Parent B

Nights 3 to 14 arrive as full cards, one a night. The two below are the whole card, exactly as it lands in the inbox.

3 · Night 1, in full

Night 1 · card demo-family-20260804

Turkey & Zucchini Rice Skillet

25 min · serves 4 · one-pot, stovetop

Parent A's turn in the rotation.

Contains: none of the nine major allergens are tagged on this recipe. Always double-check packaging labels.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1.5 lb · ground turkey
  • 2 · zucchini
  • 3 cups · cooked rice
  • 2 cups · cherry tomatoes
  • 1 · onion
  • 3 cloves · garlic
  • 2 tbsp · olive oil

STEPS

  1. Brown the ground turkey in 2 tbsp olive oil over medium-high heat 6 minutes.
  2. Add the diced onion and garlic; cook 3 minutes.
  3. Stir in the diced zucchini and halved tomatoes; cook 6 minutes until the zucchini softens.
  4. Fold in 3 cups cooked rice and warm through 5 minutes; season with salt and pepper.

FOR THE PICKY-EATER

Scoop out plain turkey and rice before the zucchini and tomato go in.

4 · One check-in comes back

The next morning the household answers two questions: did you cook it, and how did each person take it. That is the whole check-in — cooked, plus one word per person.

  • Parent A — ate
  • Parent B — loved
  • Older Kid — loved
  • Younger Kid — ate

Read as signal, that is:

  • Methods to lean into: one-pot, stovetop
  • Proteins to lean into: turkey

Two people said ate, which moves nothing — eating dinner is not evidence about tomorrow. Only the two loved answers carry, and they carry along the axes that dish actually had.

5 · Night 2 is not what it was going to be

Same household, same recipe pool, same night — the only difference is that one check-in.

Planned before the check-in
Sheet-Pan Chicken Fajitas · 30 min · sheet-pan, baked

Sent after the check-in
One-Pot Chicken & Rice · 35 min · one-pot, stovetop

Night 2 · card demo-family-20260805

One-Pot Chicken & Rice

35 min · serves 4 · one-pot, stovetop

Parent B's turn in the rotation.

Contains: none of the nine major allergens are tagged on this recipe. Always double-check packaging labels.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1.5 lb · chicken thigh
  • 2 cups · rice
  • 1 · onion
  • 2 cups · chicken stock

STEPS

  1. Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper.
  2. Sauté onion 3 minutes; add rice and 2 cups stock.
  3. Nestle chicken on top; cover and simmer 25 minutes.

FOR THE PICKY-EATER

Set aside plain chicken and rice before adding any sauce.

6 · Why each night got picked

Every card carries the reasons it won. The two below are the ones the planner attached to nights 1 and 2 — not a description of them afterwards, but the record it wrote at the moment it chose.

Night 1 — Turkey & Zucchini Rice Skillet

  • easy-first-card — the first night is picked from the quickest dishes that fit
  • preferred-attribute — matches an attribute they asked for, like picky-friendly
  • preferred-method — a cooking method this household asked for
  • preferred-protein — a protein this household asked for

Night 2 — One-Pot Chicken & Rice

  • feedback-adjusted — the check-in changed the answer — without it, a different dish wins
  • learned-from-loved — shares an axis with a dinner they said they loved
  • preferred-attribute — matches an attribute they asked for, like picky-friendly
  • preferred-method — a cooking method this household asked for
  • preferred-protein — a protein this household asked for

The planner only writes feedback-adjusted when the check-in genuinely changed the answer: it re-runs the same night without the signal and compares. If night 2 had come out the same either way, that code would be absent — and it is on the card above.

How this page was produced

Generator: scripts/demo_auto.py, version rules-v1

Run anchored to 2026-08-04 — a fixed date, so re-running the generator reproduces this page byte for byte.

Night 1 input fingerprint: 881cba7832693518fdb0c5ea41954eecda3c1dd36e4713b725bf609fc4bc33d7

Night 2 input fingerprint: 3a16cb412261c5e11f21d57655ba66f73b7d5c949acb1bb4bdab43ccaa6795d4

A fingerprint is a hash of the inputs that produced a card. Same inputs, same fingerprint, same dinner — that is what makes this run checkable instead of merely claimed.

What a real household gets

The same thing, with its own answers: 14 nights planned up front, one card a night by email, each card naming one dinner for the table plus a variation for the fussy eater, and every check-in feeding the next card. A one-time $29 charge. Nothing renews, and nothing ships — you shop and cook at home.

Want your own 14 nights? Start on the main page — it says whether we're taking new households right now, and checkout is there when we are. Questions? support@mykitchen-labs.fit