Ask for what the week needs — a budget, more protein, a vegetarian night, the spinach to use up. Coena looks at your kitchen and proposes a plan, a list or a new recipe. You decide what happens.
Plan a week of high-protein dinners under $150Plan a week of high-protein dinners under $150
Looking at your recipes, pantry and prices…
Here's a week at about 36 g of protein a serving, for 4. Three dinners use what's already in your pantry.
MonLemon-garlic chicken thighs with farro45 min · uses your pantry41 g
TueMiso salmon rice bowls30 min36 g
WedTurkey and black bean chili50 min · uses your pantry38 g
ThuCrispy tofu and broccoli, peanut sauce35 min29 g
FriChicken souvlaki bowls40 min44 g
SatSteak tacos with charred corn35 min39 g
SunChana masala with yogurt rice40 min · uses your pantry24 g
≈ $138 for 34 items at your storesApply planAdd to list
An example answer: seven high-protein dinners, about $138 for 34 items, with buttons to apply the plan and add the items to the shopping list.
Try:What can I make tonight with what's in my fridge?
Ask like you'd ask a friend who cooks
The things you actually wonder at 5 pm.
“Plan a week of high-protein dinners under $150”
A seven-day plan from your recipes (and a few new ones), the shopping list and what it costs at your stores.
“What can I make tonight with what's in my fridge?”
Recipes ranked by what you have, with the one or two things you'd need.
“Use up the spinach before Friday”
Dinners that use it, placed on the days before it expires.
“Make Tuesday vegetarian”
A swap for Tuesday's dinner that fits the rest of the week.
“Build a shopping list for Sunday meal prep”
One list for everything you're batch-cooking, merged and sorted by aisle.
“Turn this into a grocery list for 6 people”
The recipe scaled to six, minus what's in the pantry.
“Find a recipe like my chana masala but faster”
A new recipe in the same spirit, ready to save to your library.
“We're two adults and a toddler, no nuts — plan the week”
A plan that respects your household's size, preferences and allergies.
It knows your kitchen
Plans from your recipes, not the internet's.
The planner works from what's in your Coena: the recipes you've saved and rated, what you've cooked lately, what's in the pantry and when it expires, the week's plan and lists, and your household's size, preferences and allergies. When a plan needs something new, it writes a full recipe you can keep.
Favorites and recent cooks, so the week isn't seven new experiments
Pantry and expiry dates, so the yogurt gets used
Prices at your stores, so a budget means something
Dietary preferences and allergies, every time
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You stay in charge
It proposes. You apply.
The planner never changes your kitchen on its own. Every plan, list or recipe arrives as a card you can apply, edit or discard — and every change it makes can be undone.
ApplyMeals land on the planner and items on your list, exactly as shown.
EditSwap Wednesday, change servings or drop an item before anything is saved.
UndoChanged your mind? Undo puts everything back the way it was.
Honest by design
Straight about prices, careful with your data.
Prices with a sourceEvery total says where it came from — live prices from a named store, community prices or estimates. The planner never makes up a price.
Only your kitchenIt reads your kitchen's data and nothing else, and treats recipe text as ingredients and steps — never as instructions.
Food, not medicineIt's happy to talk protein and fiber, and it respects allergies, but it won't give medical or diet advice. That's your doctor's job.
Don't want AI? Turn it off with one switch in Settings. The planner disappears, AI imports and photos switch off, and nothing you do goes to an AI provider — enforced on the server, not just hidden. Coena is still a great recipe box, planner and shopping list without it.
The planner runs on Claude, by Anthropic. Under Anthropic's commercial terms, what Coena sends isn't used to train their models. Free kitchens get 10 questions a day and Coena Plus kitchens 60; see pricing.
Try asking
A few to start with
What can I make tonight with what's in my fridge?
Use up the spinach before Friday
Make Tuesday vegetarian
Build a shopping list for Sunday meal prep
Turn my chana masala into a list for 6 people
Find a recipe like my chana masala, but faster
Prefer to plan in Claude? Coena's Claude connector can read your recipes, plan meals and fill your list from any Claude chat.
