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name: dinner-party-menu-planner
description: "A menu you can cook while holding a glass of wine and a conversation. Use when the user wants help with Dinner Party Menu Planner. Related topics: Food, Planning, Lifestyle."
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# Dinner Party Menu Planner

A menu you can cook while holding a glass of wine and a conversation.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **Guests and dietary needs** (longer free text)
- **Occasion** (choose one: Casual friends, Trying to impress, Family, Celebration, First time hosting)
- **My confidence** (choose one: Nervous, Decent, Confident, Show-off)
- **Kitchen limits** (longer free text)
- **Budget per head** (free text, e.g. "Rough")
- **Season** (free text, e.g. "So the food suits the weather")

## Prompt template

## Dinner party menu

The constraint that matters: at most one dish should need my attention once people arrive.

- Guests and dietary needs: {{Guests and dietary needs}}
- Occasion: {{Occasion}}
- My confidence: {{My confidence}}
- Kitchen limits: {{Kitchen limits}}
- Budget per head: {{Budget per head}}
- Season: {{Season}}

Build the menu, then a countdown from two days before to serving.

Mark what can be made ahead and how to store it. Flag oven and hob clashes explicitly, because that is what actually goes wrong. Suggest one shop-bought element nobody will judge me for.

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Source: [Dinner Party Menu Planner on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/gw9RYnRU8aDW1CRD9I10/dinner-party-menu-planner)