Cooking & food21 categories
Make this cheaper without ruining it
A recipe you love with an ingredient list that has quietly got expensive.
List these ingredients by cost, highest first, and leave the cheap things alone. For the top three, give a cheaper cut, form, or shop, and say honestly what changes in the result. Name the one ingredient not to economise on. If the savings would be trivial, say so instead of proposing changes. Recipe: Servings: Where I shop:
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Adapting a recipe. Scaling, converting units, cutting the cost, the pans, the time, or an ingredient someone cannot eat.
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