Dinner, decided for the week.

Use it as a planning aid and nothing more. You list the allergens and the plan avoids them, including the hidden sources people miss — but no generated meal plan can tell you a specific product is safe. Manufacturers reformulate, "may contain" warnings and shared production lines are real, and labels have to be checked every single time, including on things you've bought before. That instruction is built into the prompts rather than tucked away here. If an allergy is severe or anaphylactic, follow the guidance of the specialist treating your child ahead of anything a tool produces.

That's what the fourth step is for, and it's the reason most meal plans quietly die. The approach is to serve one dinner with a component your child will actually eat rather than cooking twice — plus the feeding principle most specialists work from: you decide what's served and when, they decide whether and how much. It's also honest that pressure, bribing with pudding and cooking to order tend to entrench narrow eating rather than fix it.

Every plan comes with two swaps for the nights most likely to go wrong, and one deliberately low-effort night, because a week where every evening needs real cooking fails on the first hard day. After the first week you keep the three meals that landed well and add one new thing — which is how a rotation you'll actually use gets built, rather than seven perfect strangers.

You set the weekly number and the plan is costed against it — if it doesn't fit, you're told which meals to swap rather than being quietly taken over. Everything uses ordinary supermarket ingredients, nothing requiring a specialist shop, and the list is grouped by section so it's one walk through the store. Prices vary by country and season, so treat the estimate as a guide and check it against your first receipt.

No. There's a version of the batch plan for someone with just a couple of pans, and a version that uses a slow cooker or sheet pans if you have them. If you have no time for a prep session at all, it switches approach entirely — cooking a double portion on two ordinary nights instead of dedicating a whole afternoon to it.