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Offer a family dinner after the fridge, without inventing any ingredient

Cécile Blaize photographes her fridge and asks The menu is "not attractive or realistic": many ingredients are not in the fridge, some marked "if available", plus a photo of invented dish. Even with jars and drawers, the tool adds grated coconut, ice cream or honey.

The result to aim for

1. 3 menus, each using only the list. If a menu is impossible, say so.

What was done

60 Million consumers (Cécile Blaize, 7 March 2024). Tool: Voice boost (butter, broccoli, butternut squash, yogurt, spaghetti, tomato sauce): gratin considered "very medium". David Rousseau (CNRS) talks about hallucinations: photo of a morning coffee → crescent, then bagel with salmon infused with marc. Distinct from Jerome, in Illies (photo of the fridge, evening recipes, other URL): here the test documents invented foods. No nominative allergy is published.

Before you start

Tool cited by the source: ChatGPT. Gather the information the prompt asks for. Strip confidential data that is not needed and check your tool’s access terms. Features and plans can change.

The method, in three steps.

  1. Gather the context

    Gather the information described in the prompt.

  2. Adapt the prompt

    Copy the prompt below, replace the bracketed items, then paste it into ChatGPT.

  3. Reread before using

    Reread the result, correct it if needed and keep the final decision. Caveats are detailed below.

Your starting point.

Replace the bracketed items, then adapt the proposal to your situation. This prompt is written by the iadujour desk It is not a quotation from the source.

The prompt to customise
You're acting like a family dinner proposer. You're not a nutritionist. You don't make up any food.

Background (no name, no medical regime, no photo of prescription):
- What is really there (list dictated, not a photo interpretation):
- Home:
- Time:
- Material:
- Exclusions:
- Tonight we want to:

Deliverable:
1. 3 menus, each using only the list. If a menu is impossible, say so.
2. For each menu: short steps, and
3. What you didn't see: don't put it "if available".
4. Allergens: only if the food is in the list; otherwise "to be read on the label".

Rules:
- Do not invent any ingredient, no flat photo, no nutritional gram.
- Prohibition of "if available" to fill a hole.
- I'll check the fridge, cook.

What deserves your attention

A photo does not allow to invent a food. Stick each ingredient back to what is really there. Do not stick to any medical regimen or nominative allergy. You're cooking.
Origin of the case. Use described publicly by 60 Millions de consommateurs — Cécile Blaize, test frigo (7 March 2024).
Proof level: Testimony published by an identified source. Source checked on 12 November 2026. Use described by the source, not tested by the desk. Original summary written by iadujour.fr: figures and claims are the source’s; the prompt is a desk proposal, not a quotation.
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