4 templates
Home prompts ready to copy
Templates to organise home life: menus, shopping, complaints, trips or shared chores. They are starting ideas; always adapt the suggestions to your budget, your schedule and what you actually have at home.
Before you paste it: quick checklist
- Don’t include real addresses, phone numbers or contract numbers.
- Give practical context: people, time available and budget.
- Ask for a list or table so you can use it straight away.
- Check any practical detail (opening hours, prices, deadlines) at the official source.
Weekly menu from what’s in the fridge
I have these ingredients: [list]. Suggest a simple, varied dinner menu for 5 days, with a shopping list for anything missing. There are [n] of us. This is not nutritional advice.
Complaint to a company
Help me write a polite but firm complaint to [type of company] because [problem]. Include what I am asking for and a reasonable deadline for a reply. Don’t include personal data: I’ll add it myself.
Understand a household bill
Explain this [electricity / water / gas / phone] bill without personal data: [items and amounts]. For each item, tell me what it is and whether it is fixed or depends on usage. At the end, list what I should ask the company. Don’t calculate savings you can’t justify from the bill itself.
Share out household chores
There are [n] people at home with these schedules: [schedules, no names: person A, person B…]. Share out these chores: [list] fairly in a weekly table, with the approximate time for each, and suggest how to rotate them every week. Bear in mind that [constraints].
How to adapt it to your assistant
The template works the same in ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or Claude because it only uses plain language. If your assistant supports fixed instructions (custom instructions, Gems or projects), you can store your preferred tone and format there and paste only the variable part. On a free plan, split long requests into two or three shorter messages.