Ask in your own words
Claude sees your Nomstash freezer and your plan, so last month’s chilli comes up before anything new.
- “What’s in the freezer, oldest first?”
- “Plan dinners from Monday to Friday. Use what’s in the freezer first.”
- “We’re out on Thursday. Move the lasagne to Friday.”
- “I’ve put 2 portions of chilli in a container. Add it to my stash.”
- “Here’s my freezer list from my notes app. Put it all in Nomstash.”
Your week stays in Nomstash
The plan is saved with the shopping list beside it, so nobody has to scroll back through a chat to find out what’s for dinner.
Cooking for two homes? Ask for both: “Plan 6 extra portions of cottage pie for Dad on Sunday.”
Look in the cupboard before you shop
Mark each thing In cupboard or Out of stock, and anything you’ve got comes off your list. That half bag of rice gets used before you buy another.
1. Check at home2. Shop
Check at home first
- Chopped tomatoes, 400g In cupboard Out of stock
- Basmati rice, 1kg In cupboard Out of stock
- Onions In cupboard Out of stock
- Kidney beans, 400g In cupboard Out of stock
3 of 4 checked
An example list. Yours comes from the dinners you plan.
Soon: the recipes your family already loves
Found a dinner the kids ate without a fuss, on a website or in a chat with Claude? Soon you’ll be able to bring it into Nomstash and plan it into your cook day and your freezer like any other.
Until then, Claude plans from the dishes already in Nomstash.
Freezer safety, in the FSA’s words
Choose dinners with Claude. For freezing and defrosting, go by the Food Standards Agency.
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Label everything that goes in the freezer.
label food you freeze so you don’t end up with Unidentified Frozen Objects (UFOs)
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Defrost in the fridge overnight. If you can’t, use the microwave’s defrost setting directly before cooking.
the safest way to defrost food is in the fridge overnight
use a microwave on the defrost setting directly before cooking
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Once it’s fully defrosted, eat it within 24 hours.
use food within 24 hours after it’s been fully defrosted
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Food that’s been cooked and frozen is reheated once, not again after that.
you can freeze food again once cooked, but you’ll only be able to reheat it once after that
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Last checked against the Food Standards Agency page linked here.
Every rule, with all its sources: freezing, defrosting and reheating safely.
Connect Claude
Nomstash isn’t in Claude’s list of connectors yet, so you add it by hand and sign in once. After that it stays connected, and asks you to sign in again about once a year.
How to connect Claude, step by step
ChatGPT is coming soon.
New to cooking ahead? How to plan a cook day walks through one afternoon by the clock.
Sources
- Food Standards Agency How to chill, freeze and defrost food safely gov.uk
Last checked . Each quotation on this page was read against the page it links to.