{"id":46417,"date":"2026-07-20T01:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46417"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:18:41","slug":"how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46417","title":{"rendered":"how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>how i use gemini to make a simple summary of my &#8220;Meals&#8221; for the next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:53% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-16-54-1024x702.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46418 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-16-54-1024x702.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-16-54-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-16-54-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-16-54-1536x1052.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-16-54-1226x840.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-16-54-675x462.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-16-54.jpg 1693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Meals for the next week are simply events in Google Calerndar, seen here as a tab in Thunderbird; this works <span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a5f3953e9f6b\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"because the gcal is\"    >because the gcal is<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a5f3953e9f6b\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \"> just a website and Thunderbird can render websites<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"783\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-17-10-2-1024x783.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46421 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-17-10-2-1024x783.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-17-10-2-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-17-10-2-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-17-10-2-675x516.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-17-10-2.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>These meals are created in the &#8220;Meals&#8221; calendar, created in gcal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-18-29-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46422 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-18-29-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-18-29-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-18-29-768x1026.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-18-29-675x902.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-18-29.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>I then asked Gemini+ to summarize meals for the next week; got it, but a little wordy, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1021\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-18-52.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46423 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-18-52.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-18-52-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-18-52-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/how-i-gemini-make-meal-summary-2026-07-20-01-18-52-675x411.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>&#8230;I asked for a simple list. I will typically send this as a snip in Messenger <span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6a5f3953e9fce\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"or an email\"    >or an email<\/span><div id=\"target-id6a5f3953e9fce\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">, or maybe I should add it to the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=40510\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"40510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shopping List<\/a>&#8221; post, since we try to consult it when shopping to avoid missing things<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>how i use gemini to make a simple summary of my &#8220;Meals&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2231,1657],"class_list":["post-46417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-gemini","tag-how-i","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46428,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417\/revisions\/46428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}