Ask your assistant what's for dinner

Ask Claude what's for dinner and it will give you a recipe. It just won't know whether you have any of it.

That's the gap. Every recipe suggestion an AI makes is a guess about a kitchen it has never seen — which is why it cheerfully recommends the thing that needs buttermilk and a tin of chipotles in adobo at half past six on a Tuesday.

The Pantry Butler knows what's in your kitchen, because you told it. So now you can connect the two.

What this actually does

Connect The Pantry Butler to Claude, ChatGPT or Meta Muse, and ask:

"What can I make for dinner tonight?"

You won't get a recipe from the internet. You'll get your own saved recipes, ranked by how much of each you already have, with the missing bits named:

• Quick Chicken Fried Rice — you have everything but the scallions
• Chimichurri Grilled Chicken — missing parsley, red pepper flakes, Greek yogurt

That second line is a shopping list. The first is dinner.

You can also say "add two lemons and a bag of spinach to my pantry" in exactly those words, or ask "what's about to go off?" so the spinach gets eaten instead of binned.

Why no other recipe app can do this

Any of them can hand an assistant a pile of recipes. None of them know what's in your cupboard, so none of them can answer the only question that matters at six o'clock.

We're not clever for building it. We just happen to be the ones who already know what's in your fridge.

The cook who wrote it comes too

When your assistant answers from your kitchen, the creator's name and the link back to their original post travel with the recipe.

This matters more than it sounds. The normal way a recipe reaches an AI is stripped of whoever made it — the name falls off somewhere between the person who spent a Sunday testing it and the answer you get. Ours carry their author in the structured data, so the credit survives the trip.

If you found a recipe through us and cooked it, the person who created it can know that. They can't on any other route.

Setting it up

About a minute at thepantrybutler.com/connect. Create a token, hand it to your assistant, done.

Claude and ChatGPT speak MCP, so they take one address: https://thepantrybutler.com/mcp

Meta Muse works differently — there's no settings screen for this, you add a service by asking. Meta calls it a Custom Connector, and you don't need us to be listed anywhere first. Paste this into Muse and give it your token when it asks:

Build a custom integration to The Pantry Butler. Its OpenAPI document is https://thepantrybutler.com/openapi.json and it authenticates with a bearer token.

Worth knowing: Meta says plainly that it doesn't review custom connectors, which is why they ask you to read the privacy policy of anything you connect. [Ours is here](/privacy).

What a token can reach

Your recipes and your pantry. Nothing else.

It cannot see or change your subscription, alter your account settings, delete your account, or read your email address. If one ever leaks, revoke it and the worst case is that somebody saw a list of recipes. If you'd rather your assistant only looked at things, give it read-only permission — that's the default.

We built it that way because "connect your AI to your account" is a sentence that should make you slightly nervous, and the right response to that is a smaller key rather than a longer reassurance.

Free on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web.