Set a weekly target and plans are built to fit inside it. Eating well and spending sensibly are not opposites, but they do have to be planned together.
Most tools tell you what you spent after you spent it. Here the number goes in before the plan is made, so it shapes which meals get chosen in the first place. That is the only point in the week where the number can still change the outcome.
Food that gets thrown away is money already spent. Because the list is generated from the plan and quantities are combined across meals, you buy closer to what the week actually needs. Ingredients are reused across several dinners rather than bought for one and forgotten.
Budgets move. A holiday week, a month you are being careful, guests on Saturday. Change the target and the next plan reflects it. Nothing to reconfigure and no separate mode to switch into.
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