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Date
2025
Abstract
Vermonters face high levels of food insecurity, with residents of Washington County being disproportionately affected. The Vermont Foodbank is an organization that works in collaboration with local food shelves to distribute food directly to the community. The Waterbury Common Market is a food shelf that serves the Waterbury, Vermont area. Patrons of the food shelf may struggle to create balanced, nutritious recipes out of the rotating items available at a given time. The goal of this project was to develop a user-friendly template for clients to input food shelf items and home ingredients into ChatGPT, generating recipes with step-by-step instructions and allowing for modifications to be made for different kitchen appliances. While implementation of the template has not yet begun, the project may ultimately help people create nutritious meals from available food, reduce food waste, and improve dietary quality as well as increase valuable time for people utilizing the resource. Future projects may aim to translate the template into multiple languages as well as conduct surveys to assess the efficacy of the intervention.
Clinical Site
CVMC Family Medicine Waterbury
Keywords
food insecurity, food shelf, artificial intelligence
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Disciplines
Food Security | Medical Education | Primary Care
Recommended Citation
Gorbacheva, Anna, "AI-Powered Meal Planning: A Community Health Initiative" (2025). Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects. 1157.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1157