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Adapt a recipe to what you can eat

Paste any recipe. Get it back without the thing you can't have.

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Here is a recipe:

Carbonara: 200g spaghetti, 100g pancetta, 2 eggs, 50g pecorino, black pepper. Fry pancetta, cook pasta, mix eggs and cheese, combine off the heat.

I need it changed: no pork, and make it feed four

Rewrite it. Then tell me, in two or three lines, what the change costs. If the swap makes it worse in a specific way, say so plainly rather than pretending the substitute is identical. If there is a trick that gets closer to the original, give me that.

Keep the method in the same order as the original so I can follow along.

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What you get: The rewritten recipe, plus an honest line on what you lose by swapping, and the trick that gets closest.

Ask what the swap costs

Models are relentlessly encouraging about substitutions. Cashew cream is not double cream, and a recipe that pretends otherwise ruins a dinner. The last paragraph of this prompt is the whole point: it asks for the downside in plain terms.

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