Mondayday 1
Lunch
Cantonese rice with eggs & peas
20 min
Dinner
Chili sin carne with kidney beans & rice
40 min
14 meals for four people, for about $65. Simple dishes, legumes at the center of the plate and just one chicken for the week. To cook it all in one go, check out our cheap meal prep, 5 dinners at $1.46 a serving.
Lunch and dinner for seven days. The longer recipes land in the evenings and on weekends, and lunches stay short.
This menu doesn't quite fit your household? Popotam writes you one just like it, with your tastes, your crew at the table and your budget.
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Create my grocery listA $8 whole chicken covers Sunday lunch and the evening gratin. The rest of the protein comes from eggs, lentils and chickpeas, at under 40 cents a serving.
Potatoes, carrots, onions, leeks: the cheapest in the produce aisle, the ones that last ten days and work in everything from gratin to soup.
Two kilos of rice over three meals, a kilo of pasta over two, four cans of tomatoes: no half-empty pack sits on the shelf until next month.
Everything is cooked, nothing is bought ready-made. That's where the price gap really comes from, way more than from which brands you pick.
Four cans of crushed tomatoes, some garlic, a pinch of sugar: the base for the pasta, the gratin and the pizzas, for a third of the price of jarred sauce.
Sunday's carcass, water, a carrot and an onion: forty minutes of simmering gives you the broth for Thursday's soup, for free.
Frozen peas, spinach and green beans cost half as much as fresh in winter, with no loss of quality and no risk of forgetting them.
Pick your tastes, your constraints and your budget. Popotam builds your meal plan and your grocery list, either generating it itself or with your own ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini account.
The same thrifty spirit, with the quantities and budget for your table.
All our menus follow the same format: 14 meals, a grocery list, an estimated budget.
The most requested format, 14 meals sized just right.
Family of four, dishes to share.
No meat or fish, and filling.
Every ingredient used up within the week.
Two people, a little meat, zero waste.
Dishes kids actually finish.
Three levers, in this order: put legumes and eggs at the center instead of meat, pick cheap vegetables that keep, and don't buy any ingredient that only goes into one dish. This menu does all three, hence $65 for fourteen meals for four, or just over $1 per plate.
First pick a format (number of people, budget, time you have), then lay out 14 meals, lunch and dinner over 7 days, reusing the same ingredients from one dish to the next. Finish with the grocery list grouped by aisle: that's what makes sure the week holds up.
Every menu on this site comes with one, already sorted by aisle. With Popotam, you can also generate your own from your own meals: you check it off as you go and it shows the budget you have left.
Yes, and with no subscription. Two ways to generate, your pick: Popotam handles it itself, which costs it less than a cent, or you use your own ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini account, which costs it nothing. No ads, no selling your data, no commission on your groceries.
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