Mondayday 1
Lunch
Macaroni with ham & Gruyère
15 min
Dinner
Homemade hachis parmentier (French shepherd's pie)
55 min
14 meals for four, including dishes kids actually finish: no strong spices, familiar formats, and vegetables that go down without negotiation. To make them ahead, check out our family meal prep, 5 dishes for 4.
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.
Fit this menu to my weekfree, no account, about two minutesAlready grouped by aisle, so you get through the store without doubling back.
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Create my grocery listMacaroni, shepherd's pie, breaded stuff, croque: the most reassuring formats. Anything new shows up in the filling, never in the shape of the dish.
Carrots in the shepherd's pie, blended veggies in the soup, zucchini in the quiche: two vegetables a day that don't get negotiated at the table.
Chicken or pollock, breadcrumbs and an egg: five minutes more than a frozen product, for a dish with no additives that costs half as much.
Saturday's pizza night isn't just a treat: a kid who topped their own slice eats it, mushrooms they put on themselves included.
A truly smooth soup goes down where a chunky one gets refused. An immersion blender and thirty extra seconds are all it takes.
A potato masher and a bit of warm milk: more flavor than the instant flakes, for two minutes of work and a third of the price.
Yesterday's bread blitzed in the blender replaces store-bought breadcrumbs, for Tuesday's chicken and Friday's fish alike.
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.
All our menus follow the same format: 14 meals, a grocery list, an estimated budget.
Family of four, dishes to share.
Big quantities, grouped grocery runs.
A week for four at the lowest price.
Two hours on Sunday, your week's sorted.
Five ingredients, zero technique.
Veggies twice a day, no deprivation.
Mix them into a dish they already like instead of serving them on the side: grated into a sauce, blended into a soup, melted into a gratin. And get them involved once a week, pizza night for example: what they made themselves almost always goes down.
This menu comes in at around $106 for fourteen meals, or about $1.91 per plate. What moves that number is the number of meals with meat and the share of processed food: the homemade breading and mashed potatoes in this menu cost half as much as their ready-made versions.
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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