Mondayday 1
Lunch
Lentil salad, feta & tomatoes
15 min
Dinner
Chili con carne & rice
45 min
14 meals for four, varied without being complicated, with a complete grocery list and a budget of about $110 for the whole week.
Lunch and dinner for seven days. The longer recipes land in the evenings and on weekends, and lunches stay short.
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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 listSunday lunch's roast becomes the evening pasta bake. One bird bought, two meals served, and no carcass tossed on Tuesday.
The dal and the lentil salad bring the budget down without anyone noticing, because they land between a salmon and a tagine.
Lasagna, tagine and roast chicken land on dinners and the weekend. On weekdays, lunches stay under twenty minutes.
Two pizza doughs, whatever cheese is left and a salad: the meal all four look forward to, for about $3 a person.
On Sunday, the oven's on anyway. Add a tray of carrots and potatoes: those are your sides for Monday and Tuesday.
Cooking time is the same for one or two kilos of sauce. Half goes in the freezer and will save a night the following week.
Grated carrots and sliced cucumber on Sunday, in a sealed container: the wraps and croque-monsieurs come together in five minutes.
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.
Dishes kids actually finish.
The most requested format, 14 meals sized just right.
A week for four at the lowest price.
Big quantities, grouped grocery runs.
Two hours on Sunday, your week's sorted.
Veggies twice a day, no deprivation.
If you cook every meal at home, lunch and dinner, you're looking at around $101 to $123 a week in France, or $3.92 per person per day. This menu is sized at $110. The main lever isn't the brand of the products, it's the number of meals where meat is the center of the 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.
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