Mondayday 1
Lunch
Pasta salad, tuna & crunchy veggies
20 min
Dinner
Potato gratin with bacon & reblochon
55 min
14 meals for five, built on one-pot dishes that scale up without blowing the bill: casseroles, gratins and big skillet meals.
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.
With Popotam, you check this list off as you go and see the budget you have left.
Create my grocery listGratin, chili, couscous, bolognese: adding a serving changes neither the cooking time nor the dishes, just the size of the pan.
Rice, couscous and potatoes cost a few cents a serving. They're what makes the difference between feeding four and feeding five.
Tuesday night's pot turns into Wednesday's lunch fried rice. For five, cooking the same volume twice is wasted time.
Sunday's roast and tart share the oven. On weekdays, no evening goes over fifty-five minutes.
Two kilos of rice, one kilo of pasta: for five, it all gets used within the month and the price per kilo drops 30 to 40%.
A packed gratin cooks badly and serves badly. Two medium dishes beat one overloaded dish, especially for five plates.
Leek tops, slightly soft carrots and turnips all go into a big soup: it covers Tuesday lunch and makes a base for sauce.
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 crowd, generous dishes.
Dishes kids actually finish.
Two hours on Sunday, your week's sorted.
A week for four at the lowest price.
Adjusted portions, one more mouth to feed.
The price per person drops naturally when you cook for five, as long as you buy big packs and cook one-pot dishes rather than individual portions. Planning on about $26 per person per week for 14 meals, like in this menu, is a realistic goal without cutting corners on quality.
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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