Mondayday 1
Lunch
Bulgur salad, chickpeas & feta
20 min
Dinner
Big-dish lasagna bolognese
70 min
14 meals for six, planned around big packs and big dishes set in the middle of the table, for a week at about $148.
Lunch and dinner for seven days. The longer recipes land in the evenings and on weekends, and lunches stay short.
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Create my grocery listFor six, cooking two things at once is unmanageable on a weeknight. Every meal here fits in one dish, one pot or one skillet.
Five kilos of potatoes, a kilo of shredded cheese, three kilos of rice: for six, these packs get used up within the week and cost a lot less per kilo.
Lasagna, chicken, gratin, tarts and pizzas: dishes that cook on their own while you set the table.
Tuesday night's chicken turns into Wednesday's lunch fried rice, Sunday's couscous leaves a broth for the soup. Nothing goes to waste at a big table.
An overloaded dish cooks on top and stays lukewarm in the middle. Two medium dishes on the same oven rack cook evenly.
On Monday, peel the potatoes for Monday and Thursday together: covered in cold water in the fridge, they keep three days without turning dark.
For six, bread mops up the end of the dish and saves you a backup meal. It's the cheapest item on the list and the one that always runs out.
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.
Big quantities, grouped grocery runs.
Family of four, dishes to share.
Dishes kids actually finish.
Two hours on Sunday, your week's sorted.
A week for four at the lowest price.
Veggies twice a day, no deprivation.
Three principles are enough: one dish per meal, oven cooking that needs no babysitting, and bulk groceries done once a week. The rest is about rotation: two birds, one ground meat and two vegetarian meals cover fourteen meals without anyone getting bored.
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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