Mondayday 1
Lunch
Bulgur, chickpea & feta salad, prepped Sunday
5 min
Dinner
Chili con carne & rice, reheated
10 min
Two hours on Sunday, then fourteen meals for four that come together in fifteen minutes flat, every night of the week. Ready-made sessions: our meal prep plans (vegetarian, cheap, no oven, in 1 h 30). For your own week, Popotam makes you a timed meal prep plan.
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 listChicken, roast and roasted vegetables take turns while you prep the rest. Over two hours, the oven works for a hundred minutes: it's what produces the most.
First what cooks for a long time, then what simmers, last what gets chopped cold. Following that order is what makes the difference between two hours and four.
The dal and a serving of chili go into the freezer on Sunday. They come back out on Friday, the day motivation is at its lowest.
Cooked rice, roasted vegetables, tomato sauce, pizza dough: components that mix and match. A dish fully finished on Sunday is inedible by Thursday.
Before you even get the ingredients out: the oven takes fifteen minutes to heat up, the pasta water ten. Those are the only two things you can't speed up.
A dish that's still warm in the fridge condenses and goes bad faster. Spread it in a wide dish, and get it in the fridge within two hours: it then keeps two days, and whatever gets eaten later goes in the freezer.
A strip of masking tape and a marker. Without a label, half the prep ends up forgotten behind a carton of milk.
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.
Family of four, dishes to share.
Everything in 25 minutes max.
Every ingredient used up within the week.
Big quantities, grouped grocery runs.
A week for four at the lowest price.
Two days for a prepared dish, just one for fish, as long as you got it into the fridge within two hours: ANSES (the French food safety agency) recommends eating prepared dishes within three days. Beyond that, you need to freeze, then thaw in the fridge the night before: that's why this menu sends dishes to the freezer on Sunday for the end of the week.
No, but two things really help: enough airtight containers to store everything, and two baking dishes that can go in the oven at the same time. The rest, a knife, a big pot and a sheet pan, you already have.
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.
Nope. No sign-up, no email, no ads. Your meal plan lives online, behind a secret link only you know.