Mondayday 1
Lunch
Veggie croque-monsieur with mozzarella, pesto & tomato slices
12 min
Dinner
Plant-based lentil spaghetti bolognese
25 min
14 meat-free meals for four, built around what kids actually eat: gratins, burgers, crêpes and homemade pizza.
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 listNuggets, burgers, croque-monsieur, crêpes, pizza: these are the dishes they ask for, and the homemade version just happens to be meat-free.
Gratins and pizzas bring protein through dairy. Nobody notices the meat is missing when there's béchamel.
The lentils in the bolognese and the beans in the burgers are blended or mashed: the texture is familiar, and that's what counts at the table.
It's in the sauce, in the gratin or on the side as a salad, never served alone in front of a kid who's already shutting down.
A meal kids put together themselves gets eaten without arguing. The fillings go in the middle of the table, everyone builds their own.
It freezes really well and saves a weeknight the following week. The same pot twice over for two meals.
Shape the chickpea patties in the morning and let them wait in the fridge. At night, all that's left is eight minutes of cooking.
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.
No meat or fish, and filling.
Dishes kids actually finish.
Family of four, dishes to share.
Meat-free for $43 a week.
Five ingredients, zero technique.
A week for four at the lowest price.
Keep the shapes they know instead of changing everything at once. Burgers, nuggets, gratin, pizza and crêpes stay what they are, and the protein changes quietly. This menu never serves a legume on its own on the plate.
Yes for fourteen meat-free meals, because the expensive items are the dairy, not the main protein. An equivalent menu with meat at every dinner goes well over $78.
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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