The Cheapskates Club
Groceries & Food
Feed your family well for less Grocery shopping, meal planning, recipes, food budgets and practical ways to make every ingredient you buy work harder.
What are you looking for?
Choose the food or grocery problem you want to work on and go straight to useful resources.
Grocery Shopping & Super Shopping
Shopping lists, price books, buying habits and smarter ways to tackle the supermarket.
Grocery Budgets
Set a realistic food budget, avoid common traps and make deliberate choices at the checkout.
Meal Planning
Plan meals around what you have, reduce top-up shops and take the daily “what’s for dinner?” pressure away.
Recipes & Cooking
Budget-friendly family cooking, from everyday dinners to baking and homemade alternatives.
Freezer, Food Waste & Use-It-First
Use what you have, rescue leftovers and keep the freezer working as part of the grocery budget.
Emergency Meals & Pantry Cooking
Keep reliable backup meals on hand so tired, busy or difficult days do not turn into expensive food emergencies.
A good place to begin
Start Here
Super Shopper $300 a Month
Start with the complete Cheapskates grocery system: reset what you have, set the budget, meal plan and shop deliberately.
Start the challenge →Recipe File
Use the full Cheapskates recipe collection when you need practical family meals built around ordinary ingredients.
Browse recipes →Meal Plan Archive
When deciding what to cook is the problem, borrow a plan and adapt it to the food already in your pantry, fridge and freezer.
Browse meal plans →Make a Price Book
Stop guessing whether a special is really a bargain by keeping the prices of the groceries your household buys most often.
Set up a price book →New, current & useful now
Current Grocery Help
Groceries & Super Shopping
Browse the full collection of Cheapskates articles on grocery shopping, supermarket strategies, food budgets and buying well.
Browse the articles →Weekly Super Shopper Challenges
Keep the grocery system working with one focused skill at a time, from pantry resets to shopping rhythm and meal buffers.
See weekly challenges →Ditch the Freezer
Turn stored food back into meals, free up freezer space and stop money disappearing into forgotten food.
Continue the challenge →Latest Tips 2026
Check the newest Cheapskates tips for food, shopping, household spending and everyday savings.
See latest tips →Put the ideas into practice
Programs & Challenges
Super Shopper $300 a Month
The core Cheapskates grocery-budget program for planning, buying and using food deliberately.
Open program →Super Shopper Weekly Challenges
Practise one grocery-saving skill at a time and keep the system working all year.
Browse challenges →Ditch the Freezer
Use freezer contents with purpose and move useful food back into regular meal plans.
Open challenge →All Programs & Challenges
Browse the complete collection of current and archived Cheapskates programs.
View all →The deeper library
Browse the Full Food Collections
Recipes & Meal Planning
Go straight to the large recipe and menu collections when you want ideas rather than a single article.
Recipe File → Meal Plan Archive → $75 a Week Meal Plan →Shopping & Grocery Tools
Use the practical Cheapskates tools when you need help planning the shop, checking prices or tracking what you spend.
Tip Sheets → Price Book → Groceries in the Tip Store →Core Food Systems
Return to these resources when you want the bigger systems that hold grocery spending and food use together.
Super Shopper → Weekly Challenges → Ditch the Freezer →