Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 25:20
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Innovative Laundry Trolley; Food Swapping; What Can You Make From One Frugal Chicken Dinner
3. Tip of the Month May 2020 - 10 Dinners for Three for $30
4. Tip of the Week - Cutting the Cheese
5. Share Your Tips
6. On the Menu - Cheesy Chicken Enchiladas Two Ways
7. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - How Do I Get My Grocery Bill Down?
8. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Hope you're having a great week and enjoying living the Cheapskates way. Right now, living a more deliberate, frugal lifestyle is popular - who knew we'd be trendsetters!
The last few months have been scary, I think everyone has been scared, even if they weren't visibly shaking and nervous. And that's OK. But now it's time to knuckle down and look to the future. Whether that future is sunshine and lollipops or a depression or a second wave of Covid19 or just the washing machine overflowing, you can get through it.
Make some plans to keep building your pantry, growing your garden, building those savings and paying down that debt. Then work the plans. Be a preparer and look forward to the challenges that are yet to come, because you are strong, you are determined, you are a Cheapskate and you can face the future with confidence and grace.
And if you forget, just check into Cheapskates central for inspiration.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Innovative Laundry Trolley
Approximate $ Savings: At least $15 for a new trolley
I had gone through two laundry trolleys due to wheels breaking and falling off. I was about to buy a third one when my clever neighbour suggested a baby stroller. I picked one up in great condition for $10 at a second hand shop. It has heavy duty wheels, is easy to manoeuvre and I have a stroller on hand if it is needed for friends or visitors. You may need a round laundry basket to fit in the stroller seat but these can be picked up cheaply if you shop around. I already had one so did not need to outlay extra for that. I am very happy with my ten dollar heavy duty laundry trolley.
Contributed by Deb
Food Swapping
I have a lemon tree and four chickens. Both produce too much for us so I thought I would advertise on the buy swap and sell website that I have a dozen free range eggs and I would be happy to swap for any other grown produce. I had people offer home grown pumpkins, other people offer apples and the list went on. So for a dozen eggs I received two pumpkins and for 12 lemons I received a bag of green apples. Pumpkin soup for tea and apple pie for desert. Made a few new friends as well.
Contributed by Joanne
What Can You Make From One Frugal Chicken Dinner
Approximate $ Savings: $10 per week
Our family of 3 has a roast every Sunday night. I take all the chicken off the bone serve up our roast dinner. With the left overs I will separate them into 2 Tupperware containers, (it's not heaps but it goes along way). The next night I make the penny pinching pizza base and we have a chicken, onion, cheese and whatever sauces are in the fridge pizza...always a favourite. The next night we have chicken soup, as I mentioned above there isn't heaps of chicken although I add soup mix and veggies to this and sometimes penne pasta and that's another tasty dinner at a fraction of the price. I buy the frozen chicken at Aldi.
Contributed by Erin
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3. Tip Of The Month May 2020
Congratulations go to Kylie Host for winning the May tip competition. Kylie's tip for stretching meals, bringing the cost down to just $1 a serve, is so timely. Cooks all over not just Australia but the world are looking at ways to get more for their grocery dollars right now, and what better way than to stretch what you have.
10 Dinners for Three for $30We are a family of three and I alternate between using half a kilo of 2 star Aldi mince at $4.50 and one fresh whole chicken at $5.50 each week to make seven days of adult serve dinners.
Mince week:
I make spaghetti bol using 500g mince, onion, two cloves garlic, one carrot, one zucchini, half dozen medium mushrooms, one red capsicum, stick celery, jar passata, couple tablespoons tomato paste, can lentils and half pack spaghetti.
Day one - spag bol
Day two - use puff pastry to make pies, add cheese as well.
Day three - add taco seasoning to mince and bake potatoes whole, add mince, sour cream and cheese.
Chicken week:
Day one -roast chicken, baked potato, sweet potato and pumpkin, boiled carrot and broccoli.
Day two - chicken wraps using Aldi wraps, lettuce, aioli, sliced tomato, cucumber and cheese.
Day three - chicken pasta - half bag pasta, homemade cheese sauce, chopped chicken, chopped vegies.
Day four - chicken soup - boil frame to make stock, add whatever vegies you have, soup mix, garlic, ginger and whatever herbs or spices you have. We usually get 3 nights of dinners out of the soup.
We don't always eat all these meals in the one week. Sometimes I freeze some of the bolognaise sauce to eat the next week.
4. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Nicole Harrison. Nicole has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
Cutting the Cheese
Our family loves cheese, and we go through the large blocks in no time at all which can get quite costly. It doesn’t help that some days it’s impossible to cut the cheese into thin, even slices, and instead we end up with wedges, meaning we use more than required. To help with this, I use a veggie peeler on the block of cheese. I get nice thin, even slices, so we use less each time, and save money in the long term since we don’t have to buy new blocks as often.
Congratulations Nciole, I hope you enjoy your Cheapskates Club membership.
The Cheapskate's Club website is thousands of pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. There are over 12,000 tips to save you money, time and energy; 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes, hundreds of printable tip sheets and ebooks.
Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club.
5. Share Your Tips
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Share Your Tip
6. On The Menu
Cheesy Chicken Enchiladas Two Ways
Today I'm sharing a recipe for chicken enchiladas - the original recipe, and then my version that I've adapted to suit our tastes and my grocery budget. Either way they're good so choose which one you like and enjoy!The Original Recipe: Cheesy Chicken EnchiladasFilling
Ingredients:
2 tbsp canola oil
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup green capsicum, diced
1kg chicken breast fillets, skin off and diced
1/2 cup water
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp paprika
1-1/2 cups grated cheese
2 cups cooked brown rice
Method:
In a heavy skillet, heat oil on medium high, then add chopped onion and bell pepper. When onions are translucent, add cut up chicken and cook on medium until browned. Add water and spices, cover and let simmer about 10 minutes, or until cooked through.Zesty Enchilada SauceIngredients:
2 tbsp canola oil
2 tbsp plain flour
2 tbsp chilli powder
180g can tomato paste
2 cups chicken stock
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Method:
First make a roux by heating oil in a heavy saucepan or skillet over high heat, then lowering to medium low and whisking in flour. After whisking for about 2 minutes, you should start to see tiny bubbles forming and the color darkening. Add the chili powder and continue to whisk until fully mixed.
Slowly pour in the chicken broth, turning heat back up to medium. Add tomato paste, garlic powder, cumin, onion powder and salt, stirring until smooth. Simmer for 10 minutes, or until slightly thickened. Sauce can be used right away or stored in the refrigerator for up to three days.
Note: Make sure to get the rice cooking as well. Pour 2 cups water and one cup long grain brown rice into a saucepan. Stir and cover, bringing to a boil on high heat. Lower to medium and simmer for around 35 minutes, until all the water is absorbed.
Putting it All Together
Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius. Pour a thin layer of Enchilada Sauce in the bottom of a lightly oiled baking dish. For each enchilada lay out a tortilla, spoon in rice, chicken mixture and a sprinkle of grated cheese. Roll up the tortilla and lay in baking dish with the seam down. Repeat with the other enchiladas and filling. Pour the remainder of the enchilada sauce over the enchiladas. Top with a layer of grated cheese. Cover with foil and bake in the centre of the oven for 15 minutes, until they are heated through and the cheese is melted.
These enchiladas are great served immediately, and even better warmed up the next day.How I've adapted the recipe to suit my grocery budget:Ingredients:
1 tbsp canola oil
1 brown onion, diced
1/2 green capsicum, diced
2 chicken breast fillets, skin off and diced
1 tin baked beans in tomato sauce
1/2 cup water
3 tsp MOO Taco Seasoning
1 cup grated cheese
2 cups cooked rice
10 tortillas or wraps or Mountain Bread (whatever you have)
1 tin of tomato soup or 1 jar of homemade tomato sauce
Method:
Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan. Brown the chicken in batches. Remove from the pan and sauté the onion and capsicum. Return the chicken to the pan and add the baked beans, water, taco seasoning and simmer for about 5 minutes until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce has thickened. Stir through the rice and half the grated cheese.
Spray a baking dish with cooking spray. Spread half the tomato soup over the base of the baking dish.
Lay out the tortillas and divide the filling evenly between them. Roll them up and place in the baking dish seam side down. Pour the remaining tomato soup over the top. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Cover with foil and bake in a moderate oven for 25 minutes. Remove foil, return to oven for 5 - 10 minutes until cheese is melted and golden.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Swedish Meatballs, mash, white sauce
Tuesday: Chicken & Mushroom Carbonara
Wednesday: Meatloaf, vegetables, mushroom gravy
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Meat pie, mash, peas, gravy
Saturday: Enchiladas
There are over 1,700 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
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7. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Every day I am asked "how do I get my grocery bill down?", it's something everyone wants to know.
Your grocery bill is the one bill you have absolute control over. You, and you alone, decide just how much money you spend on groceries each week. You choose what to buy, the brands you buy, the quantities you buy and where you buy those things.
So with those choices in mind, here's an outline of the strategies you can use to get your grocery bill down.
1. Clean, organize and inventory your pantry, fridge and freezer. Cheapskates Club members can login and use the downloadable inventories on the Printable page.
2. Decide how much you are going to spend and set your grocery budget. It doesn't have to be the amount you are spending now. Try trimming last week's grocery bill by 10 per cent to start. If that works, next time you shop take another 10 per cent off and see if that works. Keep going until you find you aren't buying everything you need, then add 10 per cent and stick to it for a few weeks. If it works, great, that's your optimal grocery budget. If after a few weeks you find it doesn't work, add 5 per cent and see if that makes a difference.
3. Create a meal plan. Whether it's weekly, fortnightly or monthly you need a meal plan. It is easier to work a meal plan to fit your shopping routine so if you shop weekly, meal plan weekly. If you shop monthly like I do, work on a monthly meal plan. Login and download the current month's blank meal planner and my meal plan for the month to make meal planning easy.
4. Collect the junk mail, the local papers and get online to find the store ads. Use them to write your shopping list and more importantly to familiarize yourself with the sale cycle, and just what comes on sale.
5. Stock up on staples. Every family has different staples, foods they always have on hand. Use these staples to start your grocery stockpile, buying one or two extra staples each time you shop and stocking up when they come on sale. Items such as baking goods, meat, breakfast cereals, toiletries, cleaning supplies, canned or frozen foods are usually staples in most homes and are a good starting point.
6. Donate your extras. Cheapskates live by the 10-10-80 rule: give 10 per cent, save 10 per cent and live off 80 per cent. Use some of your stockpile to donate to food banks and soup kitchens in your area. You don't need to give money, you can be generous with your time, skills and energy too.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
8. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
3 Great Reasons To Grow Your Own Salad
Use It Up Challenge
Making Vinegar
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
It Doesn't Have to be Perfect!
About Storing Flour
Spare Flat Sheets
Most Popular Blog Posts This Week
Is It Really Cheaper to Make Your Own Cleaning Products
Lunchbox Cookies
7 Freezer Meals 1 Hour
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
Join us live on YouTube every Tuesday and Thursday and see how we are living debt free, cashed up and laughing - and find out how you can too!
Show Schedule
Tuesday: Around the Kitchen Table - join Cath and Hannah for a cuppa and a chat around the kitchen table as they talk about living the Cheapskates way.
Latest Shows
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Innovative Laundry Trolley; Food Swapping; What Can You Make From One Frugal Chicken Dinner
3. Tip of the Month May 2020 - 10 Dinners for Three for $30
4. Tip of the Week - Cutting the Cheese
5. Share Your Tips
6. On the Menu - Cheesy Chicken Enchiladas Two Ways
7. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - How Do I Get My Grocery Bill Down?
8. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
10. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Hope you're having a great week and enjoying living the Cheapskates way. Right now, living a more deliberate, frugal lifestyle is popular - who knew we'd be trendsetters!
The last few months have been scary, I think everyone has been scared, even if they weren't visibly shaking and nervous. And that's OK. But now it's time to knuckle down and look to the future. Whether that future is sunshine and lollipops or a depression or a second wave of Covid19 or just the washing machine overflowing, you can get through it.
Make some plans to keep building your pantry, growing your garden, building those savings and paying down that debt. Then work the plans. Be a preparer and look forward to the challenges that are yet to come, because you are strong, you are determined, you are a Cheapskate and you can face the future with confidence and grace.
And if you forget, just check into Cheapskates central for inspiration.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Innovative Laundry Trolley
Approximate $ Savings: At least $15 for a new trolley
I had gone through two laundry trolleys due to wheels breaking and falling off. I was about to buy a third one when my clever neighbour suggested a baby stroller. I picked one up in great condition for $10 at a second hand shop. It has heavy duty wheels, is easy to manoeuvre and I have a stroller on hand if it is needed for friends or visitors. You may need a round laundry basket to fit in the stroller seat but these can be picked up cheaply if you shop around. I already had one so did not need to outlay extra for that. I am very happy with my ten dollar heavy duty laundry trolley.
Contributed by Deb
Food Swapping
I have a lemon tree and four chickens. Both produce too much for us so I thought I would advertise on the buy swap and sell website that I have a dozen free range eggs and I would be happy to swap for any other grown produce. I had people offer home grown pumpkins, other people offer apples and the list went on. So for a dozen eggs I received two pumpkins and for 12 lemons I received a bag of green apples. Pumpkin soup for tea and apple pie for desert. Made a few new friends as well.
Contributed by Joanne
What Can You Make From One Frugal Chicken Dinner
Approximate $ Savings: $10 per week
Our family of 3 has a roast every Sunday night. I take all the chicken off the bone serve up our roast dinner. With the left overs I will separate them into 2 Tupperware containers, (it's not heaps but it goes along way). The next night I make the penny pinching pizza base and we have a chicken, onion, cheese and whatever sauces are in the fridge pizza...always a favourite. The next night we have chicken soup, as I mentioned above there isn't heaps of chicken although I add soup mix and veggies to this and sometimes penne pasta and that's another tasty dinner at a fraction of the price. I buy the frozen chicken at Aldi.
Contributed by Erin
Add a Tip
3. Tip Of The Month May 2020
Congratulations go to Kylie Host for winning the May tip competition. Kylie's tip for stretching meals, bringing the cost down to just $1 a serve, is so timely. Cooks all over not just Australia but the world are looking at ways to get more for their grocery dollars right now, and what better way than to stretch what you have.
10 Dinners for Three for $30We are a family of three and I alternate between using half a kilo of 2 star Aldi mince at $4.50 and one fresh whole chicken at $5.50 each week to make seven days of adult serve dinners.
Mince week:
I make spaghetti bol using 500g mince, onion, two cloves garlic, one carrot, one zucchini, half dozen medium mushrooms, one red capsicum, stick celery, jar passata, couple tablespoons tomato paste, can lentils and half pack spaghetti.
Day one - spag bol
Day two - use puff pastry to make pies, add cheese as well.
Day three - add taco seasoning to mince and bake potatoes whole, add mince, sour cream and cheese.
Chicken week:
Day one -roast chicken, baked potato, sweet potato and pumpkin, boiled carrot and broccoli.
Day two - chicken wraps using Aldi wraps, lettuce, aioli, sliced tomato, cucumber and cheese.
Day three - chicken pasta - half bag pasta, homemade cheese sauce, chopped chicken, chopped vegies.
Day four - chicken soup - boil frame to make stock, add whatever vegies you have, soup mix, garlic, ginger and whatever herbs or spices you have. We usually get 3 nights of dinners out of the soup.
We don't always eat all these meals in the one week. Sometimes I freeze some of the bolognaise sauce to eat the next week.
4. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Nicole Harrison. Nicole has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
Cutting the Cheese
Our family loves cheese, and we go through the large blocks in no time at all which can get quite costly. It doesn’t help that some days it’s impossible to cut the cheese into thin, even slices, and instead we end up with wedges, meaning we use more than required. To help with this, I use a veggie peeler on the block of cheese. I get nice thin, even slices, so we use less each time, and save money in the long term since we don’t have to buy new blocks as often.
Congratulations Nciole, I hope you enjoy your Cheapskates Club membership.
The Cheapskate's Club website is thousands of pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. There are over 12,000 tips to save you money, time and energy; 1,600 budget and family friendly recipes, hundreds of printable tip sheets and ebooks.
Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club.
5. Share Your Tips
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Share Your Tip
6. On The Menu
Cheesy Chicken Enchiladas Two Ways
Today I'm sharing a recipe for chicken enchiladas - the original recipe, and then my version that I've adapted to suit our tastes and my grocery budget. Either way they're good so choose which one you like and enjoy!The Original Recipe: Cheesy Chicken EnchiladasFilling
Ingredients:
2 tbsp canola oil
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup green capsicum, diced
1kg chicken breast fillets, skin off and diced
1/2 cup water
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp paprika
1-1/2 cups grated cheese
2 cups cooked brown rice
Method:
In a heavy skillet, heat oil on medium high, then add chopped onion and bell pepper. When onions are translucent, add cut up chicken and cook on medium until browned. Add water and spices, cover and let simmer about 10 minutes, or until cooked through.Zesty Enchilada SauceIngredients:
2 tbsp canola oil
2 tbsp plain flour
2 tbsp chilli powder
180g can tomato paste
2 cups chicken stock
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Method:
First make a roux by heating oil in a heavy saucepan or skillet over high heat, then lowering to medium low and whisking in flour. After whisking for about 2 minutes, you should start to see tiny bubbles forming and the color darkening. Add the chili powder and continue to whisk until fully mixed.
Slowly pour in the chicken broth, turning heat back up to medium. Add tomato paste, garlic powder, cumin, onion powder and salt, stirring until smooth. Simmer for 10 minutes, or until slightly thickened. Sauce can be used right away or stored in the refrigerator for up to three days.
Note: Make sure to get the rice cooking as well. Pour 2 cups water and one cup long grain brown rice into a saucepan. Stir and cover, bringing to a boil on high heat. Lower to medium and simmer for around 35 minutes, until all the water is absorbed.
Putting it All Together
Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius. Pour a thin layer of Enchilada Sauce in the bottom of a lightly oiled baking dish. For each enchilada lay out a tortilla, spoon in rice, chicken mixture and a sprinkle of grated cheese. Roll up the tortilla and lay in baking dish with the seam down. Repeat with the other enchiladas and filling. Pour the remainder of the enchilada sauce over the enchiladas. Top with a layer of grated cheese. Cover with foil and bake in the centre of the oven for 15 minutes, until they are heated through and the cheese is melted.
These enchiladas are great served immediately, and even better warmed up the next day.How I've adapted the recipe to suit my grocery budget:Ingredients:
1 tbsp canola oil
1 brown onion, diced
1/2 green capsicum, diced
2 chicken breast fillets, skin off and diced
1 tin baked beans in tomato sauce
1/2 cup water
3 tsp MOO Taco Seasoning
1 cup grated cheese
2 cups cooked rice
10 tortillas or wraps or Mountain Bread (whatever you have)
1 tin of tomato soup or 1 jar of homemade tomato sauce
Method:
Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan. Brown the chicken in batches. Remove from the pan and sauté the onion and capsicum. Return the chicken to the pan and add the baked beans, water, taco seasoning and simmer for about 5 minutes until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce has thickened. Stir through the rice and half the grated cheese.
Spray a baking dish with cooking spray. Spread half the tomato soup over the base of the baking dish.
Lay out the tortillas and divide the filling evenly between them. Roll them up and place in the baking dish seam side down. Pour the remaining tomato soup over the top. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Cover with foil and bake in a moderate oven for 25 minutes. Remove foil, return to oven for 5 - 10 minutes until cheese is melted and golden.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Swedish Meatballs, mash, white sauce
Tuesday: Chicken & Mushroom Carbonara
Wednesday: Meatloaf, vegetables, mushroom gravy
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Meat pie, mash, peas, gravy
Saturday: Enchiladas
There are over 1,700 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
7. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Every day I am asked "how do I get my grocery bill down?", it's something everyone wants to know.
Your grocery bill is the one bill you have absolute control over. You, and you alone, decide just how much money you spend on groceries each week. You choose what to buy, the brands you buy, the quantities you buy and where you buy those things.
So with those choices in mind, here's an outline of the strategies you can use to get your grocery bill down.
1. Clean, organize and inventory your pantry, fridge and freezer. Cheapskates Club members can login and use the downloadable inventories on the Printable page.
2. Decide how much you are going to spend and set your grocery budget. It doesn't have to be the amount you are spending now. Try trimming last week's grocery bill by 10 per cent to start. If that works, next time you shop take another 10 per cent off and see if that works. Keep going until you find you aren't buying everything you need, then add 10 per cent and stick to it for a few weeks. If it works, great, that's your optimal grocery budget. If after a few weeks you find it doesn't work, add 5 per cent and see if that makes a difference.
3. Create a meal plan. Whether it's weekly, fortnightly or monthly you need a meal plan. It is easier to work a meal plan to fit your shopping routine so if you shop weekly, meal plan weekly. If you shop monthly like I do, work on a monthly meal plan. Login and download the current month's blank meal planner and my meal plan for the month to make meal planning easy.
4. Collect the junk mail, the local papers and get online to find the store ads. Use them to write your shopping list and more importantly to familiarize yourself with the sale cycle, and just what comes on sale.
5. Stock up on staples. Every family has different staples, foods they always have on hand. Use these staples to start your grocery stockpile, buying one or two extra staples each time you shop and stocking up when they come on sale. Items such as baking goods, meat, breakfast cereals, toiletries, cleaning supplies, canned or frozen foods are usually staples in most homes and are a good starting point.
6. Donate your extras. Cheapskates live by the 10-10-80 rule: give 10 per cent, save 10 per cent and live off 80 per cent. Use some of your stockpile to donate to food banks and soup kitchens in your area. You don't need to give money, you can be generous with your time, skills and energy too.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
8. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
3 Great Reasons To Grow Your Own Salad
Use It Up Challenge
Making Vinegar
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
It Doesn't Have to be Perfect!
About Storing Flour
Spare Flat Sheets
Most Popular Blog Posts This Week
Is It Really Cheaper to Make Your Own Cleaning Products
Lunchbox Cookies
7 Freezer Meals 1 Hour
9. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
Join us live on YouTube every Tuesday and Thursday and see how we are living debt free, cashed up and laughing - and find out how you can too!
Show Schedule
Tuesday: Around the Kitchen Table - join Cath and Hannah for a cuppa and a chat around the kitchen table as they talk about living the Cheapskates way.
Latest Shows
10. Ask A Question
We have lots of resources to help you as you live the Cheapskates way but if you didn't find the answer to your question in our extensive archives please just drop me a note with your question.
I read and answer all questions, either in an email to you, in my weekly newsletter, the monthly Journal or by creating blog posts and other resources to help you (and other Cheapskaters).
Ask Your Question
11. Join The Cheapskates Club
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Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
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Contact Cheapskates
We have lots of resources to help you as you live the Cheapskates way but if you didn't find the answer to your question in our extensive archives please just drop me a note with your question.
I read and answer all questions, either in an email to you, in my weekly newsletter, the monthly Journal or by creating blog posts and other resources to help you (and other Cheapskaters).
Ask Your Question
11. Join The Cheapskates Club
For just $25 a year, you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
12. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name at the top of the page to go straight to your profile page where you can update your details, change your password and find your subscription details.
Not a Cheapskates Club member? Then please use the Changing Details form found here to update your email address.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
Memberships are active for one year from the date of joining. You will be sent a renewal reminder before your subscription is due to renew. You can also find your membership expiry date on your profile page.
When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name to go straight to your profile page where you can will find your join date and your expiry date.
What will you do with my email address?
We never rent, trade or sell our email list to anyone for any reason whatsoever. You'll never get an unsolicited email from a stranger as a result of joining this list.
How did I get on this list?
The only way you can get onto our newsletter mailing list is to subscribe yourself. You signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member.
13. Contact Cheapskates
The Cheapskates Club -
Showing you how to live life
debt free, cashed up and laughing!
PO Box 5077 Studfield Vic 3152
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