Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 26:15
In this Newsletter
1. Hannah's Corner
2. In the Tip Store - Keep an Eye on those $ Shops, Long Life Lettuce, Salt Lamp Lights the Way
3. Submit Your Tip - Share your favourite tip for a chance to win
4. On the Menu with Anne - Fettuccine with Chicken and Bacon
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy -
6. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
7. Member's Featured Blog - Grocery thing going well so far
8. Join the Cheapskates Club
9. Gift Memberships
10. Frequently Asked Questions
11. Contact Details
1. Hannah's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
This is my last newsletter. Cath (Mum) will be back next week. I’ve really enjoyed getting the newsletter ready for the last five weeks and reading the tips as they come in.
I’ve learned a lot too. I have been in charge of cooking while Mum has been away so I’ve been trying out recipes from the Recipe File. The boys have eaten everything so they must have been OK. I’ve copied the ones I really liked into my recipe book so I can keep on making them. I like cooking and trying new recipes and there are over 1,500 recipes to try, so that will keep me busy for a while J
Happy Cheapskating,
Hannah
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
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2. From The Tip Store
Keep an Eye on those $ Shops
As I now need to eat gluten and dairy free I am finding it difficult to keep costs down as well as find foods I like. I discovered a fantastic cereal from a well-known cereal brand which cost nearly $7 a packet at my local supermarket. Today I found it on special in my local Discount $ shop at $2 per packet. The use by date was October this year, so I bought 5 packets, saving myself $25. I don't eat it every day, so did not buy any more. The brand was the same and it is identical to what I already had at home. I checked by purchasing one packet and then checking it against what I had to ensure I was getting the real deal and then purchasing more.. I had not thought of checking there for cereals!
Contributed by Mary O'Neill
Long Life Lettuce
Does your lettuce go icky seemingly overnight? mine used too and I ended up tossing it on the scrap heap. These days my lettuce is wrapped in a damp tea towel, and placed on/in a Tupperware or similar lettuce container with NO lid, and parked back in the fridge, my current lettuce is nearly three weeks old, if not more,( I was on holidays) and still completely edible.
Contributed by Rosemarie Wheeler
Salt Lamp Lights the Way
After we've had our evening meal, we switch off all lights and only have a salt lamp on in the lounge room when watching TV. The salt lamp is left on during the night and the light can be seen from the bedrooms and toilet thus avoiding to switch on any lights if we have to get up during the night for any reason.
Contributed by Della Bensen
There are currently more than 11,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. Submit Your Tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is over 3,000 pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. 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. We publish a Winning Tip each Thursday, so enter your great money, time or energy saving idea now.
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!
Submit your tip
4. On the Menu with Anne
When I first found this recipe in the Pasta Recipe File, I fell in love. It has everything in it that I like in a winter dinner: hot pasta, cream, cheese, chicken and bacon. And it's so easy to prepare. My family love it, I'm sure yours will too.
Fettuccine with Chicken and Bacon
Ingredients:
3 fresh chicken breast or thigh fillets, thinly sliced.
250g pkt fettuccine or spaghetti
1 tablespoon butter
2 rashers bacon, rind removed and finely chopped
6 spring onions/shallots, chopped
300ml thickened cream
1 chicken stock cube
½ cup grated parmesan cheese
freshly ground black pepper
Method:
Cook pasta in boiling salted water. Heat butter in a large frying pan and add the chicken and bacon; cook until chicken is golden. Lower heat and add remaining ingredients. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring constantly until the sauce has thickened. Drain pasta and fold through sauce. Serve with salad and crusty bread. Extra grated parmesan cheese can also accompany.
This week we will be eating:
Friday: Tuna mornay
Saturday: Sloppy Joes
Sunday: Pot roast, potato, carrots, steamed beans
Monday: Fish, potato wedges, coleslaw
Tuesday: Rissoles, potato, carrots, corn cobs, peas with onion gravy
Wednesday: Fettucine with Chicken and Bacon, tossed salad
Thursday: Haystacks
In the fruit bowl: oranges, apples, pears
In the cake tin: Boiled Fruit Cake, Lunchbox Cookies, Caramel Slice
Do you have a meal planning question? Click here to ask your question, you may see your answer in next week's newsletter.
There are over 1,500 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File.
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy
Stockpiling
Hello fellow Cheapskaters.
As the temperature drops outside, I'm finding lots of comfort in hot casseroles, stews and soups. They warm the body and soul. My slow cooker gets used all year round, but in winter it almost goes into overdrive.
It's great to have a well-stocked pantry, fridge and freezer. It makes it so much easier to feed the family or to change the menu around if things arise. My well stocked pantry came in handy last week as I had a slight disaster in the kitchen. I'd gotten up early last Friday morning to make a chicken curry to put in the slow cooker. I'd already put the cooked chicken in, the vegies were getting a head start in the microwave and all I needed to do was make the liquid up. I opened up a tin of cream of chicken soup to find that it was black and mouldy inside. YUCKY, YUCKY!!!!
I was so shocked at the colour that I tilted the tin to make sure I had the right soup (I thought it must have been mushroom soup) Soup spilled all over the bench and kitchen floor. After cleaning up the mess I realised it was the right soup, but in the wrong condition. Thankfully I had another few tins of the soup in the pantry. I was able to continue making the curry. Phew!!! Later that day I returned the soup to the supermarket for a replacement.
Having spares of the soup meant that nothing was wasted and the meal was not a disaster. Just a slight hiccup in the making.
I've met many people over the years who love to have the bare minimum in their pantries. They have their tins and packages all lined up along the front of the shelves with nothing behind them. Easy to see everything yet so easy to run out. My pantry is not big by any means (some of you have seen it on TV), but it is tidy, clean, well-organised and WELL STOCKED!!!! Ready for any recipe, occasion or disaster.
This week's questions are - How do you stock your pantry? Are you ready for anything?
Have a great week and BE ENCOURAGED!!!!
Click here to go to this week's $300 a Month Food Challenge
Click here to read the post that started it all
6. Cheapskates Buzz
Most popular forum posts this week
First Month Progress
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2876-!st-month-progress
Finish Dishwasher Powder
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2309-Finish-dishwasher-powder
What can I Freeze?
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2834-What-can-I-freeze
Most popular blog posts this week
The World's Easiest and Yummiest Brownies
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/04/worlds-easiest-and-yummiest-brownies.html
Hooray - My Veggies are Going Hairy!
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2010/07/hooray-my-veggies-are-going-hairy.html
A Simple Saving Game where Everyone Wins
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/04/simple-saving-game-where-everyone-wins.html
7. Members Featured Blog
Platinum Cheapskates Club members have their very own Cheapskating blogs, and they are wonderful and inspirational and encouraging and even funny. This week's featured blog is written by school.
Grocery thing going well so far
Well we are now three weeks into our month grocery challenge and all is going well. Hubby said he likes it because when the cereal runs out he just walks around the corner to the new storage cupboard and grabs another one. I actually think we have been more responsible and have eaten less rubbish because we knew it had to last a month. I particularly love it because I'm not madly dashing to the grocery store every week to stock up and spending way too much money.
The monthly meal planning has also invigorated us and we have been cooking yummy wholesome food again with lots of variety. The kids have been trying new things and we haven't been feeling bored or sick of cooking these last three weeks. We also haven't even bought take away once!
So far, so good...thanks Cheapskates!
Login to read more Cheapskates Club Member blogs
8. Join the Cheapskates Club
For just 10 cents a day 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!
9. Gift Memberships
Your family and friends will thank you for a whole year when you give them a Platinum Cheapskates Club membership as a gift.
It's so simple: just select the number of gift memberships required, click the Buy Now button and complete the Gift Membership order form (you must use this form to order gift memberships) and we'll get in touch with you to confirm the gift subscriptions.
Click here to order a gift membership right now!
10. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. Members can update their email address or any other details by clicking on "Edit Profile" directly under their membership number after they have logged in to the Member's Centre. Subscribers to our free newsletter can use the Change Your Address form (under Customer Service in the menu) and fill it out. Once you've filled it in click the send button and we'll do the rest. Please remember to include your old email address so we can find it in the list as well as the new one.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
When you login to the Member's Centre you will be told how many days of membership you have left once you have 30 days left. Just click on the link to renew and your membership will just continue on, uninterrupted.
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.
Read our privacy policy
How Did You Get on Our List?
You signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member
11. Contact Details
The Cheapskates Club -
Showing you how to live life
debt free, cashed up and laughing!
PO Box 5077 Studfield Vic 3152
1. Hannah's Corner
2. In the Tip Store - Keep an Eye on those $ Shops, Long Life Lettuce, Salt Lamp Lights the Way
3. Submit Your Tip - Share your favourite tip for a chance to win
4. On the Menu with Anne - Fettuccine with Chicken and Bacon
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy -
6. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
7. Member's Featured Blog - Grocery thing going well so far
8. Join the Cheapskates Club
9. Gift Memberships
10. Frequently Asked Questions
11. Contact Details
1. Hannah's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
This is my last newsletter. Cath (Mum) will be back next week. I’ve really enjoyed getting the newsletter ready for the last five weeks and reading the tips as they come in.
I’ve learned a lot too. I have been in charge of cooking while Mum has been away so I’ve been trying out recipes from the Recipe File. The boys have eaten everything so they must have been OK. I’ve copied the ones I really liked into my recipe book so I can keep on making them. I like cooking and trying new recipes and there are over 1,500 recipes to try, so that will keep me busy for a while J
Happy Cheapskating,
Hannah
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
PPS: You can read this newsletter and past copies on the website in the Newsletter Archive.
2. From The Tip Store
Keep an Eye on those $ Shops
As I now need to eat gluten and dairy free I am finding it difficult to keep costs down as well as find foods I like. I discovered a fantastic cereal from a well-known cereal brand which cost nearly $7 a packet at my local supermarket. Today I found it on special in my local Discount $ shop at $2 per packet. The use by date was October this year, so I bought 5 packets, saving myself $25. I don't eat it every day, so did not buy any more. The brand was the same and it is identical to what I already had at home. I checked by purchasing one packet and then checking it against what I had to ensure I was getting the real deal and then purchasing more.. I had not thought of checking there for cereals!
Contributed by Mary O'Neill
Long Life Lettuce
Does your lettuce go icky seemingly overnight? mine used too and I ended up tossing it on the scrap heap. These days my lettuce is wrapped in a damp tea towel, and placed on/in a Tupperware or similar lettuce container with NO lid, and parked back in the fridge, my current lettuce is nearly three weeks old, if not more,( I was on holidays) and still completely edible.
Contributed by Rosemarie Wheeler
Salt Lamp Lights the Way
After we've had our evening meal, we switch off all lights and only have a salt lamp on in the lounge room when watching TV. The salt lamp is left on during the night and the light can be seen from the bedrooms and toilet thus avoiding to switch on any lights if we have to get up during the night for any reason.
Contributed by Della Bensen
There are currently more than 11,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. Submit Your Tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is over 3,000 pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. 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. We publish a Winning Tip each Thursday, so enter your great money, time or energy saving idea now.
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!
Submit your tip
4. On the Menu with Anne
When I first found this recipe in the Pasta Recipe File, I fell in love. It has everything in it that I like in a winter dinner: hot pasta, cream, cheese, chicken and bacon. And it's so easy to prepare. My family love it, I'm sure yours will too.
Fettuccine with Chicken and Bacon
Ingredients:
3 fresh chicken breast or thigh fillets, thinly sliced.
250g pkt fettuccine or spaghetti
1 tablespoon butter
2 rashers bacon, rind removed and finely chopped
6 spring onions/shallots, chopped
300ml thickened cream
1 chicken stock cube
½ cup grated parmesan cheese
freshly ground black pepper
Method:
Cook pasta in boiling salted water. Heat butter in a large frying pan and add the chicken and bacon; cook until chicken is golden. Lower heat and add remaining ingredients. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring constantly until the sauce has thickened. Drain pasta and fold through sauce. Serve with salad and crusty bread. Extra grated parmesan cheese can also accompany.
This week we will be eating:
Friday: Tuna mornay
Saturday: Sloppy Joes
Sunday: Pot roast, potato, carrots, steamed beans
Monday: Fish, potato wedges, coleslaw
Tuesday: Rissoles, potato, carrots, corn cobs, peas with onion gravy
Wednesday: Fettucine with Chicken and Bacon, tossed salad
Thursday: Haystacks
In the fruit bowl: oranges, apples, pears
In the cake tin: Boiled Fruit Cake, Lunchbox Cookies, Caramel Slice
Do you have a meal planning question? Click here to ask your question, you may see your answer in next week's newsletter.
There are over 1,500 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File.
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy
Stockpiling
Hello fellow Cheapskaters.
As the temperature drops outside, I'm finding lots of comfort in hot casseroles, stews and soups. They warm the body and soul. My slow cooker gets used all year round, but in winter it almost goes into overdrive.
It's great to have a well-stocked pantry, fridge and freezer. It makes it so much easier to feed the family or to change the menu around if things arise. My well stocked pantry came in handy last week as I had a slight disaster in the kitchen. I'd gotten up early last Friday morning to make a chicken curry to put in the slow cooker. I'd already put the cooked chicken in, the vegies were getting a head start in the microwave and all I needed to do was make the liquid up. I opened up a tin of cream of chicken soup to find that it was black and mouldy inside. YUCKY, YUCKY!!!!
I was so shocked at the colour that I tilted the tin to make sure I had the right soup (I thought it must have been mushroom soup) Soup spilled all over the bench and kitchen floor. After cleaning up the mess I realised it was the right soup, but in the wrong condition. Thankfully I had another few tins of the soup in the pantry. I was able to continue making the curry. Phew!!! Later that day I returned the soup to the supermarket for a replacement.
Having spares of the soup meant that nothing was wasted and the meal was not a disaster. Just a slight hiccup in the making.
I've met many people over the years who love to have the bare minimum in their pantries. They have their tins and packages all lined up along the front of the shelves with nothing behind them. Easy to see everything yet so easy to run out. My pantry is not big by any means (some of you have seen it on TV), but it is tidy, clean, well-organised and WELL STOCKED!!!! Ready for any recipe, occasion or disaster.
This week's questions are - How do you stock your pantry? Are you ready for anything?
Have a great week and BE ENCOURAGED!!!!
Click here to go to this week's $300 a Month Food Challenge
Click here to read the post that started it all
6. Cheapskates Buzz
Most popular forum posts this week
First Month Progress
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2876-!st-month-progress
Finish Dishwasher Powder
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2309-Finish-dishwasher-powder
What can I Freeze?
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?2834-What-can-I-freeze
Most popular blog posts this week
The World's Easiest and Yummiest Brownies
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/04/worlds-easiest-and-yummiest-brownies.html
Hooray - My Veggies are Going Hairy!
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2010/07/hooray-my-veggies-are-going-hairy.html
A Simple Saving Game where Everyone Wins
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/04/simple-saving-game-where-everyone-wins.html
7. Members Featured Blog
Platinum Cheapskates Club members have their very own Cheapskating blogs, and they are wonderful and inspirational and encouraging and even funny. This week's featured blog is written by school.
Grocery thing going well so far
Well we are now three weeks into our month grocery challenge and all is going well. Hubby said he likes it because when the cereal runs out he just walks around the corner to the new storage cupboard and grabs another one. I actually think we have been more responsible and have eaten less rubbish because we knew it had to last a month. I particularly love it because I'm not madly dashing to the grocery store every week to stock up and spending way too much money.
The monthly meal planning has also invigorated us and we have been cooking yummy wholesome food again with lots of variety. The kids have been trying new things and we haven't been feeling bored or sick of cooking these last three weeks. We also haven't even bought take away once!
So far, so good...thanks Cheapskates!
Login to read more Cheapskates Club Member blogs
8. Join the Cheapskates Club
For just 10 cents a day 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!
9. Gift Memberships
Your family and friends will thank you for a whole year when you give them a Platinum Cheapskates Club membership as a gift.
It's so simple: just select the number of gift memberships required, click the Buy Now button and complete the Gift Membership order form (you must use this form to order gift memberships) and we'll get in touch with you to confirm the gift subscriptions.
Click here to order a gift membership right now!
10. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. Members can update their email address or any other details by clicking on "Edit Profile" directly under their membership number after they have logged in to the Member's Centre. Subscribers to our free newsletter can use the Change Your Address form (under Customer Service in the menu) and fill it out. Once you've filled it in click the send button and we'll do the rest. Please remember to include your old email address so we can find it in the list as well as the new one.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
When you login to the Member's Centre you will be told how many days of membership you have left once you have 30 days left. Just click on the link to renew and your membership will just continue on, uninterrupted.
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.
Read our privacy policy
How Did You Get on Our List?
You signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member
11. Contact Details
The Cheapskates Club -
Showing you how to live life
debt free, cashed up and laughing!
PO Box 5077 Studfield Vic 3152