Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 31:19
In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Stretching Hot Chocolate for Winter Warmers; Delicious Pickled Veggies; Making Butter Less Expensive
3. This Week's Winning Tip - Re/cycled Roast
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Chicken Alfredo Roll-Ups
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Deli Counter v Deli Cabinet
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show - Join Cath & Hannah on You Tube every Tuesday and Thursdaly
9. This Week's Question - Food Allergies and the $300 a Month Food Challenge
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,
How are you all getting on living the Cheapskates way? Sometimes it's a breeze, and sometimes it's a challenge. Right now for us, it's a challenge. Ho hum!
We have quite a few things going on at the moment; only a couple have been planned (my trip to Tassie is one of them). The rest have come out of the blue and Every. Single. One. is a big expense. So far this month we've have had a major household expense (~$1,500 - $1,800) and a major car repair ($1,800), discovered we need to replace a roof rack (~$1,000) and a couple of medical bills that have been slightly bigger than anticipated ($834). To say our budget has taken a hit is an understatement.
But all the bills have been paid in full and on time, including these "extras", thanks to a working budget and a good emergency fund to back it up. Without our budget that includes categories for household repairs and replacements, car maintenance and medical expenses and without the savings in our emergency fund, we would have been resorting to either "rob Peter to pay Paul" or using credit and spending a long time playing catch-up and chasing our tails.
Each month when we review our budget, I'm tempted to ignore the categories that don't see a lot of traffic - namely household maintenance, car maintenance and medical. It is so tempting, when we rarely need to dip into those categories, to skip adding to them and just spend the money on other things. Ditto adding to our emergency fund.
Right now, today, 31st July 2019 (yes, I'm writing this a day early) I am so grateful that we haven't ever skipped adding to these budget categories. Because we've faithfully added to them, even if we've thought they were big enough, we have been able to pay the bills as they came in, without stressing or needing to rejig other categories or even skip paying other bills.
Living the Cheapskates way isn't easy at times. It means we need to be diligent in our spending and saving. But it also means that when life goes a little pear-shaped, we can and will survive and come out in front - still debt free, cashed up and laughing.
If you think it's not worth building your budget categories, or increasing your emergency fund, remember the last few weeks we've had, and that we have been able to pay for them without hesitating or stressing.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Stretching Hot Chocolate for Winter Warmers
Our family in Canberra love hot chocolate in winter. To buy it already made up it can be expensive and it’s quite sweet. Now I buy one container of hot chocolate. Tip it into bowl and whisk in 1/2 a packet of Home Brand cocoa. Everyone enjoys the slightly richer taste and it’s getting to the stage where I can see us using just plain cocoa. Even better with homemade marshmallows
Contributed by Karen Johnson
Delicious Pickled Veggies
I recently bought some pickles to add to hamburgers. When they were finished I was left with a lot of yummy pickling liquid. It seemed such a waste to throw it out so I added some chopped up carrots and zucchinis that needed to be used up. I left them in the fridge for a couple of days then tried them - delicious! I used raw vegetables because I like the crunch but think using parboiled veggies would also work well if you prefer them softer.
Contributed by Fiona Masters
Note: Just make sure your brine is clean - no floaties from spoons or forks - before you add extra veg. And if the brine goes cloudy or develops a skin, don't use it. Otherwise, I've done the same thing and Fiona is right, they are delicious, especially on a cheese board. Cath
Making Butter Less Expensive
Butter is so expensive nowadays, I have gone back to the old trick of whipping butter with oil. Not only does it spread much easier, but goes much further. If you like you can use water instead of oil. I use 500gm butter from Aldi and just under half a cup of canola oil and beat them together until smooth. This can be spread straight from the fridge and still tastes like butter.
Contributed by Anne Gray
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Claire Sierakowski. Claire has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
With the cost of meat, especially roasts, sky-rocketing, getting as many serves as possible from each roast is a grocery budget essential
.
Recycled Roast
Instead of plating up extra servings from a roast, I cook all roasts at least 1 day before serving. If meat or chicken is on a good special I cook it as soon as I get home or when convenient. I find the meat sets perfectly and cuts neatly and MUCH more economically than when hot. I then wrap carved meat in foil in meal serves (e.g. for 4 people) and freeze it. When Sunday comes around I simply select which roast we will have and cook freshly roasted vegetables, then heat the meal (still wrapped in foil) for about 20 minutes in the oven with the veg, and make gravy. This stress free roast is great for dinner parties and family feasts, particularly Christmas, when you want to spend time with guests. I have catered for up to 100 people using this method of roast meat and you would think the roast was just cooked. Note with roast pork I cut the crackling off and heat it ON TOP of the foil so it remains crunchy.
Congratulations Claire, 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.
4. 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
5. On The Menu
Chicken Alfredo Roll-Ups
Ingredients:
12 uncooked lasagne sheets
3 cups cooked chicken, shredded
450ml jar alfredo pasta sauce (or MOO it)
Salt and pepper
1-1/2 cups grated cheese (mozzarella is good if you have it)
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Boil the lasagne noodles and rinse with cool water if necessary. Lay on a clean tea towel and pat dry, again if needed. If you are using fresh lasagne sheets, you don't need to boil or dry them. Add two tablespoons of sauce onto each noodle and spread evenly over each noodle. Add two tablespoons of shredded chicken onto the sauce on each noodle and spread out. Top with one tablespoon of shredded cheese. Add salt and pepper, as desired. Rollup each lasagne noodle and place into a well-oiled baking dish. Top with alfredo sauce, sprinkle with remaining grated cheese. Finish with grated parmesan. Bake in the preheated oven for about 15 to 20 minutes, or until cheese has melted on top and is golden brown. Prepare fresh veggies or small side salad.
Variation: If I'm in a hurry and don’t have time to make lasagne sheets, I use Mountain Bread. It's quick and easy and slightly healthier than pasta too. Just cut each piece of Mountain Bread in half, and follow the directions for delicious Chicken Alfredo Roll-Ups.
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Baked Chicken Enchiladas
Tuesday: Fettucine Alfredo, salad
Wednesday: Beef casserole, mash
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Haystacks
Saturday: Muffin Surprise
In the fruit bowl: mandarins
In the cake tin: ANZAC slice, Cranberry Hootycreek Slice, boiled fruit cake
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
6. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Deli Counter v Deli Cabinet
Deli foods are delicious, there is no denying that. And most of us buy some form of deli items in our shopping on a regular basis.
But they can be very expensive and add a considerable amount of money to your weekly or monthly grocery shop. In fact just a few regular deli items can easily add $10, $15, $20 or more to your food bill depending on just where in the supermarket you buy them.
I put the theory to the test a while back, at the Coles supermarket at Tooronga Village for A Current Affair (and you can see the whole story here). I did two identical lots of shopping, one just from the deli counter and one from the deli/chiller cabinets.
The results? The deli counter won hands down, coming in at $92 for 17 items, while the same 17 items from the deli and chiller cabinets came in at $120.36, a huge difference of $28.36!
That's a lot of money. What difference would it make to you to free up $28 a week in your grocery budget - bearing in mind that it's more than a third of your weekly grocery budget if you're following the $300 a Month Food Challenge?
For example the individual packs of ham or salami or chicken loaf. They are convenient, being pre-packaged and pre-portioned. But when you compare the per kilo cost of that convenient package of ham to the deli counter price it can be anything from 50% to 120% more! Same meat, same store, different packaging.
The same goes for cheeses. A good example is the Jarlsberg from the Coles deli counter for $22 a kilo, sliced. A wedge of Jarlsberg from the dairy cabinet costs $30.20 a kilo - $8.20 a kilo more!
Camembert from the deli costs $32 a kilo, from the dairy cabinet $48 (or more, depending on the brand - some of them were up around $70 a kilo).
Ricotta from the deli is roughly the same price, but you'll find a big difference in price between deli counter Feta and dairy cabinet Feta - $4 a kilo or more, again depending on the brand and type you buy.
I'm sure you are all aware that supermarket meat is expensive, but the difference in price for chicken between the meat cabinet and the deli counter is again huge. Thigh and breast fillets from the meat cabinet were $14/kilo yesterday when I checked, but only $10 a kilo at the deli counter.
Chicken schnitzels are cheaper from the deli counter at $2 each, as is chicken kiev.
But not all things are cheaper at the deli counter.
Shortcut bacon was $17 a kilo at the deli counter and just $15 a kilo, pre-packaged in the chiller section. And a 500g knob of strasburg was just $5.95 or $11.90 a kilo, while the same brand of stras from the deli counter was $14 a kilo.
On the two lots of deli items I bought, one cost $120.36, the other just $92, a difference of $28.36.
The lesson here is that convenience costs, and in a big way.
When you buy from the deli counter you do need to take a number and wait in line. But you can request the exact quantity you want, have it sliced or shaved fresh to your desired thickness and ask advice from the deli staff, and for the most part pay a whole lot less.
I explain it like this: think about how much your time is worth.
By standing at the deli counter for 5 minutes I saved $28. If I were to earn $28 for five minutes of my time, I'd be earning $330 an hour (and planning a very early retirement)!
Now do you think it's worth taking a ticket and waiting at the deli? I know I do!
Of course you don't need to buy anything from the deli. You can roast and slice your own beef; bake your own ham, slice your own chicken, pastrami and silverside; smoke your own chickens, dry your own tomatoes; roast your own capsicums; make your own ricotta and feta cheese; pickle your own olives. They are all easy to do and will cost you even less than buying them from the deli and I'll be talking about this on You Tube next week.
So is it true? Do you prefer to pay for the convenience of pre-packaged deli items regardless of the cost? Or do you prefer to take a few minutes and buy from the deli counter to save around 25%?
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
The Smart Stockpile
We Call it Zen Spending
Portion Control and Free Meals
Most Popular Blog Posts This Week
Hypothetical: A Transport Strike Stops Deliveries
Re-Building the Stockpile - Starting Early
Getting Ready for Grocery Shopping
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
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.
Thursday: Cheapskates in the Kitchen - want to know how to cook delicious, healthy and cheap meals? Watch Cath and Hannah as they create cheapskates style cuisine and share their favourite recipes.
Latest Shows
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - Stretching Hot Chocolate for Winter Warmers; Delicious Pickled Veggies; Making Butter Less Expensive
3. This Week's Winning Tip - Re/cycled Roast
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Chicken Alfredo Roll-Ups
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Deli Counter v Deli Cabinet
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show - Join Cath & Hannah on You Tube every Tuesday and Thursdaly
9. This Week's Question - Food Allergies and the $300 a Month Food Challenge
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,
How are you all getting on living the Cheapskates way? Sometimes it's a breeze, and sometimes it's a challenge. Right now for us, it's a challenge. Ho hum!
We have quite a few things going on at the moment; only a couple have been planned (my trip to Tassie is one of them). The rest have come out of the blue and Every. Single. One. is a big expense. So far this month we've have had a major household expense (~$1,500 - $1,800) and a major car repair ($1,800), discovered we need to replace a roof rack (~$1,000) and a couple of medical bills that have been slightly bigger than anticipated ($834). To say our budget has taken a hit is an understatement.
But all the bills have been paid in full and on time, including these "extras", thanks to a working budget and a good emergency fund to back it up. Without our budget that includes categories for household repairs and replacements, car maintenance and medical expenses and without the savings in our emergency fund, we would have been resorting to either "rob Peter to pay Paul" or using credit and spending a long time playing catch-up and chasing our tails.
Each month when we review our budget, I'm tempted to ignore the categories that don't see a lot of traffic - namely household maintenance, car maintenance and medical. It is so tempting, when we rarely need to dip into those categories, to skip adding to them and just spend the money on other things. Ditto adding to our emergency fund.
Right now, today, 31st July 2019 (yes, I'm writing this a day early) I am so grateful that we haven't ever skipped adding to these budget categories. Because we've faithfully added to them, even if we've thought they were big enough, we have been able to pay the bills as they came in, without stressing or needing to rejig other categories or even skip paying other bills.
Living the Cheapskates way isn't easy at times. It means we need to be diligent in our spending and saving. But it also means that when life goes a little pear-shaped, we can and will survive and come out in front - still debt free, cashed up and laughing.
If you think it's not worth building your budget categories, or increasing your emergency fund, remember the last few weeks we've had, and that we have been able to pay for them without hesitating or stressing.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
2. From The Tip Store
Stretching Hot Chocolate for Winter Warmers
Our family in Canberra love hot chocolate in winter. To buy it already made up it can be expensive and it’s quite sweet. Now I buy one container of hot chocolate. Tip it into bowl and whisk in 1/2 a packet of Home Brand cocoa. Everyone enjoys the slightly richer taste and it’s getting to the stage where I can see us using just plain cocoa. Even better with homemade marshmallows
Contributed by Karen Johnson
Delicious Pickled Veggies
I recently bought some pickles to add to hamburgers. When they were finished I was left with a lot of yummy pickling liquid. It seemed such a waste to throw it out so I added some chopped up carrots and zucchinis that needed to be used up. I left them in the fridge for a couple of days then tried them - delicious! I used raw vegetables because I like the crunch but think using parboiled veggies would also work well if you prefer them softer.
Contributed by Fiona Masters
Note: Just make sure your brine is clean - no floaties from spoons or forks - before you add extra veg. And if the brine goes cloudy or develops a skin, don't use it. Otherwise, I've done the same thing and Fiona is right, they are delicious, especially on a cheese board. Cath
Making Butter Less Expensive
Butter is so expensive nowadays, I have gone back to the old trick of whipping butter with oil. Not only does it spread much easier, but goes much further. If you like you can use water instead of oil. I use 500gm butter from Aldi and just under half a cup of canola oil and beat them together until smooth. This can be spread straight from the fridge and still tastes like butter.
Contributed by Anne Gray
Add a Tip
3. This Week's Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Claire Sierakowski. Claire has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
With the cost of meat, especially roasts, sky-rocketing, getting as many serves as possible from each roast is a grocery budget essential
.
Recycled Roast
Instead of plating up extra servings from a roast, I cook all roasts at least 1 day before serving. If meat or chicken is on a good special I cook it as soon as I get home or when convenient. I find the meat sets perfectly and cuts neatly and MUCH more economically than when hot. I then wrap carved meat in foil in meal serves (e.g. for 4 people) and freeze it. When Sunday comes around I simply select which roast we will have and cook freshly roasted vegetables, then heat the meal (still wrapped in foil) for about 20 minutes in the oven with the veg, and make gravy. This stress free roast is great for dinner parties and family feasts, particularly Christmas, when you want to spend time with guests. I have catered for up to 100 people using this method of roast meat and you would think the roast was just cooked. Note with roast pork I cut the crackling off and heat it ON TOP of the foil so it remains crunchy.
Congratulations Claire, 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.
4. 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
5. On The Menu
Chicken Alfredo Roll-Ups
Ingredients:
12 uncooked lasagne sheets
3 cups cooked chicken, shredded
450ml jar alfredo pasta sauce (or MOO it)
Salt and pepper
1-1/2 cups grated cheese (mozzarella is good if you have it)
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Boil the lasagne noodles and rinse with cool water if necessary. Lay on a clean tea towel and pat dry, again if needed. If you are using fresh lasagne sheets, you don't need to boil or dry them. Add two tablespoons of sauce onto each noodle and spread evenly over each noodle. Add two tablespoons of shredded chicken onto the sauce on each noodle and spread out. Top with one tablespoon of shredded cheese. Add salt and pepper, as desired. Rollup each lasagne noodle and place into a well-oiled baking dish. Top with alfredo sauce, sprinkle with remaining grated cheese. Finish with grated parmesan. Bake in the preheated oven for about 15 to 20 minutes, or until cheese has melted on top and is golden brown. Prepare fresh veggies or small side salad.
Variation: If I'm in a hurry and don’t have time to make lasagne sheets, I use Mountain Bread. It's quick and easy and slightly healthier than pasta too. Just cut each piece of Mountain Bread in half, and follow the directions for delicious Chicken Alfredo Roll-Ups.
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Baked Chicken Enchiladas
Tuesday: Fettucine Alfredo, salad
Wednesday: Beef casserole, mash
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Haystacks
Saturday: Muffin Surprise
In the fruit bowl: mandarins
In the cake tin: ANZAC slice, Cranberry Hootycreek Slice, boiled fruit cake
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
6. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Deli Counter v Deli Cabinet
Deli foods are delicious, there is no denying that. And most of us buy some form of deli items in our shopping on a regular basis.
But they can be very expensive and add a considerable amount of money to your weekly or monthly grocery shop. In fact just a few regular deli items can easily add $10, $15, $20 or more to your food bill depending on just where in the supermarket you buy them.
I put the theory to the test a while back, at the Coles supermarket at Tooronga Village for A Current Affair (and you can see the whole story here). I did two identical lots of shopping, one just from the deli counter and one from the deli/chiller cabinets.
The results? The deli counter won hands down, coming in at $92 for 17 items, while the same 17 items from the deli and chiller cabinets came in at $120.36, a huge difference of $28.36!
That's a lot of money. What difference would it make to you to free up $28 a week in your grocery budget - bearing in mind that it's more than a third of your weekly grocery budget if you're following the $300 a Month Food Challenge?
For example the individual packs of ham or salami or chicken loaf. They are convenient, being pre-packaged and pre-portioned. But when you compare the per kilo cost of that convenient package of ham to the deli counter price it can be anything from 50% to 120% more! Same meat, same store, different packaging.
The same goes for cheeses. A good example is the Jarlsberg from the Coles deli counter for $22 a kilo, sliced. A wedge of Jarlsberg from the dairy cabinet costs $30.20 a kilo - $8.20 a kilo more!
Camembert from the deli costs $32 a kilo, from the dairy cabinet $48 (or more, depending on the brand - some of them were up around $70 a kilo).
Ricotta from the deli is roughly the same price, but you'll find a big difference in price between deli counter Feta and dairy cabinet Feta - $4 a kilo or more, again depending on the brand and type you buy.
I'm sure you are all aware that supermarket meat is expensive, but the difference in price for chicken between the meat cabinet and the deli counter is again huge. Thigh and breast fillets from the meat cabinet were $14/kilo yesterday when I checked, but only $10 a kilo at the deli counter.
Chicken schnitzels are cheaper from the deli counter at $2 each, as is chicken kiev.
But not all things are cheaper at the deli counter.
Shortcut bacon was $17 a kilo at the deli counter and just $15 a kilo, pre-packaged in the chiller section. And a 500g knob of strasburg was just $5.95 or $11.90 a kilo, while the same brand of stras from the deli counter was $14 a kilo.
On the two lots of deli items I bought, one cost $120.36, the other just $92, a difference of $28.36.
The lesson here is that convenience costs, and in a big way.
When you buy from the deli counter you do need to take a number and wait in line. But you can request the exact quantity you want, have it sliced or shaved fresh to your desired thickness and ask advice from the deli staff, and for the most part pay a whole lot less.
I explain it like this: think about how much your time is worth.
By standing at the deli counter for 5 minutes I saved $28. If I were to earn $28 for five minutes of my time, I'd be earning $330 an hour (and planning a very early retirement)!
Now do you think it's worth taking a ticket and waiting at the deli? I know I do!
Of course you don't need to buy anything from the deli. You can roast and slice your own beef; bake your own ham, slice your own chicken, pastrami and silverside; smoke your own chickens, dry your own tomatoes; roast your own capsicums; make your own ricotta and feta cheese; pickle your own olives. They are all easy to do and will cost you even less than buying them from the deli and I'll be talking about this on You Tube next week.
So is it true? Do you prefer to pay for the convenience of pre-packaged deli items regardless of the cost? Or do you prefer to take a few minutes and buy from the deli counter to save around 25%?
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
The Smart Stockpile
We Call it Zen Spending
Portion Control and Free Meals
Most Popular Blog Posts This Week
Hypothetical: A Transport Strike Stops Deliveries
Re-Building the Stockpile - Starting Early
Getting Ready for Grocery Shopping
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join Cath and Hannah live Tuesdays and Thursdays on You Tube at 7.30pm AET
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.
Thursday: Cheapskates in the Kitchen - want to know how to cook delicious, healthy and cheap meals? Watch Cath and Hannah as they create cheapskates style cuisine and share their favourite recipes.
Latest Shows
Coming Up:
Thursday 1st August: Penny Pinching Pizza
Tuesday 6th August: Halve the Cost of Deli Meats and Cheeses
9. This Week's Question
Jordan writes
"I have food allergies, specifically gluten and dairy free and was wondering how to participate in the $300 a month grocery challenge when grocery item substitutes are quite expensive or can’t be substituted at all?"
If you have a suggestion or idea for Jordan, let us know. We'll enter your answer into our Tip of the Week competition, with a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club as the prize too.
Send Your Answer
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
For just $36.50 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!
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Thursday 1st August: Penny Pinching Pizza
Tuesday 6th August: Halve the Cost of Deli Meats and Cheeses
9. This Week's Question
Jordan writes
"I have food allergies, specifically gluten and dairy free and was wondering how to participate in the $300 a month grocery challenge when grocery item substitutes are quite expensive or can’t be substituted at all?"
If you have a suggestion or idea for Jordan, let us know. We'll enter your answer into our Tip of the Week competition, with a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club as the prize too.
Send Your Answer
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
For just $36.50 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.
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