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Eating well on a budget

Knowing how to shop, how to store food and how to cook are valuable tools for eating well on a budget. There are many tips and resources available, but simple things like planning meals, shopping to a list, eating seasonally, buying nutritious staples in bulk, reducing meat and dairy consumption and minimising spending on occasional foods are all simple steps to get you started.

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Hidden Harvest

Hidden Harvest combats climate chance by providing the tools and forks to tackle food waste and serve up a sustainable future.

Wollongong & Surrounds

Cook Chill Chat

Healthy eating and social inclusion workshops that bring people together to share a meal, learn healthy eating tips and tricks and budget-friendly cooking skills.

Wollongong & Surrounds

Lighthouse Community Kitchen

Community dinner and dessert every Tuesday & Thursday at 5:30pm Lighthouse Community Kitchen (LCK) is a pop-up restaurant.

Wollongong & Surrounds

FFI resource, Local Group, Website

Budget Friendly Meals Australia

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FFI resource, Website

Quick and Healthy Recipes

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Healthy Eating on a Budget

Some tips I use when I go to the grocery store and markets to save myself a little $$$ off the weekly food bill!

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Cooking on a Budget

Visit your local supermarket these days and expressions of anxiety, fear and panic are everywhere apparent. But for some, anxiety about the weekly shop is nothing new. We talk to Leanne Brown, author of Good and Cheap, a book to help those on a budget feed themselves for less than 4 dollars a day.

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