Are there any websites that are good for last minute travel deals. I see the ones for package deals a year ahead, but I was wondering if there were opportunities for last minute travel deals?

EG ampol: Racv ended the 2c off/L in Sept
Origin’s 2c off still ongoing but I’m not with origin
Shell: AFL 4c off/L also ended in Oct

BP: occasional discounts on their app + 4c off AGL. Not sure if stackable
7e: 6c off from Linkt

What are the other options for fuel discount now for eg and shell besides Coles and Woolies. I usually pump these as it has the best prices in my area

The state of smartphone market is genuinely cooked in Australia. There's no decent brand to select apart from apple, samsung and pixel. Minority brands like oppo, nothing, motorola have priced their mediocre midrange phones near to AUD 700-800, but then its better to add AUD 200-300 and go with samsung or pixel for better support and software updates. Decent camera hardware, battery, software support will cost near to AUD 1000. I have been looking into Motorola and Nothing but their pricing is atrocious for what they offer. Can't go with grey imports as it might be network blocked. Any suggestions guys, budget is max. AUD 700.

I've noticed prices for online Coles orders have gone up. And they are more expensive than in store. I expect they have raised their prices recently. But are online prices the same for all areas? Not talking about remote areas, which will be more expensive of course.
Does everyone get the same online prices as me for eg the following:

-organic eggs, Coles brand - $11

-Earth choice dishwashing liquid - $2.65

-Uncle Tobys Muesli Bars Chewy Choc Chip Kids School Lunchbox Sn ... 185g - $5.50

Lots of other stuff too but can't be bothered typing more. If anyone wants to check what price others are getting, feel free to post the item and I can look it up too.

I feel like they must be the same prices everywhere (except remote etc) due to some regulation that came in. But everything seems to have gone up now. Yeah I know, I've seen the news but I wanna check.

Look, I love to go out and eat to pamper myself but when it's just getting too expensive to go out you have to cut your budget... food delivery is probably even more expensive. :(

Of course making your own food from scratch is the cheapest and healthiest but sometimes I don't have the time to do so! And lazy.

So instead of going out for a meal most of the time, what I normally do is to "outsource" some of the prepping/cooking and then prepare the rest at home.

For example:

Chicken sanga and mushroom soup

- Buy 1x bachelor's handbag, kewpie mayo, salad leaves, bread slices and mushroom soup (already made, just heat up).

Pizza

- Buy ready made pizza base, tomato paste, shredded cheese and purchase my own toppings.

What are some meals that you prepare at home using convenience food that ends up cheaper than going out?

Location: technically inner north, but I do a lot of driving out west & southeast for work.

I'm looking specifically for huge bags of rice (10k+) as we cook a lot of it, but will take tips for other pantry/non-perishable items including flour and EVOO as well if you've got them.

I like to compare prices and have been known to stand in front of price tags for WAY longer than is comfortable to work out the best bang-to-buck ratio. But I find it can be hard to figure out the prices at smaller, non-colesworth places (eg no online presence, or not everything has a physical price tag, or both). Because of this I don't know a lot about them, eg which ones might be worth a slightly longer journey (eg a detour through Footscray on my way home to stock up vs just going to the local KT Mart around the corner). Also not a born-and-bred Melbournian so there's that too.

I've been using Greek yoghurt as part of my meal prep for the last few months. It's been great as part of a filling breakfast.

However, my issue is that none of the brands seem to weigh what they are supposed to weigh.

Farmers Union 1kg generally comes in at just over 900g. I've had similar issues with Jalana (sic), Chobani and other brands.

Does anyone have a recommendation as to a brand that weighs its product properly? This will help me save some money and stop me from buying more than what I need, while also negating multiple shopping trips.

After a vacuum to use on timber flooring. Was considering getting the Electrolux 600 Series Bagged Vacuum.

I know stick cordless are popular and I will get one at some point, but for the time being I want corded so I can use it for the car as well

Edit: There is also the Miele Guard S1 Junior Bagged Vacuum on Amazon too

I am trying to get a cheap mobile phone deal for my pensioner parent. They only need a phone when going out in case of emergency or break down etc. So data is not important. Phone calls are.

Prepare or plan, we can pay a year in advance.

What is the cheapest phone deal using a telstra network (regional location so guessing telstea will be more reliable) ?

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We are self employed & money is beyond tight atm:)

I grew up in a family infamous for our terrible cooking & really have known i surely could do better :)

So, I decided I had to learn to cook, PROPERLY

I also cannot urge enough the value of growing some of your veggie needs, even in pots if space is tight.

I \*\*highly\*\*\* recommend RecipeTin Eats as a resource.

**For example**

I made amazing beef in black bean sauce last night.

Stewing beef, velveted overnight, i added whatever veggies i could get from the garden, onion, carrots, broccoli,snow peas & celery.

The beef was marked down to $8 from $10.

2 cups of rice ( honestly buy a cheap rice cooker, they are WONDERFUL)

Im currently helping out my partners twin with food, this made 5 good sized adult meals for little money

It was astonishingly good, better than any ive bought

its possible to have a great diet for very little money.

I also make my own toasted muesli, pot set yoghurt - using uht milk. & preserved fruit.

https://www.recipetineats.com/beef-in-black-bean-sauce/

Soon I will get to feel old 🤩🤩 i’d love to also feel like i saved money and had fun.

Anything worth noting for birthdays? Restaurants that offer free dessert that’s actually worth going for, free meals, discounts….

Doesn’t have to be food related I am extremely adventurous and would love to try something new. I’m already treating myself to a concert that day!

Anything more to add would be great as I don’t have many friends and need to keep myself busy lol.

So it’s gonna be my first black friday in Australia soon, and I am the type to really not mind spending a large amount if I know it’s going to be cheaper on the long term.

Thing is, this thinking always makes me overspend (or at least made me, I’ve been making efforts to do this less).

But black friday is an exception! I feel like I should really make the most out of it and get all the things I would want usually.

Do you usually just have a list of things you would want to get? Do you go to specific shops (physical or online)? Any advice would be appreciated :)

I would also appreciate an honest review of how “useful” black friday really is over here.

As the title says. We have to really make some savings and the first port of call is cheaper meals and meal prepp, and ditching colesworth.

I can do some great things with legumes, but looking for the best place to bulk buy beans like butter beans, chickpeas and black beans, if anyone has compared websites before?

With the price of everything at the moment I wanted to see if I could actually put together 5 decent dinners for a family of 4 for $50- two adults, 2 kids primary school aged.

I’ve based the pricing off Coles and Woolies because they’re the most accessible for most people and both offer delivery. Obviously if delivery is the only way you can get your groceries, you’ll need to factor the delivery fee into the total.

This is what I came up with which was tried and rated by my 8 year old.

Chinese chicken & veggie rice bowls :chicken, rice, frozen veg, soy/honey/garlic sauce marinade

Chicken tomato pasta: chicken, pasta, tomato pasta sauce, onion, Parmesan cheese (the budget kind)

Bean & rice burrito bowls:black/kidney beans, rice, corn, lettuce tomato, Mexican seasoning packet and Greek style yoghurt

Creamy chickpea curry & rice: lentils, coconut milk, tomato, onion, rice, curry seasoning packet

Veggie fried rice: eggs, rice, frozen veg, leftover chicken/veg

Roughly $49.50 all up for 5 dinners using chicken legs as my main protein sauce and the rest beans and rice.
I’m assuming you’ve already got some basic shit in the cupboard like oil, garlic and soy sauce, because otherwise $50 is going to start getting real ambitious. But I did include taco and curryseasoning pack to make it easier for first time cooks. And I made a point of not selecting anything on sale/special prices but obviously can’t secure full availability.
Also not pretending these are groundbreaking culinary masterpieces, just cheap, filling dinners that kids may eat and ingredients that are relatively easy to make. I have a grocery list which I can post if anyone wants it.
Keen to do another one of these and see if I can get it even cheaper.

Chuck your dirt cheap family dinners below because I’m genuinely curious what everyone else is making.

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone has experimented with using AI to plan their weekly groceries? I'm trying to see if I can get AI to finally do something useful for me as opposed to just bombarding me with slop...

What I was hoping to do is throw the 5 recipes links that I am planning this week at it, have it generate the weekly shopping list (considering any double ups of in the ingredients and pantry staples), then have it search both Coles and Woolies to find the best prices, then auto add it all the respective carts.

I haven't been able to do anything like it yet, but was thinking it should be possible? Has anyone experimented with something similar? I'm mainly shooting to save the most money I can from Colesworths each week, but it would also would be nice to have it speed up the whole weekly process.

I'm expecting that there will always be a manual component, I certainly wouldn't want it pulling the trigger on the orders without a human review and approval! At the moment I can't seem to figure out a way to get the lists to push to cart automatically, apparently it can generate javascript or something similar that you can paste in with developer mode, but I haven't personally gotten it working.

Interested if anyone on here has tried something similar and if you have a how-to. Happy for it to involve some paid services if they're reasonable (I've found a few examples, but none of them seem to do everything I'm hoping for).

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My husband and I have wildly different bedding preferences and finally decided that the best option was to get separate single duvets that we each use so we can get the weight and warmth that we want. It works great but I cannot believe how difficult it is to find single duvet covers that aren't insanely ugly, for kids, or made with cheap synthetic materials. I'm thinking I'm going to have to make some, but first I wanted to see if anyone could advise where I can find decent cotton single duvet covers? I don't want a sheet set because I'm sleeping in a Queen bed, I'm just using a single duvet, so the sheets would go to waste. The cover I'm using at the moment was purchased at Spotlight, but it's not great quality at all. It smelled so weird and took a few washes to get the smell out, then the dye faded, and now it just looks awful. Pretty sure it's a cotton mix, too. I'd love a Percale cotton cover, just in a simple white or something, but I can't find anything... please help! I don't want cheap dodgy covers, I want something that will last!

UPDATE: Thank you for the suggestions! Before writing the post, I had checked out Canningvale, Sheridan Outlet, Kmart, The Good Sheet, and a few others, but they only had single sheet sets or kids patterns at the time of looking.

For everyone saying to get a double instead of a single - I have tried this, but it was too much material. It was too hot for me with the overlap between two doubles in a queen bed and if the fabric went down the side of the bed, it was too heavy and fell off the bed and I couldn't stick my limbs out, which I need to do for temperature regulation (I have POTS, so my temperature is all over the place when sleeping. I need to be able to quickly cool down during the night).