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Find the money hiding in your grocery bill.
In 90 minutes we're going to rein in your grocery scope creep and edit your bill in real time. Walk out knowing the three or four levers you can pull to save cash, whenever you want to.
Every ticket includes a personal receipt inspection
My eyes on your receipt. Your top 3 money leaks, sent back to you within 24 hours.
Let's find your money Live workshop Monday 19 October (11.30am AEST)20 spots only
THE TOP-UP SHOP
PINEAPPLE x2$15.00
BLUEBERRIES$5.00
SOURDOUGH$30.00
BABY SPINACH$5.00
FINE CUT COLESLAW$4.00
THE GOOD BUTTER$8.00
MILK 2L$7.50
MOROCCAN MARINATED CHICKEN$19.50
TOTAL$94.00
THE TOP-UP SHOP
PINEAPPLE x2$15.00 $5.00
swap: peaches, 1kg
BLUEBERRIES$5.00 $5.00
you could buy over 1kg oranges for that
SOURDOUGH$30.00
buy one, make one?
BABY SPINACH$5.00 $0.00
always binned. skip
FINE CUT COLESLAW$4.00 $3.00
1/4 cabbage + a knife
THE GOOD BUTTER$8.00
keep. obviously
MILK 2L$7.50
leave it
MOROCCAN MARINATED CHICKEN$19.50 $12.50
plain thighs + my spices
NEW TOTAL$94.00 $71.00
$23 back this shop
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Built for you
For the mum who wonders if her grocery bill is insane or normal.
And for the food lover who wants her grocery scope creep in check, but doesn't vibe with the budget tips.
Just your money, spent on food you love.
Keep the fancy cheese. Let's find the rest.
Sound familiar?
- You've switched to home brand
- You've cut back on meat
- You've thinned dinner out with so many lentils you're turning into one
And your grocery bill is still enormous.
Everyone knows groceries are expensive. But most of us keep pulling the same lever, buying cheaper, and figure we've tried everything.
grocery scope creep
/ grow·suh·ree skohp kreep / noun
When your well-intentioned grocery budget gets left behind, like the reusable bags in the boot of the car.
I've got it too. I'm hunting for $50 a week in my own house right now.
The tip of the iceberg
Buying cheap is one lever.
It might not be your biggest one. Money leaks out in five places, and most of them are under the water.
The tip
- Switch to home brand
- Buy less meat
- Shop at the cheapest supermarket
- Chase the yellow tickets
- Add more lentils
Below the water
- 1. Before you shop
- 2. While you shop
- 3. What you choose to buy
- 4. Once it gets home
- 5. Whether it actually gets eaten
Now look in the bin
Aussie homes throw out 1 in 5 bags of groceries. That's ~$2,500 wasted every year.
So it doesn't matter how cheaply you buy it if it never gets eaten.
That's money you could keep without changing your shopping habits, or moving to Aldi.
Sources: National Food Waste Strategy Feasibility Study; End Food Waste Australia, citing Fight Food Waste CRC research (2021).
The math
It pays for itself.
The workshop is $47. Find $10 a week and it's paid off in five weeks. Everything after that is yours.
5
weeks to pay for itself
$520
back in a year
Will this mean more work?
That's your call. For every leak on your receipt, I'll show you the options, what each one saves and what it asks of you. Then you choose.
Buy less
Same thing, smaller amount. No extra time.
Swap it
A different product or cut that does the same job.
Go seasonal
What's abundant and cheap this week.
Make it
More time, bigger saving. Only if it suits you.
Skip it
The thing that keeps ending up in the bin.
From my house
My husband once spent $40 on muesli bars in a week. Three packs. That's about a sixth of my weekly grocery budget. The options: buy fewer, swap to a cheaper one, or make a tray the easy way.
Sourdough's the same. We can easily spend $40 a week on it, so some weeks I buy it and some weeks I make it.
What you walk out with
One page. Plan sorted.
Stick it on the fridge. Open it before your next shop and you'll know exactly what to do.
MY GROCERY GAME PLANExample
Keeping
The good coffee. Friday cheese and crackers. Proper butter.
Changing next shop
1. Fruit: what's in season, berries when they're cheap. (swap, no extra time)
2. Muesli bars: one pack, bake a tray Sunday. (make it, 20 min)
3. Yoghurt pouches nobody finishes. (skip it)
2. Muesli bars: one pack, bake a tray Sunday. (make it, 20 min)
3. Yoghurt pouches nobody finishes. (skip it)
Could save
About $15 a week. Roughly $780 a year.
At home
Older food to the front. Freeze half the loaf on shop day.
Before
Your personal receipt inspection
Private, always. Your top 3 money leaks back to you within 24 hours.
During
The live 90 minute workshop
Monday 19 October, 11.30am AEST. Workbook pages filled in as we go, so no homework.
Leave with
Your one page Grocery Game Plan
Keeping, changing, saving, and what you'll do at home.
Extras
Replay, idea bank and DM access
Six months of replay access for every ticket holder. My full list of options for later. Two weeks of Instagram DMs while you put your plan into action.
From my kitchen
This is how I shop.
Market hauls, cheaper cuts cooked well, leftovers that turn into tomorrow's lunch.
Working with me
What it's actually like.
"It's really like having you in my kitchen."
Ditch the Recipes student"I now cook more by going to the stores and seeing what is there and fresh and a good price."
Ditch the Recipes student"Experimenting with the fresh produce shops and finding great buys and really fresh ingredients too."
Ditch the Recipes student
Why trust me
I've done this at scale.
For 7 years I cooked commercially, feeding hundreds of people a week. Sticking to a food budget was make or break.
In catering, you cost a dish before you cook it. You know what a kilo of chicken thighs gives you once it's trimmed, and what happens to your margin when a bag of rocket turns to slime. Nothing gets bought for one dish only. It taught me that knowledge is power. Paying attention while you shop lets you flow, save your cash and put it towards the ingredients that matter. For me, that's sheep's cheese haloumi. Splurge where you want, rein in where it doesn't matter. And a little DIY goes a long way.
Now I'm a mum of two, using the same thinking at home. Mostly I shop at the markets, buy what's good and abundant, then work out dinner.
Lou 🍋
Still deciding?
Here's the honest answer.
Will I find $50?
Maybe. Maybe more, maybe less. Every household's different, so I won't promise a number. I'll promise I'll look hard. And if we can't find a worthwhile shift, I keep working with you until we do.
Will you make me shop at Aldi?
Nope. Shop wherever you like. Where you shop is one lever, and we'll look at whether it's worth pulling for you.
I don't have time to cook more.
Then pick the options that don't need it. I'll show you exactly which ones those are.
I shop at markets. I don't get receipts.
Same. Online order history, a bank statement or a photo of the haul with what you paid all work.
Will anyone else see my receipts?
Never. They stay between you and me.
Can't make it live?
Every ticket holder gets the replay, with six months to watch it. Your receipt inspection still happens either way.
Which receipts should I bring?
The real ones. Big shop, top up shop, the "I only went in for milk" shop. Don't tidy them up first.
20 spots · $47
Let's find your money.
If we can't find a worthwhile shift, I keep looking until we do.
Join The Grocery Edit Live Monday 19 October (11.30am AEST)
P.S. We start now. Join and you'll get an instant email with how to send me your grocery stuff. I'll reply within 24 hours with your top 3 money leaks, so you can make your first change before the workshop even runs. Bring the evidence.