Aldi
Broad Oak whole RSPCA chicken
$3.99/kg
The trip this week. Dinner, then soup and sandwiches from the leftovers.
Australia · Week of 23–29 September 2026
Stretch the shop.Keep the dinners good.
Weekly catalogues, a $60 dinner plan for four, and the Centrelink payments already sitting in myGov — the kitchen-table method, written for Australian prices.
Dinner plan
$60
Seven dinners, family of four, sales-led.
Community
Find the mums already doing this
Facebook is the daily chat. Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are the quick hits. State groups keep the local catalogues from flooding the nationwide thread.
FTB Part A, child 0–12
$7,110
Max incl. supplement, 2026–27
This week’s dinners
$60
Four people, seven nights
Specials
16
Across 23–29 September 2026
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This week
The prices worth leaving the house for
Aldi
Honey soy chicken drumsticks 1.5 kg
$8.99
About $6 a kilo. Tray-bake with potatoes. Ready, Set… Cook marinated pack.
Aldi
Freedom Farms chicken breast steaks 400 g
$7.49
RSPCA. Slice for stir-fry or schnitzel night.
Aldi
Iceberg lettuce
$1.99
Wraps and lunchboxes. Use it this week — it won’t wait.
Meal of the week
Roast chicken & iceberg
Aldi’s whole RSPCA chicken at $3.99/kg. Dinner tonight, soup on Sunday, sandwiches in between.
$11.70 · serves 4 · 1 hr 20 min
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How we work
Tried, not pretty for the sake of it
Same bones as the MOAB Australia community: shop the specials, cook from overlap, claim what’s yours from Centrelink. Woolies, Coles and Aldi. The maths is still the maths.
Read the guidesStart here
Groceries · 12 min
The MOAB meal-planning method
Shop the specials, cook from overlapping ingredients, and freeze with intent — not hope.
Shopping · 6 min
Woolies, Coles, Aldi — without three trips
Two stops, not five. Price-match where it works. Skip the 40-cent win that costs a tank of petrol.
Meal plans · 7 min
Feeding four dinners for about $70
What the number actually includes, what it doesn’t, and where mums quietly go over.
The tools, no login
Saved on this device. Built for the hour after bedtime, not a 40-page spreadsheet.
Budget workshop
Pay, FTB, rent, groceries. See the leftover before the fortnight spends it.
OpenBenefits desk
FTB estimator for 2026–27, CCS percentage, and the state rebates people forget.
OpenLoans
Mortgage, car, lease and loan maths, then a free chat with the community broker if the rate is the thing.
OpenFinancial planning
What financial planning actually is, and a free first chat with the community’s licensed advisers.
OpenThe method
Catalogue stacking, freezer banking, lunchboxes that don’t leak money.
OpenVisit our free community resource
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