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Food on a Budget.

Food on a Budget

3M subscribers82 posts / mo in Sep 202670 authors / mosince 2011

r/budgetfood has 3M members (+3.0% over the last 12 months). It gets about 82 posts a month from 70 people. Top topics: Budget Healthy Meals, Frugal Grocery Shopping and College Student Meals.

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Size and growth

How r/budgetfood has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+3.0%in 12 months · +0.5% in 3 months · +0.1% in 1 month
Oct 20263M
Growing3M subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−49%vs Sep 2025 · −7.2% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202682
QuieterPeaked at 392 in Sep 2023
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/budgetfood

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Budget Healthy Meals3.9%
  2. Frugal Grocery Shopping2.3%
  3. College Student Meals1.5%
  4. Broke Meal Prep1.2%
  5. Grocery Hauls0.8%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Budget Bytes
  2. Walmart
  3. TikTok
  4. Simple Page
  5. RecipeTin Eats

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research