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r/povertykitchen↗

Poverty Kitchen is a sub intended to help Redditors facing difficult financial times by offering shopping tips, recipes and cooking skills and kitchen management tips.

106k subscribers92 posts / mo in Sep 202671 authors / mosince 2021

r/povertykitchen has 106k members (+62% over the last 12 months). It gets about 92 posts a month from 71 people. Top topics: Budget Healthy Meals, Frugal Grocery Shopping and Broke Meal Prep.

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Size and growth

How r/povertykitchen has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+62%in 12 months · +3.5% in 3 months · +0.8% in 1 month
Oct 2026106k
Growing106k subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (Aug 2021)
Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−6.1%vs Sep 2025 · −14% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202692
QuieterPeaked at 210 in Nov 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/povertykitchen

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Budget Healthy Meals3.7%
  2. Frugal Grocery Shopping2.1%
  3. Broke Meal Prep1.3%
  4. Food Banks and Donations1.3%
  5. Food Assistance Requests1.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Budget Bytes
  2. Walmart
  3. Falling Fruit
  4. Simple Page
  5. Kitchn

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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