r/EatCheapAndHealthy

About r/EatCheapAndHealthy

In its own words:

Eating healthy on a cheap budget

The community was created on Dec 27, 2012, which makes it 13 years old. Since Oct 19, 2026, it has gained 2,517 subscribers (+0.02%). It sits just behind r/NetflixBestOf (#75) and ahead of r/nextfuckinglevel (#77) in our ranking.

What sets r/EatCheapAndHealthy apart

Compared with other large communities, r/EatCheapAndHealthy leans heavily on text posts (100% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 17%). Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.9 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here.

Subscriber growth

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, r/EatCheapAndHealthy went up from 11,498,406 to 11,509,782 subscribers (+11.4K, +0.10%). That is about 284 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (8 so far), so it gets longer every week.

Top posts on r/EatCheapAndHealthy this week

This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Oct 30, 2026).

1. What do you keep at home to satisfy takeaway cravings?u/Twilight_Ivy_01 · Oct 27 · text post
2. Is it okay to eat pasta and rice everyday?u/North_Importance_472 · Oct 29 · text post
3. Tip: Costco Business Center locations have chicken drumsticks for $0.69 a pound, compared to their normal $1.79.u/Formal_Lychee2194 · Oct 29 · text post
4. Yogurt + chia seeds + pumpkin seedsu/blueberrypossums · Oct 26 · text post
5. How to cook for 2 peopleu/cherryisscared · Oct 25 · text post
6. Addition to bacon and eggsu/TalkHot2112 · Oct 26 · text post
7. Vegan broccoli cheese rice casseroleu/Grouchy_Audience_684 · Oct 24 · text post
8. How to find produce on sale?u/Mindless-Equal-1477 · Oct 23 · text post
9. Do you plan your meals around what is on sale, or do you pick meals first and then shop?u/Puzzleheaded_Ad4629 · Oct 27 · text post
10. Drinksu/Thunder9191133 · Oct 29 · text post

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/EatCheapAndHealthy, from 2018 to 2025, ranked by Reddit.

1. FROM A PROFESSIONAL CHEF TO YOU: The tricks that anyone should know when they buy food.u/aichliss · Nov 18, 2020 · text post
2. My 11yo niece wants to learn to cook so we made these together: Vietnamese Summer Rolls with Peanut Dipping Sauceu/NerdsWithKnives · Apr 28, 2021 · image
3. LPT: When you pick up your children from school, bring some healthy food with you like carrots or cucumber. The kids are usually starved and will eat anything.Oct 24, 2020 · text post
4. I think my roommate is starving, what can I "accidently" make in bulk?u/McCrotch · Dec 27, 2022 · 14,965 points · 1,694 comments · text post
5. Watermelon and Whole Fruit Popsicleu/PabstyLoudmouth · Jul 19, 2019 · 13,394 points · 217 comments · image
6. Personal milestone: I ate a whole package of mixed greens before it went bad.u/Dukedyduke · Jul 10, 2020 · text post
7. Crispy Chickpeas! My favorite study snack and a great, healthy substitute for chips if you're looking for a little crunchu/shelbyp817 · Oct 7, 2020 · gallery
8. I grew up poor now I am comfortably middle class but still love some struggle meals. What were some of your favorites?u/builtbybama_rolltide · Mar 8, 2020 · 11,418 points · 4,176 comments · text post
9. First time making Turkey Pot Pie from scratch. Made with homemade stock from turkey bones and veggie scraps and homemade pie crust. It was damn delicious. I am proud of myself today.u/PoppyNicole · Dec 9, 2020 · gallery
10. Scallion Hua Juan! They're Chinese steamed flower buns - quite soft but still have a slight bite, savoury and flavoured with chopped scallionsu/Cherryday11 · Mar 7, 2021 · gallery

What r/EatCheapAndHealthy talks about

Looking at the titles of 63 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 27), the words that come up most are “healthy”, “food”, “eating”, “meals” and “eat”. Other frequent themes are plan, foods, diet, cook, cooking and recipes. Recurring phrases include “eating healthy”, “meal plan”, “managing office” and “office cooking”. By format, 100% are text posts.

• healthy 11
• food 8
• eating 6
• meals 5
• eat 5
• plan 4
• foods 4
• diet 4
• cook 4
• cooking 4
• recipes 4
• cheap 4
• built 3
• advice 3
• eggs 3
• calorie 3
• meal 3
• recipe 3

Popular post flairs: Ask ECAH (20), Food (11), recipe (6), misc (3), Budget (2), image (1).

Activity and best time to post

r/EatCheapAndHealthy gets about 10 new posts a day. The public archive holds 110,458 posts and 2,582,791 comments in total, about 23.4 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (14 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (3). Posting peaks around 13:00 UTC and is lowest around 03:00 UTC.

Rules of r/EatCheapAndHealthy

The moderators of r/EatCheapAndHealthy list 6 rules. In short:

1. All link or image posts must include a formatted text recipe.
2. Reddiquette is enforced
3. ECAH mantra
4. WIKI index
5. Read the Mantra, and know what it means. We will ban users who do not comply.
6. Reddiquette 2.0

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

Stats from public data (data updated Oct 29, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Oct 29, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/EatCheapAndHealthy.