Your Weekly Meal Plan, Priced Right

You set the budget. We do the maths. Enter what's in your pantry and what you can spend this week, and RandPlates shows you what you can cook — ranked by ingredient overlap and real cost per plate. It's built as a cheap meal plan South Africa can actually use: offline, fast, no sign-up. You get seven days of meals that stay inside your budget, plus one consolidated shopping list to take to the spaza or supermarket.

What to cook with pap you already have

Your pap, rice, or morogo should lead the plan, not sit at the back. The engine checks what you already have and pushes those recipes to the top, so you use what's in your kitchen first. You'll see how much of each recipe you already cover, what's still missing, and the cost per plate in Rands and cents, lined up so you can compare. Less waste, more of your staples doing the work.

R500 grocery list or R400 — built for your budget

Whether you're planning a R500 grocery list or a tight grocery list for R400, you need numbers that match the till slip. RandPlates builds budget meals for a week South Africa can shop for — one list, total cost, priced from real local retailers. Every ingredient shows quantity and price, every meal shows cost per plate. If a plan goes over, it tells you and shows the next best fit inside your budget.

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Prices updated October 2026 — real retailers, no AI guesses. The table below is the same data the app plans with: the cheapest verified row per staple across Checkers, Pick n Pay (PNP) and Shoprite, each with its brand, pack size and the date it was verified.