Cost of food

[H 3 L L S M A N]

Sam's club...Bulk food store....20lbs chicken cost about 23$....I save over 120$ over Walmart/meijer and it last 2x as long

A Huge supercenter Walmart in my area greats deal on food I like it, I do miss Costco and those other bulk food stores they had nice stuff there.

 

[grind4it]

Lol!

Okay, now add 7 dozen cage free eggs, 6lbs of USDA Choice Sirloin, 3lbs of 97/3 ground beef, 1 loaf of Ezekil bread and 1 bag of Ezekil English muffins...oh yea and 4 baskets of black berries.

I know this should go in the diet section or somewhere else, but way more people look at this section. I have read a bunch of people talk about how expensive it is to eat clean. Where the hell are you guys shopping at?
I just picked up:
20lbs of chicken breast- $38
10lbs of oats- $8
12lbs of vegetables- $12
3lbs of almonds- $11
6lbs of pork chops- $20
3lbs of salmon- $16
4lbs of shredded wheat- $6
10lbs of brown rice- $13
For a grand total of $143 after tax

We already have other stuff at the house, salads, breads, etc. but this is what we just picked up last night for the bulk of our groceries for a few weeks.


This food will last me and my wife over two weeks. At 6 meals a day for each of us. That comes out to 168 meals combined for both of us. So if you figure it costs us $143 to make 168 meals, each meal costs us roughly 85 cents.

Say it costs on average $8 to eat lunch at a fast food joint everyday, you spend almost $60 on one meal a day, or 7 meals a week, and almost spend half as much as me and my wife do for 168, or two weeks worth, of meals for both of us eating 6 meals per day.

For those not following along how I got to 168 meals
6 meals per day for one person for 14 days = 84 meals
Multiply that by 2 since my wife does the same = 168

If you can spend the few hundred to thousand dollars on your gear, Aromatase inhibitor (AI), post cycle therapy (pct), supplements etc. Then don't complain about how much it costs you to eat out everyday when you can save yourself a shit ton of money by eating healthy food, and eating way more than you can by eating out. Another way to save money, is to buy a water purifier and just refill your gallon water jug, or just drink tap water but some places have pretty gross tap water.

 

[MrMitcheyBoy]

Like I said it is the bulk of what we buy, we already have other meats and stuff from the previous grocery shopping and other stuff such as eggs, but obviously not 30 plus pounds at the house or we wouldn't have just gone shopping. We probably have 6 to 10 pounds of meat in the house before we go shopping again. Yes, it last me and my wife, who is all of 115lbs, and myself being 207lbs. Neither of us are eating enough for bulking, but I am slowly putting on weight, I eat about 2 to 300 calories over what I expend per day. I eat right at 4000 to 4200 calories per day. She is in great shape now, just trying to get her 4 pack into a six. Not that you don't eat as much as you say, but 35lbs of just chicken sounds like a lot to me in one week, I know I get sick just thinking about eating tuna because I eat a bunch of it lol I'm sure you are the same with chicken eating that much a week. We don't eat meat for every meal, usually I have some type of meat for 3 meals in the day.

I'm an athlete, not a body builder, but have began recently trying to add a little weight and did my first test e cycle. Added about 11 pounds of muscle and have kept every pound. Keep in mind I run 6+ miles per day on top of my workouts, so I must be eating enough to continue to grow. My goals are not to add anything but good solid gains.

Most expensive, yes over the long run because you always need food. You don't always need gear. But for the people who complain about the costs of how much food is probably aren't looking for ways to save money on their food. Like I said, eating out is way more expensive when you break it down, and the vast majority of people spend way to much money on their food. If you take that few hundred bucks you were going to spend on gear and put it to use on a good diet you would probably see better results.

Never eat out, all ways looking for the bargains, my goals could be different to your's. You can't really say people are spending too much on food because they might have different goals to yours. I all ways go for the bargains and bulk cheap meat. Don't buy any whole chicken in a blender then shaped into a chicken nugget type food just stick to the clean stuff. The prices are crazy high over here so what you brought for 2 weeks would cost triple for me. You can't tar with the same brush.

I'm not being a prick, just stating the truth and it hurts even me (especially my wallet)

 

[Harnold]

making lunches for two kids,my wife, and me is costing us about $300 a week before meat. chicken prices here in Canada are brutal too.

 

[H 3 L L S M A N]

making lunches for two kids,my wife, and me is costing us about $300 a week before meat. chicken prices here in Canada are brutal too.

Damm right, because I have the option to do it, that's why I shop in the United States.

 

[travelling lifter]

Back to the original theme, if you are serious about using aas and training, diet is essential aas will cover sloppy eating, but I am a firm believer in go hard or go home, aas aren't for weekend warriors, but even if you're not on them, you won't see true results in the gym without a quality diet and the diet is what costs money especially if you eat clean.

Bottom line, a bag of chips, $1, a pound of chicken $2

 

[Chi23]

i gotta say i love live with my mom still she pays for all my food and even cooks it for me!!!

 

[jon emberlin]

Not to mention the human body is extremely wasteful when it comes to absorption and what it utilizes compared to animals in the wild.

If you want full absorption bro then check out Betaine Hydrochloride with pepsin.This will allow you to digest almost all the protein you consume!! I use the 600mg.

 

[peat88]

Eat cats / dogs walkin the street at night, its full of protein and cheap... 0$ we do that in kazakstan

 

[H 3 L L S M A N]

If you want full absorption bro then check out Betaine Hydrochloride with pepsin.This will allow you to digest almost all the protein you consume!! I use the 600mg.

Where is this at on one of the sponsor sites, never heard of it. Thanks.

EDIT: Never mind its on Amazon and probably everywhere else, okay I will try it out.

 

[V&M]

Harnold I have no idea where you live in Canada but if you are in the Toronto area (miss/oakville) you might want to try Maple Lodge Farms. They have a factory where you used to be able to buy it direct and cheap but of course they moved that down the road and it's now more expensive but MUCH better than regular stores.

 

[travelling lifter]

Eat cats / dogs walkin the street at night, its full of protein and cheap... 0$ we do that in kazakstan

The little Grey cats are the tastiest I find

 

[noway55]

the only decent price i can find on meat is at walmart, they usually have chicken breast at $2/lb, and pork near $3... i really doubt the stuff from walmart is top quality, but i don't have the money to blow on organic/grassfed stuff. wish i did