Protein Powder Has Doubled In Price

I buy the 5lb tubs in isolate and they’ve jumped up about $15 dollars (what I use anyway). But that will last me all month so $70 is still worth it to me.
 
At a certain point you're better off buying dry beans and bone in chicken.
 
I have noticed also, but so have beef prices, so I figure its still cheaper to drink a shake then eat a steak.

Bry
 
Creatine jumped up too. I gotta get a cheap bulk source again.
 
I buy 1KG of 80/20 ground beef from the upscale store here in England (Waitrose) and it's £4. That's 257G of protein per day. Plus it's a whole food, delicious, versatile, full of nutrition. etc.

Why are you all buying that powdered crap? Just eat real food, get over yourself.
 
I went to buy 12 extra large white, non organic, no free range eggs and it was $5.55.
18 pack was just under $9.

What the fuck.
 
Toothlessjoe said:
I buy 1KG of 80/20 ground beef from the upscale store here in England (Waitrose) and it's £4. That's 257G of protein per day. Plus it's a whole food, delicious, versatile, full of nutrition. etc.

Why are you all buying that powdered crap? Just eat real food, get over yourself.
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Y'all must have some alien super proteinated beef over there or maybe you just can't do math? Seems like you are off, high by about a third and you are giving people shit ? Or maybe I'm missing something, go ahead and straighten me out please. How are you getting 257g of protein out of your 1kg ? Are you claiming you are eating a kg and a half of that slop everyday by the way?
BTW Whey protein is the most efficient and bioavailable commonly available source. Probably doesn't make sense to compare North America to the UK but it's also much cheaper per gram where I live, off the top of my head probably by a third or so and doesn't come with 200g/1800 calories of extra unwanted fat
 
1rawdog said:
Y'all must have some alien super proteinated beef over there or maybe you just can't do math? Seems like you are off, high by about a third and you are giving people shit ? Or maybe I'm missing something, go ahead and straighten me out please. How are you getting 257g of protein out of your 1kg ? Are you claiming you are eating a kg and a half of that slop everyday by the way?
BTW Whey protein is the most efficient and bioavailable commonly available source. Probably doesn't make sense to compare North America to the UK but it's also much cheaper per gram where I live, off the top of my head probably by a third or so and doesn't come with 200g/1800 calories of extra unwanted fat
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You can Google it my friend (https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/essential-20-fat-british-beef-mince/628170-726394-726395).
It's labelled as 25.7G per 100G protein content. So 1000g is 257.

We generally have higher quality meat in the UK, which yields higher nutritional content.

Cheers then.
 
Toothlessjoe said:
You can Google it my friend (https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/essential-20-fat-british-beef-mince/628170-726394-726395).
It's labelled as 25.7G per 100G protein content. So 1000g is 257.

We generally have higher quality meat in the UK, which yields higher nutritional content.

Cheers then.
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Thanks for the response. Wow that's a crazy difference, almost like they were measuring that after cooking. I'd love to see an explanation if anyone comes across one.

Regardless whey has it's conveniences and is simple to dose. How much of that beef do you eat in a day, still curious
 
1rawdog said:
Thanks for the response. Wow that's a crazy difference, almost like they were measuring that after cooking. I'd love to see an explanation if anyone comes across one.

Regardless whey has it's conveniences and is simple to dose. How much of that beef do you eat in a day, still curious
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No problem, you'll be interested to know that the lower fat -- 10% and 5%-- of the same ground beef there has LESS protein per 100g by about 5g-6g. I assume it's due to processing perhaps? That said, it's all grass fed, traceable, Aberdeen Angus there.

I eat 500g - 1000g per day depending on my goals. I eat mostly carnivore, -- you burn about 30% ballpark of any protein just digesting it -- so it's easy to eat a lot and stay lean on that diet style.

As far as whey, I'd rather just eat real foods since I'm into "natural" eating (and I enjoy eating meals)- I'm sure I've seen discussions about the powdered nature and digestion rate that can promote long term health issues. Could be wrong though!
 
Inflation in Germany is 10%. Did get a pay raise. I kinda don't care bout whey prices, I'm super slow finishing mine. I treat it as food and only drink it if I feel like it. Right now before the gym a shake would be nice but I'm out of milk. In Europe everything has gone up price wise. I remember when milk was 55 cent now it's 1 €.
 
Toothlessjoe said:
I buy 1KG of 80/20 ground beef from the upscale store here in England (Waitrose) and it's £4. That's 257G of protein per day. Plus it's a whole food, delicious, versatile, full of nutrition. etc.

Why are you all buying that powdered crap? Just eat real food, get over yourself.
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Ooo Waitrose, get you high baller.

I end up just buying a few 3 KG packs from costco
 
deadshot138 said:
Stuff I used to get for $33 is going for $70. Anyone else experiencing this? May be the incentive I need to stop drinking protein shakes.
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I started calling out the ridiculous pricing of protein powders a decade ago here on Sherdog. It's not about inflation. It's about demand.

It smacked me in the face when I was shopping at Wal-Mart (#inb4usoundpoor), and after strolling from the food section to the pharmaceutical section, where the protein powders are shelved at my local Wal-Mart, I noticed the price per pound of the Rib-Eye steaks was less than the price per pound of the cheapest protein powder on the shelves at its lowest bulk rate: Wal-Mart's in-house "Six Star" brand at the time.
 
Madmick said:
I started calling out the ridiculous pricing of protein powders a decade ago here on Sherdog. It's not about inflation. It's about demand.

It smacked me in the face when I was shopping at Wal-Mart (#inb4usoundpoor), and after strolling from the food section to the pharmaceutical section, where the protein powders are shelved at my local Wal-Mart, I noticed the price per pound of the Rib-Eye steaks was less than the price per pound of the cheapest protein powder on the shelves at its lowest bulk rate: Wal-Mart's in-house "Six Star" brand at the time.
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That's actually insane. And yes. My beloved Body Fortress whey has gone from $33 for 5lbs to nearly $70.
 
deadshot138 said:
That's actually insane. And yes. My beloved Body Fortress whey has gone from $33 for 5lbs to nearly $70.
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I don't know if it came back down to that because $33 for 5 lbs is totally reasonable, and what I remembered was a pretty standard price on the cheap stuff through the 00's before pricing took off, and it got stupid. Ten years ago that Six Star stuff was running ~$25 for 2lbs, or $12.50/lb. Wal-Mart rib-eye at the time was running around $8/lb-$9/lb per pound depending on the day. I suddenly realized, "Why in the fuck am I slamming a shake when I could eat a steak for that price every night?" Convenience is only worth so much. Doesn't take more than 5-10 minutes to grill a steak if all you're doing is slamming protein, not throwing together a whole dinner.

And yeah, at $70, you're talking $14/lb of protein powder. My local Wal-Mart is showing Choice New York Strips for $10.97/lb, right now.
 
Madmick said:
I don't know if it came back down to that because $33 for 5 lbs is totally reasonable, and what I remembered was a pretty standard price on the cheap stuff through the 00's before pricing took off, and it got stupid. Ten years ago that Six Star stuff was running ~$25 for 2lbs, or $12.50/lb. Wal-Mart rib-eye at the time was running around $8/lb-$9/lb per pound depending on the day. I suddenly realized, "Why in the fuck am I slamming a shake when I could eat a steak for that price every night?" Convenience is only worth so much. Doesn't take more than 5-10 minutes to grill a steak if all you're doing is slamming protein, not throwing together a whole dinner.

And yeah, at $70, you're talking $14/lb of protein powder. My local Wal-Mart is showing Choice New York Strips for $10.97/lb, right now.
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I paid $95 for 5lbs of grass fed organic whey. You're right. A chicken breast is probably more bioavailable for a fraction of the price
 
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