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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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Define "makes a difference"wait u guys actually think it makes a difference
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.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.
That's actually insane. And yes. My beloved Body Fortress whey has gone from $33 for 5lbs to nearly $70.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.
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.That's actually insane. And yes. My beloved Body Fortress whey has gone from $33 for 5lbs to nearly $70.
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 priceI 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.