How to eat 200g of protein a day?

Jay.D said:
Am I alone here in that when I go shopping I'm always looking at £ per Kg?

I've always found asda/tesco/sainsburys/morrisons a tad expensive for their chicken and turkey, netto usually do £5/Kg which is about 50% cheaper than the other supermarkets.
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No your not alone, im always using that method to see whats the best value wise.

Is it the same chicken at Netto, or have they just injected so much water into the chicken that they can afford to lower the prices.

I need to build up a reputation with my local butcher it seems :D
 
Djdom56 said:
FF, if you don't mind me asking how much roughly do you spend a week on food.

Sorry if a little personal it's just one of the reasons I take shakes is to cut down on costs :).
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No not too personal at all! :)

And, for the record, I completely agree that shakes are a good way of keeping costs down, however, I just prefer eating food! :D

I spend between £60-£80 per week (obviously it varies depending on how much I do in batch cooking and freeze etc...). That's for me alone. Is that enough detail or do you want more? :)
 
Jay.D said:
Am I alone here in that when I go shopping I'm always looking at £ per Kg?

I've always found asda/tesco/sainsburys/morrisons a tad expensive for their chicken and turkey, netto usually do £5/Kg which is about 50% cheaper than the other supermarkets.
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I do the same, waitrose were pretty good. Fresh chicken breasts are £7 for 1kg pack and they come individually in sealed bags for freezing. But then I saw you can get 1.5kg already frozen just not fully deboned and not bagged for the same price.
 
A little tip is to go to the supermarket at about 8pm when the final markdowns are on. It's easier for me because my mother is a team leader at my local sainsburys and she's often finishing that time anyway but as an example last week she picked me up 6 packs of

Sainsburys fresh Chicken breast fillets 550-750g (normally 13.99/kg reduced to 6.99kg)

4 packs of

Turkey steaks 428g



for just over £15, simply because they were short dated.
I just separate them into individual bags and stick them straight in the freezer and defrost as required.

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roid said:
No your not alone, im always using that method to see whats the best value wise.

Is it the same chicken at Netto, or have they just injected so much water into the chicken that they can afford to lower the prices.

I need to build up a reputation with my local butcher it seems :D
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yeah i would say getting friendly with the local butcher would be a great thing to do. you can haggle with them then and he should either give you good deals or stuff for free, one he knows your a regular customer and not taking the pee.

some butchers may be more expensive, so know your prices before hand.
 
This thread is doing a great job of stopping people from using supplements and eating proper food, i would still recommend using multi-vitamin pills though, as i've found i can never really get enough vitamins without them despite i eat my 5 a day, and possibly having some fish oils as well.
 
Between April and September I spend a couple of days a week Trout fishing, so have more fish oil than I know what to do with!
 
Just did a shopping list on Sainsburys' site for a months worth of shopping, keeping money in mind as well, managed to spend £102 a month on shopping, brilliant tbh considering some of the things can last more than a month, no more supplements for me from now on tbh.
 
Freefaller said:
Use walnut/nut oils, or olive oils.
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Why so? Are the better than Veg oil? Would you rather cook in olive oil than veg oil?

$loth said:
I do the same, waitrose were pretty good. Fresh chicken breasts are £7 for 1kg pack and they come individually in sealed bags for freezing. But then I saw you can get 1.5kg already frozen just not fully deboned and not bagged for the same price.
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That's pretty damn good. I'm 99% sure that 950g of chicken breast was £8.60 (might even have been £9.60!) in Asda earlier today so I bought 3x300g of sliced chicken for £2 each instead. Although I hate supermarket chicken, (you can literally see through some parts of it :s) it's all that is feasible at the moment, I don't know of any local butchers.


'Wes said:
Just did a shopping list on Sainsburys' site for a months worth of shopping, keeping money in mind as well, managed to spend £102 a month on shopping, brilliant tbh considering some of the things can last more than a month, no more supplements for me from now on tbh.
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That is cheap as ****! I've spent £100 minimum over the last 2 weeks (probably more in fact) but that does include booze (:().
 
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sigma said:
Why so? Are the better than Veg oil? Would you rather cook in olive oil than veg oil?



That's pretty damn good. I'm 99% sure that 950g of chicken breast was £8.60 (might even have been £9.60!) in Asda earlier today so I bought 3x300g of sliced chicken for £2 each instead. Although I hate supermarket chicken, (you can literally see through some parts of it :s) it's all that is feasible at the moment, I don't know of any local butchers.





That is cheap as ****! I've spent £100 minimum over the last 2 weeks (probably more in fact) but that does include booze (:().
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olive oil is not a cooking oil

this means that you should not cook with olive oil.

i repeat again, olive oil should not be used to cook food.

im amazed at how many people have fallen for olive oil, just because jamie oliver and gordan ramsey and other tv chefs use it for cooking with.

it also costs anywhere between £3 and £20 a litre.

ground nut oil is a cooking oil, in the top 3 healthiest cooking oils you can use in the world (the other two being coconut oil and rice bran oil) yet only costs £1.50 a litre.

olive oil has a low smoking point (burning point), when a oil hits its burning point it turns to crap, therefore when you cook with olive oil, and it hits its burning point all the healthiness of it dies and it turns into something which is extremely unhealthy.


olive oil should be drunk (yes like a shot of espresso). or used on top of salads (if your into oily salad), otherwise throw it away and get some proper cooking oil.
 
Yup. Sonny's got it right. Though you can cook with olive oil you just have to use it the right way. However for frying I always use walnut or almond oil and often butter too! :D
 
Must admit my mother also tells me not to cook with olive oil too, which is why I was questioning FF as he seems to know his stuff too.

We use veg oil but I will give ground nut oil a try, thanks.
 
p4radox said:
You might have a feeling, but do you have any evidence? I'm genuinely curious.:)
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I couldn't guarantee that 200g a day will do you harm, but it will certainly place a heavy load on the kidneys. If there is any underlying problem, then that amount of protein will certainly seek it out.

Before I went onto dialysis I was on a 20g of protein a day diet. It just seems eating 10 times that amount every day is a little unwise. It's also a waste of money as your body won't use it, it will just get expelled in your urine. You should probably speak to your GP before committing to that regime, unless of course you don't care about your long term health and prefer to take the advice of someone in the gym.
 
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