Price of protein - Helping you choose the cheapest options (Credit crunch!)

I've done a little price research looking at some common protein sources (Quark, meats, Soya mince) and graphed them. This graph was mainly for my use, but thought sharing it will help you guys save some cash and help vary your protein intake.
 
Protein prices have increased significantly since i made my last graph, suprised by some items!

Soya mince & Tuna being the cheapest, forgot about eggs & cottage cheese.
 
ASDA Smartprice Natural Low Fat Cottage Cheese (200g) = 77p/50g protein serving. Flavours will increase price significantly!
Eggs(10p per egg average basics/caged range) = 55g/egg   about 80p for 50g assuming whole thing eaten(yolk too)
 

Direct link http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7215/priceofprotein.jpg 
 
Itll do for now till i finish allprotien sources

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Class I'm impressed,

 Binalots on the way to being Bigalot
 
Age 46   Height 5'10   81.5kg
 

Good stuff.

The dried soya I get costs about £2 and is 50g per 100g, and gives 6 portions.

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Good man....

dez_gimed


Good stuff.

The dried soya I get costs about £2 and is 50g per 100g, and gives 6 portions.

What store/quantity is the packets?  Always welcome a lower price :D
I get the tesco 375g bags (around £1.35...used to be 99p(sob sob)). Gives 51g pro dry weight, awesome stuff!

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GOOD STUFF!

I've pinned this to the top purely becuase of the effort put in! Now I'll go away and see if I'm allowed to!

Drew Price BSc MAppSc R.Nutr. CSCS
Sports Nutritionist and S&C coach
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Good post - we'll keep this up here for a few weeks

James Collier
MT Co-Owner & Nutrition Consultant

Wheat gluten is another option for making seitan with

Could we get some Aldi/Lidl prices in here as well? Their value and quality for money tops the other super markets by far IMHO.
 
I would be glad to get some prices when I am in.

If you can provide the:

Products name,
Weight,
Price,
Protein/100g (RAW/UNCOOKED) then i can update the chart. 

Will also add pilchards and other products, feel free to make suggestions.

Although tuna and soya mince maybe the cheapest, please continue to vary your protein sources for maximum benefits.

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Ok

Vital WHeat gluten

http://www.lowcarbmegastore.com/ingredients/wheat-gluten-powder-1kg


£2.80 per kilo
Protein per 100g raw uncooked 80g

theiopener


Ok

Vital WHeat gluten
http://www.lowcarbmegastore.com/ingredients/wheat-gluten-powder-1kg
£2.80 per kilo
Protein per 100g raw uncooked 80g

Wow very impressive @ 17p for 50g protein, how are you consuming this? *Watches TIO eat dry powder*
Tuna has been corrected now for DRAINED weight, apologise for incorrect data - Tuna is expensive @ 88p for 50g protein.

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No mate i make seitan with it. I make it into sausage, pepperoni, steaklets, ground beef style. I even use it in protein pancakes as a flour replacer. Its quite versatile, fat free and low carb too.

Ah was just reading Wikipedia about seitan, interesting! Seems very versitile as youve said.
How much was this product to deliver? Maybe a good addition to my diet along side TVP.

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I think under £5 usually. I get around 10kg at a time as i use a lot of it per day. I use it in addition to TVP, helps when making meetballs and meetloaf as well as other things.

SO far ive has two omnovores say it tastes like meat when i gave them some pepperoni and italian sausage i made

Yeah delivery hurts a bit, perhaps i can source it locally not sure. Have you tried making it sweet?

I notice you all use TVP savoury(Chilli, bolonese etc) i personally have it sweet like i'd have oats, yum!

A bit of reading seems to suggest its lacking Lysine ammino acid, i suppose this can be made up for by consuming it with a food high in this.

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http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=12938.0
http://www.postpunkkitchen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=24574


That answer your question

Unflavoured whey from sports-nutrition is 47p for 50g of protein.

(£32.94 for 4.4kg of 78% protein -  includes delivery)

But unlike buying the supermarket, the initial cost is quite high.

http://www.ugm.org.uk

I joined this site for everyone's vast knowledge and what I heard is a great community. But now it seems being in the states I need to get a currency and weight converter.....lol....give me a bit and I'll follow along. :)

(or cut and paste everything I read into google) :)

Nice graph btw.....

rich im working on a article right now that could do with your graph as it goes, would you care to collaborate?