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)
 

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Itll do for now till i finish allprotien sources

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Good stuff.

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

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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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Wheat gluten is another option for making seitan with

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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

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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

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.

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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

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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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That answer your question

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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.

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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?

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

Yeah sounds good mate, whats needed? Can customise it to suit.

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Just out of interest what do you guys eat your TVP with, in terms of other foods with that meal?

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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!

Rich -  so you just rehyrdrate it and add some splenda or whatever?  Whats it like?  That could be a really cheap protein/carb meal for work.  Add some peanut butter for fat maybe?

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Where do you buy TVP from and what do you use it for. Is it high in protein?

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£1.35 for 375g bag.

250-300ml Hot water + 10 Sweetners dissolved + 100g dry Soya + tsp cinnamon = Mix it up, eat!
Cutting on a strict diet at the moment so dont allow it, but later ill be adding raisins and all types of goodness.
By the way i've tried sweeters + Vanilla, Strawberry, Cocoa, Pepper mint, Cocoa+Peppermint, Choco+vanilla and loads of other flavours but cinnamon is king(plus a good addition to ones diet).

yum yum yum - Sweet cinnamony lovelyness with 51g of protein, 2g fat and 21 carbs...muha!

Ive posted this numerous times, every time i got called crazy by everyone else who eats soyamince(tio/daveo and others have posted other recipes btw). I personally cant stand it in bolognese sauce, tastes like rubberyness...but sweet? yum.

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http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?Store=1&Product=58669  

£1.35 for 375g bag.

250-300ml Hot water + 10 Sweetners dissolved + 100g dry Soya + tsp cinnamon = Mix it up, eat!
Cutting on a strict diet at the moment so dont allow it, but later ill be adding raisins and all types of goodness.
By the way i've tried sweeters + Vanilla, Strawberry, Cocoa, Pepper mint, Cocoa+Peppermint, Choco+vanilla and loads of other flavours but cinnamon is king(plus a good addition to ones diet).

yum yum yum - Sweet cinnamony lovelyness with 51g of protein, 2g fat and 21 carbs...muha!

Ive posted this numerous times, every time i got called crazy by everyone else who eats soyamince(tio/daveo and others have posted other recipes btw). I personally cant stand it in bolognese sauce, tastes like rubberyness...but sweet? yum.

As you know mate, I'm low carbing at the minute, but that could make a great cheap meal when I bulk again.  Even on a TKD style lean bulk.
 
What would it be like if I did this the night before and had it cold at work the next day?

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Absolutely fine the next day.
I'm unsure of bacteria growth in TVP/soya mince if left hydrated for along time - So to be cautious i would keep it cool(fridge), or simply dont add water untill you get to work (Every place has a kettle right?) just mix up splenda/cinnamon/soya. Or to save more cash, crush the sweetners into fine powder and mix up :) .

TKD, whats that stand for? Something like "The Kash Death" diet  right? =p

Check out Seitan also, TIO unleashed this upon me and im trying to source some Wheat gluten now to make it(add water = Seitan).

Use the search for TVP recipes :)

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Rich it needs ENgevita nutritional yeast flakes to go with it to make it a complete protein. Also it adds some good flavour to it.

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thanks richsINS i will have a look for it in tesco, doesnt look like it will be nice how you eat it but im always willing to try new things so will give it a go. Will have to find something instead of cinnamon though dont like that but sounds a cheap protein sourse, will search other receipes too.

If you can eat oats, i see no reason why anyone would dislike TVP the way i eat it (Assuming u like sweet/cinnamon obv haha).  If you dont, swap the flavour...Choco or perhaps even nutmeg? Pumpkin/pumpkin spice?

Ah plenty of hours spent in the kitchen experimenting :)

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richsINS would golden syrup work in this thats what i use in my oats

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Rich it needs ENgevita nutritional yeast flakes to go with it to make it a complete protein. Also it adds some good flavour to it.

Just reiterate; this is an issue with MANY plant based protein sources not just gluten.

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Rich it needs ENgevita nutritional yeast flakes to go with it to make it a complete protein. Also it adds some good flavour to it.

Just reiterate; this is an issue with MANY plant based protein sources not just gluten.

Perhaps an article to enlighten people to get around this

Come on Drew, you know you want to  

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richsINS would golden syrup work in this thats what i use in my oats

No that would cause a explosion!
 
A taste explosion lol, use anything mate its essentially just a flavourless product that can be brought to life with salt and pepper, Stocks, Hot chocolate, you name it...Hell have chilli flavour if you like it lol.

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Ok been working on updated list, more exhaustive (due to TIOS article request).
Ill have the graph up soon

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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.

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You got a PM tio, not final version still has errors but i definately like the format.

Here it is ladies http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=proteincontentcopy.jpg   huge image.

Carb:pro ratio is exactly that, ammount of carbs you get to the ammount of protein you get. A high carb ratio would therefore be in things like rice(mainly carbs w/little protein).

From left to right is cheapest sources to most expensive. Peanuts are the cheapest, however note the VERY HIGH fat:pro ratio - This food will have a huge ammount of fat going along with its protein so not good for a low fat diet.

Food on the left with low carb and fat/pro ratios are therefore the best (Pigs liver anyone?).

When i can be assed ill get the 100% correct version up, note right now CHICK PEAS weren't corrected for drained weight along with some other products.

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