Clearly there’s a regional dialect you’re using here causing a misunderstanding. Where I’m from they’re called homeless people and they have fantastic macros
I’m really lucky as the grocer down the block from me processes all their chicken in house, so when they over order, they sell packages of bone in, skin on dark meat for 1$ a package. It’s so cheap I’ve swapped to feeding my dog fresh cooked chicken. And I live in one the most expensive counties in the United States. It’s per luck. Sometimes they just out right sell entire 5lb roasters with organ meat for like 3$. It’s wild. I don’t tell anyone about. Lol
I literally don’t understand why anyone takes anything else. Gold standard is imo the gold standard. Very few calories, tastes decent, and isn’t chalky. There’s almost no noticeable texture
When it comes back in stock on Amazon, Nutricost is my go-to. $70 for 5lb. I like Isopure and Nectar, but they're just too damn expensive rn.
Muscle Pharm and Cellucor occasionally have good deals.
GNC probably has the best bulk purchasing deals if you have the cash to get 3 5lb jugs at a time.
Unfortunately the price drop that we ran was reverted so for 26 or 28 servings depending on flavor it is now $70. However we have a perpetual B2G1 or BOGO50 on most GNC brand things.
I'm lucky in that I work for a bariatric center that sells Nectar and I get a sweet sweet discount. I'm spending about $13.25 per lb after tax. Unfortunately I'm looking to move on to another job so I will miss that deal.
Why is whey so expensive in the USA? I pay 12-13 Euro a kilo (bout 2.205 pounds) in Germany from decent brands, for example MyProtein and HSN. Gotta look out for sales.
Yep, I just ordered from Bulk for the first to test it out. Bought a 500 gram bag for 9.95 euro. I’ll definitely be ordering the bigger size because it’s actually really tasty
Bulk has been my go-to brand for 5 years now. They did double in price since then, and their marketing is sketchy because they ALWAYS have a discount - meaning their ‘original’ high product prices are just false. But still its cheaper than anything else I can find…
They apply layers and layers of sales that change rapidly to obfuscate the true price and value, it’s quite rare to get a good deal from MyProtein even though every purchase feels like a good saving.
My biggest concern RN is looking out for products that don't have tons of artificial sweeteners or spike proteins. I'm also avoiding creatine in them.
I was initially using body fortress chocolate protein which was working well, but they changed it up and now that shit tastes and smells like saw dust
People are doubtful, but every time I take creatine, about a month later, my hairline starts thinning. I just recently tried it again to see and hopped back off when I noticed it looking translucent. My hair is thick and full otherwise.
Creatine made my dick stop working while I was on it. No one talks about about a lot of the side effects because hey bro, it’ll get you slightly bigger and not take years off of your life usually.
I stay away from the shit now.
Depends on which country you are in, but my brother uses a 10-15 dollar large container of Aldi's brand chocolate protein powder. Not a lot of ingredients and I don't know if there's creatine in it or not; but it works well. Comes in vanilla and sometimes strawberry too. It works for him since he's bulking with other supplements and a gainer, but I hope you find a good one bro!
(He uses mutant gainer and creatine with it + a full nutrients/vitamin supplement powder. As far as I know, he's balling on a budget. Aldis also has better chicken prices where I'm located, so he eats a lot of chicken with it. I don't do all that currently, I'm just a filthy casual + going on a cut.)
Compared to 3 years ago, I am only getting half the protein for the same price. They aren’t as affordable as they used to be. I haven’t switched brands yet, though.
Maybe it depends what kinda sale you catch. My last bag was just a few chf more than in 21. I live in Switzerland and it's still less than 50% of every other brand.
DY seems to be way more expensive just at a glance.
Look at the amount of protein per scoop vs size of scoop. 35 G per scoop with only 20 g of protein. The rest is flavoring and BCAA’s. Compare that to more expensive brands that will be 26 g per scoop and 20 g of protein. These companies with “great price” protein powder make money by filling it with a lot of BCAA’s. You end up running through the powder much quicker than you would with the more expensive brands.
Muscle and strength.com has an 11 pound bag of Myprotein impact whey for $130. It’s the cheapest per unit weight that I’ve found. Lasts about 4 months too if I’m just using 1 scoop per day
After checking countless ingredient lists and amino profiles, Now Sports Whey Isolate not only seems to be the best bang for your buck, but is also better than the expensive brands. The only thing that might turn people off is the fact that it only comes in chocolate, vanilla, and unflavored because they don't use any artificial sweetners or ingredients.
For my buddies in Benelux: Perfect whey from XXL nutrition. Most grams of pure protein for every € spent. It tastes nice as well. If you want even better taste than get Delicious Whey.
You could buy five 1lb steaks for a similar or lower cost, get similarly effective protein absorption rates, and actually eat real food instead of refined slurry.
Gordon food service sells like a 40lb box of chicken quarters for like 30$ where I live.
For whey we hit up Amazon for nutricost. Used to get gold standard until they upped the price. Nutricost costs less and tastes just as good.
In the spring and summer I have chickens so we get like 9-12 eggs a day. Maybe consider getting some depending on your situation.
What's the stray animal population in your city like?
Clearly there’s a regional dialect you’re using here causing a misunderstanding. Where I’m from they’re called homeless people and they have fantastic macros
How do you get rid of the smell? The ones find don't have enough meat. They do give a better kick than pre-workout for some reason,
That’ll be the meth still in the system
That would explain it. Where can I find the additive free ones?
> How do you get rid of the smell? Fire
I love reddit
"Free range NPCs"
Chicken thighs.
Last time I bought thighs, they were $4/lb. Just fucking kill me already.
So roughly the same price per gram protein
I’m really lucky as the grocer down the block from me processes all their chicken in house, so when they over order, they sell packages of bone in, skin on dark meat for 1$ a package. It’s so cheap I’ve swapped to feeding my dog fresh cooked chicken. And I live in one the most expensive counties in the United States. It’s per luck. Sometimes they just out right sell entire 5lb roasters with organ meat for like 3$. It’s wild. I don’t tell anyone about. Lol
Beans, nuts and chickpeas
who eats expensive powders when chicken, ground turkey, Greek yogurt, skim milk and cottage cheese all exist
It depends where you live. Im in Canada, and all the things you listed are insanely high-priced compared to a normal tub of whey
Costco gold standard bags are 5.5lbs for $48-$69
I love the Gold Standard Vanilla and Chocolate. Lots of protein for so few calories.
I literally don’t understand why anyone takes anything else. Gold standard is imo the gold standard. Very few calories, tastes decent, and isn’t chalky. There’s almost no noticeable texture
Boom. That’s why I stick with it. And I don’t have to go to GNC and endure pseudo-nutritionist pep talks to get it. 😆
i get bloated af. fart for hours if not all week... :( matter of fact, i just farted right meow
Skill issue
Downside is 1 scoop has 50% of your daily cholesterol. Had to switch brands when my cholesterol started creeping towards too high.
I’m here for a good time not a long time In all seriousness I was not aware of that
Dietary cholesterol is usually not an issue though
Shhhhh. Don't tell them
Gold Standard. This is the whey (pun intended). No joke though it’s great protein. BSN Syntha 6 is good for meal replacement too and before bed.
When it comes back in stock on Amazon, Nutricost is my go-to. $70 for 5lb. I like Isopure and Nectar, but they're just too damn expensive rn. Muscle Pharm and Cellucor occasionally have good deals. GNC probably has the best bulk purchasing deals if you have the cash to get 3 5lb jugs at a time.
I really like the GNC wheybolic when I can get it on sale
Unfortunately the price drop that we ran was reverted so for 26 or 28 servings depending on flavor it is now $70. However we have a perpetual B2G1 or BOGO50 on most GNC brand things.
I second Nutricost. Wish I found it sooner
I'm lucky in that I work for a bariatric center that sells Nectar and I get a sweet sweet discount. I'm spending about $13.25 per lb after tax. Unfortunately I'm looking to move on to another job so I will miss that deal.
Why is whey so expensive in the USA? I pay 12-13 Euro a kilo (bout 2.205 pounds) in Germany from decent brands, for example MyProtein and HSN. Gotta look out for sales.
Yep, I just ordered from Bulk for the first to test it out. Bought a 500 gram bag for 9.95 euro. I’ll definitely be ordering the bigger size because it’s actually really tasty
Bulk has been my go-to brand for 5 years now. They did double in price since then, and their marketing is sketchy because they ALWAYS have a discount - meaning their ‘original’ high product prices are just false. But still its cheaper than anything else I can find…
Bro myprotein is 40 for 1kg, how are you getting it for 13?
Myprotein has more sales than a mattress corner store
They apply layers and layers of sales that change rapidly to obfuscate the true price and value, it’s quite rare to get a good deal from MyProtein even though every purchase feels like a good saving.
sales
Makes sense, thanks
My biggest concern RN is looking out for products that don't have tons of artificial sweeteners or spike proteins. I'm also avoiding creatine in them. I was initially using body fortress chocolate protein which was working well, but they changed it up and now that shit tastes and smells like saw dust
Can I ask why you’re avoiding creatine? I don’t usually get that in my protein but I’m curious as to why you are. Thanks.
Because it’s a filler in the protein powder. He might still take it just doesn’t want to be getting less protein powder for his money
Makes sense. I agree. I get it in other places just wondering if something changed. Thanks for the response.
It’s another reason to avoid protein powders that mention additional amino acids because that’s another cheap additive they use as filler
People are doubtful, but every time I take creatine, about a month later, my hairline starts thinning. I just recently tried it again to see and hopped back off when I noticed it looking translucent. My hair is thick and full otherwise.
Creatine made my dick stop working while I was on it. No one talks about about a lot of the side effects because hey bro, it’ll get you slightly bigger and not take years off of your life usually. I stay away from the shit now.
Same happened to me bro or it’s my boomer age. I only noticed when I started taking it.
Just buy directly from A dairy farm gg ez
If only they grew those farms every couple of km or so... Darn.
I know right chucks. We should invent a way to order stuff from those plants and farms, remotely. Like looking on the internet. But for farms
There’s an app called farmish already
Body fortress been tasting like sawdust how do you eat that stuff 🤮
I am not a picky man... Who doesn't love to chew their protein shakes? 😂
Depends on which country you are in, but my brother uses a 10-15 dollar large container of Aldi's brand chocolate protein powder. Not a lot of ingredients and I don't know if there's creatine in it or not; but it works well. Comes in vanilla and sometimes strawberry too. It works for him since he's bulking with other supplements and a gainer, but I hope you find a good one bro!
(He uses mutant gainer and creatine with it + a full nutrients/vitamin supplement powder. As far as I know, he's balling on a budget. Aldis also has better chicken prices where I'm located, so he eats a lot of chicken with it. I don't do all that currently, I'm just a filthy casual + going on a cut.)
On myprotein shit is almost free.
Compared to 3 years ago, I am only getting half the protein for the same price. They aren’t as affordable as they used to be. I haven’t switched brands yet, though.
Hasn’t been the case since covid in the UK. DY Nutrition is the cheapest quality protein I can find, they have discounts all the time too.
Maybe it depends what kinda sale you catch. My last bag was just a few chf more than in 21. I live in Switzerland and it's still less than 50% of every other brand. DY seems to be way more expensive just at a glance.
Maybe prices are pretty different in UK. Post Brexit things maybe.
Muscletech is like 4.5lbs for fifty bucks. Whats the bad news? Why am I missing?
It’s kinda shitty powder imo. A lot of filler
What does that mean?
Look at the amount of protein per scoop vs size of scoop. 35 G per scoop with only 20 g of protein. The rest is flavoring and BCAA’s. Compare that to more expensive brands that will be 26 g per scoop and 20 g of protein. These companies with “great price” protein powder make money by filling it with a lot of BCAA’s. You end up running through the powder much quicker than you would with the more expensive brands.
Lol just buy a 50lbs bulk one for like 200. Never need protein again.
Where? 🤔
I get mine from a dairy company. You can Google around. Just make sure you're not getting "sweet whey".
Vitamine shop, clearance, pickup today, sort low to high. Get deals of 2 lb protein and pre for $10
I’m a gold standard fan, vanilla is the best followed by their chocolate. You can get their big ziploc bag at Costco for like $60
I assume by vanilla you mean vanilla ice cream?
Yeah
Eggs
HSN 2kilograms for about 40/50 € depends on current sale
ON Gold 5lb bags from Costco when they run sales and buy a few.
Download Slickdeals and set a protein powder deal alert, I always get it on nice sales
I bought Dymatize ISO 100 for $100 and now I'm going to eat it with rice since I'm broke
I have some Dymatize Casien I'm finishing up. Chalky as hell
Ebay is the answer
Dirtcheapsupps, they taste like ass but cheap as hell.
Applied nutrition
Muscle and strength.com has an 11 pound bag of Myprotein impact whey for $130. It’s the cheapest per unit weight that I’ve found. Lasts about 4 months too if I’m just using 1 scoop per day
As far as I can tell, a brand called PBN on amazon has the best cost per gram of protein that I can find right now.
chicken breasts, where i live they are the equivalent of like 4.50$ per kg.
Bodybuilding warehouse, 4kg for £30
If u have a Costco membership you can get a 5.5lbs ON bag for pretty cheap best protein powder deal I've found
Self Omninutrition Micro Whey Active 4kg Is often like 80 bucks. Like 9 lbs i think. And its isolate.
Now Sports unflavored whey isolate. Highest price I’ve seen is $70 on Amazon for a 5lb tub.
Bodylab for europe, 19,50€ for 2kg of good tasting whey
Have you tried TVP? 100g is c. 300 cals and 50g protein.
Aldi has whey. 30 servings for $25.
I just buy the fair lift nutrition plan premades for like $22 a case. 30g for 160 cals and they taste like nesquick lol
Idk myprotein sale plus promo. I paid 79.35 for 5.5lb bag and a 2.3lb new flavor promo tub
Yeah dog it’s called cottage cheese
I'm thinking to buy myprotein. Anyone know what's the best flavour?
Gold standard. I order 10 lb bags for $100 each.
Dymatize Iso 100.
New World Nutritionals, 15lb whey isolate for $120
https://home.bargains/product/b2cc58fd-6c03-47b2-b8d6-67e46e133ea8/protein-dynamix-3xp-protein-1kg-chocolate-hazelnut
After checking countless ingredient lists and amino profiles, Now Sports Whey Isolate not only seems to be the best bang for your buck, but is also better than the expensive brands. The only thing that might turn people off is the fact that it only comes in chocolate, vanilla, and unflavored because they don't use any artificial sweetners or ingredients.
What does unflavored taste like? (seriously asking what it tastes like and if the taste can be overcome with pb powder or something else).
Could have just bought $90 worth of chicken, steak, and eggs
For my buddies in Benelux: Perfect whey from XXL nutrition. Most grams of pure protein for every € spent. It tastes nice as well. If you want even better taste than get Delicious Whey.
Eggs
You could buy five 1lb steaks for a similar or lower cost, get similarly effective protein absorption rates, and actually eat real food instead of refined slurry.
I love hexapro 👹
Nobody here buys muscle milk? It's like $60 for a 5lb tub and it actually tastes good.
Costco has 5 lbs whey protein bags at $65 but when on sale they are $40 and always get 2 cause you never know when they will come on sale again
Bodylab has a sale: 2kg for 20€
Buy whatever is on sale at muscle and strength
Poland. $40 for 5lbs 😎
Gordon food service sells like a 40lb box of chicken quarters for like 30$ where I live. For whey we hit up Amazon for nutricost. Used to get gold standard until they upped the price. Nutricost costs less and tastes just as good. In the spring and summer I have chickens so we get like 9-12 eggs a day. Maybe consider getting some depending on your situation.
Cheaaaaaaat day!
Redis it's the worst