• HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Hey, @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe , this is not a great way of showing this, because there’s no real comparison between the different things listed. For instance, an average egg is about 6g of protein, which means that it’s $.035/g. A single 5oz can of tuna will have about 22g of protein, which works out to about $.045/g. One pound of uncooked, boneless, skinless chicken breast will have about 105g of protein, which is around $.048/g. And so on, and so forth.

    I also dispute your pricing models. In my area, boneless, skinless chicken breast is typically around $3/#, which brings it down to $.029/g. Ground beef is both more and less expensive, depending on fat content; 80/20 (20% fat) runs around $5.20/#, while 94/4 runs $8.50/# (…and doesn’t taste very good by itself, unless you prefer your hamburders dryer than Ben Shapiro’s wife). That ultra-lean ground beef has 96g/#, which brings it to $.089/g, while the delicious 80/20 only has 40g/#, bringing the price up to a steep $.13/g, almost 5x more expensive per gram than B/S chicken breasts.

    If you don’t care about taste, TVP can be had in bulk for cheap, and unflavored whey protein can also be bought in bulk.

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      9 months ago

      Not sure I’ve ever seen the pound sign (lovingly called the “hash tag” by today’s youth) actually used to denote the unit of measure. I like the cut of your jib

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        9 months ago

        Nah, I eat a lot of beans. I just didn’t want to go through everything. Plus, you do get a lot of carbs from beans, which can make dialing macros in a bit challenging.

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      9 months ago

      It’s just a meme, but I take your point. Since I can’t do all of the math myself, threads where folks like you compare prices of foods at stores/restaurants to home cooking, prices of ingredients, etc. with sources is, of course, highly encouraged.

      And to be clear, I’m not saying that to be lazy; I genuinely can’t tabulate everything on my own though I am tabulating a lot of the prices for things I happen to know about and can thus throw in to the giant soup pot of knowledge, as it were. There’s gonna be stuff I forget and get wrong. It’s just part of being human.