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Can anyone recommend a good budget diet?
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Fish, Chicken, Tuna, Red meat, Potatoes, Rice, Vegtables, Eggs, Pasta are all cheap
M18
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Carb sources like potatoes, rice and pasta are relatively very cheap compared to protein. If you are looking for cheap protein but detest tuna, try purchasing Optimum Nutrition's 10lb bag of whey for $50, can't beat the price. For protein sources besides supplements try skim milk, and beans, which you can put in chili with some lean ground meat for an excellent meal.
Willyumyum
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gorth97 said:Eat lots of tuna. Tuna is about $0.60 a can, and each can has 32.5g protien.
Egg whites are good too. 6 Egg whites and 2 slices of toast will give you maybe 30g protien.
Canned Tuna can contain a some mercury, so it's not in your best health interests to be packing that shit it. I'd say 2 cans of canned tuna, max, daily...
YUM
ColumboWeiser
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listen to Mustang...that is as cheap as you can get...tuna esspecially...It starts getting expencive when you start buying protein powders and other supps.
if you cannot afford this, get another job!
j/k
if you cannot afford this, get another job!
j/ktuna and bbq sauce
anyone ever tried this besides me? (its only 44 cents here) It helps to take away the fish flaovr and makes it sort of takste like pork bbq....Just a thought, i know it will add sugar and sodium, but if all your concerned about is money then it might not matter to you. You could also try some no sugar salad dressing....As you can tell, I get tired of the taste of tuna as well. Hope this helps anyone out who doesnt like tuna either.
anyone ever tried this besides me? (its only 44 cents here) It helps to take away the fish flaovr and makes it sort of takste like pork bbq....Just a thought, i know it will add sugar and sodium, but if all your concerned about is money then it might not matter to you. You could also try some no sugar salad dressing....As you can tell, I get tired of the taste of tuna as well. Hope this helps anyone out who doesnt like tuna either.
hard
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gorth97 said:Eat lots of tuna. Tuna is about $0.60 a can, and each can has 32.5g protien.
Egg whites are good too. 6 Egg whites and 2 slices of toast will give you maybe 30g protien.
Add to this the darkest heaviest damn bread that you can find for lots of vits and complex carbos. Also add sunflower oil to your shakes for extra cals if you are bulking ( i use flax oil but it costs way more. )
ColumboWeiser
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ya, use some onions, celery, or other veggies in it...use tabasco sause to spice it up...I have used diet coke....yum...yum...my personal favorite...Mix it in low fat or fat free salad dressing...use your imagination...I have put it in mac and cheese, tuna helper, unless you are contest dieting I do not see the reason to cut carbs too low....you can also make blacken tuna steaks, by adding brad crumbs, onions to the tuna, patty it, fry it on stove top with pam cooking spray, and eat...
hmmm.. could you mix in bread crumbs and onions then put it on a grill? like say a foreman type grill? also has anyone ever bought tuna patties from the store? do they make this? or does it come in bigger cuts so that you could grill it. what about using the low fat mayo and relish with it? would that still be healthy enough to justify since it really doesn't add a lot of carbs?
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Juststartingout
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Try the better tuna
I know it's more expensive (3x the price), but the solid white tuna is much better than the chunk light. It's firmer and much less fishy. I still think it's a cheap meal.
To make it even better, I mix it with Stop & Shop brand all-natural medium salsa. It adds a nice, spicy flavor, moistens the chunks and pretty much kills any fishiness. On some whole-grain bread, it works out great.
Bumble Bee sells it in a 12oz can so you don't have to be opening small tins all day. I think I pay $2.49 ea. (USD) for them.
I know it's more expensive (3x the price), but the solid white tuna is much better than the chunk light. It's firmer and much less fishy. I still think it's a cheap meal.
To make it even better, I mix it with Stop & Shop brand all-natural medium salsa. It adds a nice, spicy flavor, moistens the chunks and pretty much kills any fishiness. On some whole-grain bread, it works out great.
Bumble Bee sells it in a 12oz can so you don't have to be opening small tins all day. I think I pay $2.49 ea. (USD) for them.
I don't have the time nor the desire to go through the newspaper clipping coupons, but I do usually skim through local grocery store flyers that come in the mail. Usually there is a sale on some particular meat that I like, and then I stock up. I can usually get ground beef for $.99/lb., leaner hamburger meats for $1.89/lb., chicken and turkey breasts for $1.99/lb., beef sirloin steaks for $2.50/lb., salmon steaks for $2.99/lb. along with other treats (I love crab legs). Because as with all expenses, the cost of groceries varies from one city/region to another, you will have to determine what would be considered good sale prices on meats for your area. And tuna's always cheap. To avoid the excess saturated fat and cholesterol, I like to use Light Miracle Whip rather than regular mayo in my tuna salad. Also, creamed tuna is good. That is tuna cooked in a pan on the stove with milk and oil (Canola oil is a good choice; has a lot of GOOD fats). I make meal replacement shakes with peanut butter or canola oil. And at proteinfactory.com, the various types of high quality protein powders I like to use sell for between just over $4/lb. to just over $8/lb. Definately a bargain in my opinion. And when you're grocery shopping, try the generic versions at least once. Sometimes the off brand (or store brand) is manufactured by a name brand and just given a different label. Even when that's not the case, I have found many grocery products in which the generic version is as good tasting as the name brand version.
Just my $.02. Hope I was of some help.
Just my $.02. Hope I was of some help.
Richard Gear
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I drink 7 Myoplex shakes a day, I haven't chewed food in 5 months and the last time was only because it was my neices' Christening party and they had Stuffed shells and Sausage&Peppers (My favorite). I know it sounds crazy, and I miss the chewing sensation, but you gotta do it brother. That's my opinion.
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MadCow1
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I think only 1 guy noticed that the author stated he hates tuna in an initial response about 4 posts from the very top. I hazard that tuna makes people unobservant.
Anyway - ground beef/turkey and eggs got me through college.
1) Throw either ground beef or turkey in a pan and season well.
2) Break up the chunks and cook until done while draining grease as it forms (if you can't afford the leaner stuff).
3) Crack a few eggs over it and mix together in pan with burner still on.
Tastes pretty damn good but I ate it for years and can hardly look at it now.
Anyway - ground beef/turkey and eggs got me through college.
1) Throw either ground beef or turkey in a pan and season well.
2) Break up the chunks and cook until done while draining grease as it forms (if you can't afford the leaner stuff).
3) Crack a few eggs over it and mix together in pan with burner still on.
Tastes pretty damn good but I ate it for years and can hardly look at it now.
get your self a protein powder....now your ready
meal 1... protein powder, 2 raw eggs, cup of oatmeal, and banana
meal 2...6 whole eggs cup of rice(wake up people..stop throwing the yolks out...
meal 3.... same as meal 1,,less the banana
meal 4...chicken breast rice and green veggi
meal 5..same as meal 3
meal 6..only protein powder
meal 7....chicken breast and broccli
meal 8..before bed..only protein powder
all this would be less than $8
this is my pre contest diet more or less
meal 1... protein powder, 2 raw eggs, cup of oatmeal, and banana
meal 2...6 whole eggs cup of rice(wake up people..stop throwing the yolks out...
meal 3.... same as meal 1,,less the banana
meal 4...chicken breast rice and green veggi
meal 5..same as meal 3
meal 6..only protein powder
meal 7....chicken breast and broccli
meal 8..before bed..only protein powder
all this would be less than $8
this is my pre contest diet more or less
Adaptek
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animal B said:
I got a couple questions:
1) raw eggs? What about salmonella (sp?) I heard they have some new eggs now that they radiate and kill salmonella to avoid poisoning. I cant get those where I live, so what are the dangers?
2) I thought the yokes were bad for you. If you are trying to cut up, should you still eat yokes?
answering the questions on raw eggs and yolks...
the raw egg and salmonella...impossible!!!!...if you wash the shell first...the egg is a sterile unit..if there is slamonella bac. it is on the shell...just wash the shell good..
the yolk....is 80 % monounsaturated fat(good fat that you need to cut up)..contains more protein then the whites..has cholesterol, a precursor to your bodies testosterone as well as other hormones and vitamins...if your throwing out the yolks...your uneducated on nutrition and should get updated..Im one of the most ripped people on this board and never threw 1 yolk away....you need to fat to loose fat...better is mono than saturated...DR. Hal K. DC, CCN, DABCN
the raw egg and salmonella...impossible!!!!...if you wash the shell first...the egg is a sterile unit..if there is slamonella bac. it is on the shell...just wash the shell good..
the yolk....is 80 % monounsaturated fat(good fat that you need to cut up)..contains more protein then the whites..has cholesterol, a precursor to your bodies testosterone as well as other hormones and vitamins...if your throwing out the yolks...your uneducated on nutrition and should get updated..Im one of the most ripped people on this board and never threw 1 yolk away....you need to fat to loose fat...better is mono than saturated...DR. Hal K. DC, CCN, DABCN
Adaptek
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animal B said:
Bro.. I am going on your contest diet!!!! You tha man!! Plus I'm gonna start eating raw eggs..... YUMMY!!!
I just need some more details though. For instance:
In meal 2 do you cook the eggs, If so.. how?
How do you prepare your chicken breasts?
What protein powder do u use?
Thanks in advance.
