Pinching Pennies? You can still Pound Protein...
3/4 Americans are living paycheck to paycheck... Here's some guidance to get the biggest bang for your buck
I read this excerpt the other day from Forbes and honestly, I was pretty blown away.
Working with the general public, you start to get a feel of where people’s finances are at. And its not looking pretty. Even just listening to conversations around the grocery store, you can hear the concern over prices of this and that. Parents telling their kids no to more than they normally would. It can be a difficult time for many.
I want to say that I hear you, I see you, and I understand the struggle.
We’ve talked before about how beneficial eating a High Protein Diet can be for your overall health and well-being.
From improved body composition to the feeling of satiety, and the improved mental clarity it can help provide. A high-protein diet should be a staple in your life.
But eating a high-protein diet has the potential to put your grocery bill on the fast track to unaffordable if you are just shopping willy-nilly.
A very common immediate rebuttal is, “Eating High Protein is too dang expensive”
So I got curious…
What is the most cost-effective way to eat a high-protein diet?
I spent ~4 hours the other week creating this table below.
I was curious to see the differences between cities with the climbing grocery prices in America.
So I online shopped at the most expensive city (Honolulu, HI) and the least expensive city (Cheyenne, WY) for groceries.
Taking the lowest cost of each protein source at the most popular grocery stores in their respective states.
The stores were Foodland (HI) and Albertsons (WY).
I found the lowest cost of each of the major protein sources I would normally recommend to my clients.
I found the National Average* by averaging the two prices together.
I used MyFitnessPal to calculate grams of protein per protein source.
Then, I calculated a rough cost per gram of protein.
Here’s the table from what I found…
Some of these findings shocked me. Others made complete sense.
What are some of your thoughts after seeing this chart?