Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

[pstansel]

http://www.forbes.com/business/2006/...0830diets.html

[Sweet_Sadie]

Total BS!

I personally think it cheaper if you cook your own food and do not by buy crapfood ....crap is expensive as helll in the short and long run....

ok let's look at this

five cheeseburgers for $5 isn't that how that crap is advertised

or a mixed grean salad with roasted chicken and guacamole? for $5 for four people ....please

Or wait how much is a bag of chips and a soda? I bet I can feed four on what that costs!!!

[choeve]

Don't know where they shop but I can feed my entire family of 3 and my 3 dogs if I shop right on that $85 dollars a week they say people spend on just one person on a diet. Meat, veggies, cheese and eggs for three meals a day definitly does not cost as much as trying to buy a prepared meal like Healthy Choice for even one meal per day cost me when I was doing low fat.

ok how much is a box of cereal???? compared to fresh veggies fruit eggs and cheese???

[sadie147]

Originally Posted by Heidi3

ok how much is a box of cereal???? compared to fresh veggies fruit eggs and cheese???

heh...good point. I don't know down there in the US, but a box of any popular sugar riddled kids cereal up here can run $5 or $6 a box when not on sale. and rarely do the fruity pebbles and count choculas go on major sale. usually it's the allbran and special K that the kids won't eat

[not2late]

Originally Posted by Heidi3

I personally think it cheaper if you cook your own food and do not by buy crapfood ....crap is expensive as helll in the short and long run....

I completely agree.

The initial purchase might be higher, but you'll be able to feed more people, more often. For example, a 4 pound '7 bone' chuck roast can be eaten for 3 or 4 meals: 1 pound sliced for stir fry, 1 pound cubed for stew, 1 pound sliced for "breakfast" steaks, 1 pound sliced for beef stroganoff. Since the meals will include vegetables, these amounts will give roughly four 1/4 pound (4 oz or 110 g) portions of meat for 4 people---which is a substantial amount of food.

So yes, a 4 pound chuck roast at $2.99 a pound is $11.95, but you'll get 4 meals at $2.98 each for the meat alone. If that meal serves 4 people, than that's only 75 cents worth of meat per person!!!!

[Lisa M]

I'd like to know where they do their shopping and what kind of foods they think Atkins diet followers buy? They must be adding up the prepackaged foods they are roped into believing Atkins' Dieters (who are following the 2002 version) are buying.

At a $300 a month budget I can feed my family and the dog and still have money left over to go out to dinner and enjoy a health Low Carb meal.

One thing for sure about this way of eating...I learned how to cook all over again to save money.