Butchers don’t want you to know this but kidney beans beat cow on protein content gram for gram. They’re also cheaper and more ethical.
Meat is a luxury good, in both the financial and moral sense.
Making ends meat: Australians can save up to $20 a kg [on meat] by changing where they shop
Submitted 4 months ago by Baku@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
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naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
stepchook@mastodon.au 4 months ago
@naevaTheRat @Baku what is the best kidney bean burger pattie recipe?
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Oooh that’s a tricky one. May as well ask what’s the best curry!
I actually favour tvp (don’t buy in colesworth, more than 8 bucks a kilo is criminal extortion, get it in 10 kg bags online) or black bean burgers.
Try these:
Also colesworth/aldis etc will extort you on the price of lentils/legumes/pulses. I’ve seen dried beans costing as much as 10 bucks a kilo lmfao. Check out Indian and chinese catering grocers or bulk sellers online (shipping varies, keep that on mind). Pre recession my price was 2 bucks a kilo for most of my bulk protein sources, now 4 to 8 but that’s capitalism baby.
Kayel@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Ritzy shit, I’m cooking up dried beans at 2 $/kg
guillem@aussie.zone 4 months ago
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Probs worth comparing kJ energy too as raw mass isn’t the whole picture. Like trying to get your rdi from peanuts will be interesting…
It is also worth some thoughts about complete protein combos and digestibility but unless you are literally trying to avoid starvation and accidentally just eat lentils and rice for all your meals you will be fine.
In general, unless you’re a professional athlete a budget diet that meets your needs will look something like oat or baked bean breakfast (BBs you’ll want some extra energy from bread or whatever), leftovers from last night for lunch, a dinner rotating through beans and lentils. Daal, curries, stews and so on. Random reasonal veg and some greens to get variety. Greens can be pricey, but if you have a garden or a patch of ground you know isn’t poisoned warrigal greens grow like a weed, dandelion greens taste pretty nice, and so does milk thistle actually! just learn to ID them and never pick from roadside.
That’s how I’ve avoided starvation while also eating well in the past.
Kayel@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I feel like kj would stray into an overly technical area. Cool, yeah, but probably not what people worry about.
A sat fat / cholesterol graph might be interesting as well.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Certainly interesting, but I feel like the X-axis needs to somehow account for all the valuable qualities of the food. If we’re wanting to compare meats and meat alternatives, that means at least protein, iron, and energy, not just protein.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Eh iron isn’t very meaningfull. Most beans and lentils and stuff are pretty rich in it. Anemia is usually caused by bleeding or iron malabsorption over diet. Stuff like eating cheese with meals inhibits iron absorption because of calcium amounts.
kJ are but mostly because meats and seeds are very fatty which for everyone not starving makes them even worse sources.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 4 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Starting with lamb cutlets, the cheapest was Famous Halal Quality Meat & Groceries, where they cost $19.99 a kg.
As part of our search, we also purchased four T-bone steaks (Famous Halal Quality Meat & Groceries does not carry them).
Chicken breast bucked the trend by coming in at least 50 cents cheaper at the supermarkets – costing $14 a kg at both Woolworths and Coles.
A Woolworths spokesperson said it was “difficult to make a like-for-like” comparison between “supermarkets and meat vendors who sell through public marketplaces like the Queen Victoria Market and have different business models and customer offerings”.
“The products sold across retailers can be sourced differently – Woolworths purchases premium cattle and lamb to a very tight quality specification, with its beef being independently certified through the Meat Standards Australia program.
Earlier this year, Guardian Australia found that buying in bulk from Sydney’s fruit and vegetable market cost barely 30% of supermarket prices.
The original article contains 1,032 words, the summary contains 157 words. Saved 85%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Taleya@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Christ the fact the dude couldn’t just leave it at ‘no shit dedicated butchers sell meat at cheaper prices’ but had to paragraph anout their quality pisses me off sdm. Cram your sales pitch up your arse
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Theirs may be better. And theirs may be cheaper. But we pay cerrifiers to make sure our quality meets the strictest standards of acceptable for human consumption.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Jesus, $14 per kg for chichen breast? I can get it for $2.50 a lbs.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I’m not a big meat eater but shopping at the nearby wholesale butcher has definitely saved me money and the quality is way better. I like the variety too - there are a lot of cheap offcuts that you would never see in a supermarket.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Just wait till u find out that food is on average 30% cheaper at aldi in general. Did u know that if u write a bot that pulls all the data from the online stores for woolies/coles/aldi and upload that data in a big comparison table to rhw intent then woolies will send u a cease and desist.
Nath@aussie.zone 4 months ago
That’s interesting, is their issue that you scraped their data? If so, then fair enough - that’s technically their intellectual property.
If you have people going into stores and getting the prices, I don’t believe they’d have a legal leg to stand on.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 months ago
No it’s not. You can’t copyright a fact, only its presentation. There might be some laws that they could legitimately use to stop you doing this, but it wouldn’t be copyright.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Allegedly they where complaining about improper use of their api. Btw did u know that their api is very easy to reverse engineer and they issue a new api key as a cookie every time u visit the consumer website.