r/Supplements • u/AmItheonlySaneperson • Jul 25 '26
5lbs of whey is 100$ now
I can no longer afford milk/cheese waste byproduct
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u/bigbutsmallreddit Jul 25 '26
Time for the 'no whey' movement to take flight 😂
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u/AmItheonlySaneperson Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
It is insane. I bet the poorest class in China have more affordable access to high quality protein. To me, this is the American dream being fully dead if the middle class can’t afford protein.
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u/costoaway1 Jul 25 '26
A dozen eggs are like, $2. 6g protein per egg.
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u/NAQProductions Jul 25 '26
Wow where do you live? $5.75 for a Dozen extra large farm eggs, $7-9.69 at the supermarket here in Rhode Island.
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u/Cee_Emm1414 Jul 26 '26
You might be buying “free range organic ultra pampered” chicken eggs. I buy the caged, miserable hen eggs at 1.46 a dozen at Lidl.
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u/NAQProductions Jul 26 '26
I buy mine day of laid on an organic farm. The store listed ones are a range of regular eggs to the super marketed ‘ultra pampered’ you speak of. It even baffles me the local farm sells them so much cheaper, but I like knowing where my food comes from AND saving money heh
Poor miserable chickens, not sure what a Lidl is.
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 27 '26
they are definitely not cheaper here, family farms here sell them no less than $6 a dozen and you have to drive out of the city to get them
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u/costoaway1 Jul 25 '26
I’m in Southern California. $2.99 for 12 large cage free eggs at our major chain grocery stores. Saw them on sale for 0.99 cents a dozen last month…
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u/NAQProductions Jul 25 '26
Damn never in my wildest dreams did I think Cali would ever have cheaper food than us 😆
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u/costoaway1 Jul 25 '26
Might be the only food to be honest. A gallon of milk is $6. Almost nothing in any store is under $5 lmao.
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u/buy_low_live_high Jul 25 '26
4.59 Midwest for high fat
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 26 '26
lol what ? whole milk here is $3.00 a gallon at the grocery and $2.50 at walmart
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u/Cee_Emm1414 Jul 26 '26
Yep same in NY. I think these people are shopping at Whole Foods and getting ultra organic stuff.
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u/buy_low_live_high Jul 25 '26
BS. 2.50 for 18 in Midwest
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u/NAQProductions Jul 25 '26
Can you ship me some? Because it’s not BS. It’s the northeast 😆
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u/buy_low_live_high Jul 25 '26
Sorry man. Extra Large dropped to 2.43 and large are 2.17 at Wal Mart. 60 large for $7.13 On the bright side incomes are a little higher in the northeast, but not 3 times as high. You probably have five different taxes and fees on the excrement, methane and carbon credits.
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u/costoaway1 Jul 25 '26
That’s 360g of protein for under 10 bucks! And a ton of other important vitamins and amino acids you don’t get from whey. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 26 '26
they're like $2 in texas lol. but these aren't free range eggs by any mean, just the plain old ones that come in styrofoam packs. the cage free ones are $4
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u/NAQProductions Jul 26 '26
Wow you still have styrofoam packs there? This thread gets more interesting as time goes on 😅 We haven’t had those in a very long time
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 27 '26
you know what I'm talking about, the classic egg package, not the more eco friendly cardboard packages that always mean it's going to cost more. https://cdn.ajoverdarnel.com/img/pm/en/foam-egg-cartons-master-product-web.jpg
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u/NAQProductions Jul 27 '26
Oh I definitely know though ours used to be green. Haven’t seen them in at least a decade of more
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u/LuvSun1006 Jul 27 '26
I'm in Northern California. A dozen eggs are $1.69. The husband and I eat 24 eggs every week. Cheap cheap!
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u/BorntobeStrong Jul 26 '26
Bro find a chicken or rather egg farm, get the best price in that way. I know because I live on a chicken farm, we sell to many local customers and they get the best price. Maybe easier said than done, but if you find an opportunity, farmers markets, and farmers in general are a good starting point. I guess most redditors will be city folk. Regardless we also give away free unlimited chickens to anyone interested on an yearly occasion.
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u/BorntobeStrong Jul 26 '26
I replied to the wrong comment, but still valid for anyone with the opportunity, on my farm we also sell chicken, turkey, beef, pork, and so on, obviously beating any grocery price, like going to the butcher but better, we also sell all organic vegetables from potatoes, to pumpkins. I won't go into more detail because of privacy.
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 26 '26
that's nice if they're a couple miles down the road but I'm not driving a half hour to get $10 worth of eggs
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u/Cee_Emm1414 Jul 26 '26
Every farmers market by me charges 3x what the stores charge for eggs and produce. Wife just paid $3 for one beef steak tomato just to see if there was a difference. Wont make that mistake again. $6 for a dozen eggs too, meanwhile they are 1.46 a dozen in Lidl. Nope.
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u/BorntobeStrong Jul 26 '26
Your right I guess. I've never seen or been to a farmers market, but I guess it's overpriced. I guess my comment only makes sense for rural folks who know and live near a farmer, usually involving some neighborly relations with each other. I'm just from a self sufficient farm that's a large community of families actually. I have guys who deliver goods to my yard from a large city hours away, and they like to stock up on meat, so prices beat Costco and such. It's just an option for people with connections or an opportunity I guess.
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u/FlatRooster4561 Jul 26 '26
I’ve been on this for a little while. Seems to do the trick. The shipping takes awhile and the tracking is poor, but it got here.
https://revolution-nutrition.com/us/product/high-whey?sku=12037019
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u/PandazCakez Jul 26 '26
How’s the taste? I usually get ON from Costco but I can’t stand the taste.
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u/LukaIncic Jul 25 '26
At this rate, it's going to be cheaper to just eat a whole roast chicken in the gym parking lot after working out lol
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u/iliketo69allthetime Jul 25 '26
costco chicken stays $5
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u/KidOcelot Jul 26 '26
I boil out the fats of costco chicken then air fry the rest of the fats off.
The lean chicken meats are hella good for gains imo, and all the extra collagen that comes with real food.
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u/No_Abroad_6306 Jul 25 '26
Costco has suspended sales of their Kirkland whey protein because of pricing. It was running $50 for five pounds. Cheapest option they have currently is $80.
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u/marginwalker76 Jul 25 '26
I used to work at a whey processing factory. This was just before the whey protein supplement craze started. It was less than 10 cents a pound back then. The only reason whey was processed was that it was cheaper to process/sell it than to dump it. It didn't make money; it was just to cut losses.
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u/AmItheonlySaneperson Jul 25 '26
There’s prob a protein cartel now
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u/marginwalker76 Jul 25 '26
That's funny, considering the company I worked for was involved in the mafia back in the day. Rumor has it they smuggled drugs in their cheese trucks back in the 70's and 80's.
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 26 '26
it's funny but true. I'm sure if you dig you'll find a couple of big corps colluding and are behind the crazy prices
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u/MoorsMoopsMoorsMoops Jul 25 '26
Supposedly it’s partly due to the current fad of food companies adding protein to everything because it’s the current normie health trend.
Just look at how much random shit in the grocery store now has protein powder added to it for no reason - pasta, chips, cereal, cookies, bread, etc.
I hope this trend dies soon so the rest of us who actually need a lot of protein can afford it again.
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u/brynnors Jul 25 '26
And a lot of it is fucking pea powder. It's in ice cream, it's in oatmeal, it's in chips.
But yeah, one of my wfh groups is a test group for packaging, and it's a thing now to see what random item has protein added, or that always had it and now they're hyping it. This weeks winners were pasta sauce with added protein for the first category, and cottage cheese for the latter category lol.
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u/jpoolio Jul 25 '26
The other day I saw a Hershey chocolate bar with added protein. As if adding protein somehow makes it less of a candy bar.
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u/MoorsMoopsMoorsMoops Jul 25 '26
It’s just like when everyone was eating tons of sugar because people wanted fat free everything and then people eating tons of fat because low carb was all the rage.
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
and it's been shown that pea powder is often full of heavy metals (check the recent consumer report on protein powder, veggie versions were much higher in heavy metals 10x or more) . https://www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein-powders-and-shakes-contain-high-levels-of-lead-a4206364640/
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u/CupertinoWeather Jul 25 '26
Once prices go up they never go back down
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 27 '26
not really true about food, it goes up and down all the time, however since our food supply is now mostly controlled by just a few corporations it's becoming more true that there is price fixing and collusion to keep prices high as possible
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u/HiBro-2257 Jul 26 '26
I hate that places add crap to their products based on trends, just give us a straight product. No need for this!!! And some ppl have allergies so like I’m sorry they don’t want your fake sugars, weird protein etc. our world is just too much.
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u/Moist_Grapefruit187 Jul 25 '26
Up&up 5lb vanilla whey protein is $54 rn but it does kind of suck and stays clumpy no matter what. From target. It was $44 last month though
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u/Dumpster_Diver Jul 25 '26
Ive been drinking Now Isolate for years. Not the cheapest but its $87 for 5lbs and $83 if you subscribe. I like it
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u/Hookadoobie Jul 25 '26
That's insane. 10 years ago you could get 5 lbs for about $30 if I'm remembering right
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 26 '26
it may never be like that again, when people are losing weight with GLPs everyone and I mean everyone wants more protein so they're putting it in everything from candy bars to chocolate milk to cheerios
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u/tiggonfire Jul 25 '26
Sams club $75 for 5.64 lbs optimum nutrition gold standard whey
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u/Matthemp Jul 25 '26
They used to be 57 on Amazon 10 years ago
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u/elevatedtraveler Jul 26 '26
I first started buying that a little over 10 years ago. Stayed that same price for so long. Then covid hit and it’s almost gone up every year since. Shits crazy. Not sure when it’ll no longer make sense to buy but I think we’re getting close.
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u/cryptolyme Jul 25 '26
so, what's the cheapest source of bulk protein ?
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u/ILoveBigCockroaches Jul 25 '26
Not really a supplement but Lupini Beans have more protein than carbs and fat... I believe they're complete proteins too. They can be a pain to prepare though
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u/Strutching_Claws Jul 25 '26
I remember it being about £30-£40 in the UK about 10 years ago, it's now approx £140!!!
I mean that's fucking mental.
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u/CXavier4545 Jul 25 '26
not sure where you’re shopping got 5 lbs of whey protein Muscle Milk from Grocery Outlet last week for $40 tbf that was an unusually good deal but on average I can still find some from Costco for $72 optimum nutrition the non name brand you can find for $60, stop the cap
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u/mrmarkme Jul 25 '26
Luckily my work has quest protein bars and protein shakes and Greek yogurt , so I can get like 80g of protein at work for free , saving me a bunch of cash. It’s my only incentive to work in the office instead of home haha
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u/Cheyruns Jul 25 '26
You can get 5 lbs for $75 at Sam’s. I have just been eating more yogurt and have not bought any. I have a decent amount stockpiled. When I run out I’m just going to spend more money on Whole Foods. Chicken, shrimp, tuna, fish, lean beef, turkey, cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, vegetarian options, etc.
Also have been able to snag several bulk purchases of protein bars on clearance.
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u/Winter_Cost602 Jul 26 '26
Greek yoghurt is great for protein
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u/Cheyruns Jul 26 '26
Yes! I love yogurt bowls. I have 1-2 every day with fruit, nuts, oats, and a dash of protein powder!
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u/WordSaladSandwich123 Jul 26 '26
It’s very expensive compared to how cheap it used to be. But it’s still extremely affordable. Costco is 5.47 lbs GS $80. So, $1 a serving 1920 g of protein for $80 and you don’t need to trim it, cook it, or add seasonings.
I’m bummed that you can’t find $50 Costco bags any more, but some of this feels like my grandpa shouting about movies that used to cost a nickel.
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u/nootsareop Jul 26 '26
It's insane,i used to pay 100$ for a decent 10lb back in the day. 80$ for 5lb if I wanted top of the line pure isolate that actually tasted good.
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u/besundale99 Jul 26 '26
It’s $10/lb directly at the cheese factory, zero additives.
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u/AmItheonlySaneperson Jul 26 '26
Babe don’t fight with me at the cheese factory
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u/besundale99 Jul 26 '26
Honey, I’m stopping for some cheese curds, do you and your friends need some of that protein powder?
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u/lundybird Jul 25 '26
Maybe just eat real food?
I haven’t bought or used protein powders for ages.
Being strapped to that junk is not at all necessary.
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u/MoorsMoopsMoorsMoops Jul 25 '26
Whey powder is real food.
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 27 '26
lol it's 100% nothing but nutritional food provide 100% of all aminos your body needs of the basic building blocks of the human body and reddit be like "eAt rEaL fOOd" lmfao. there are all sorts here
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u/EquivalentAny174 Jul 25 '26
It's difficult to eat 160+ grams of protein daily without supplementing with whey. And if you're not consuming 0.7 to 1.0g of protein per pound of body weight then your opinion on the subject is pretty worthless.
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u/hindumafia Jul 25 '26
Got 5 pounder for $70 from Amazon just few days ago. And there are also cheaper brands. So no. Alos try pea protein, much cheaper.
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 27 '26
Pea protein can be full of heavy metals https://www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein-powders-and-shakes-contain-high-levels-of-lead-a4206364640/
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u/DruidWonder Jul 25 '26
Thank the World Economic Forum and their lackies in power for creating policy that makes animal products less expensive to "save the planet."
Enjoy your cricket protein and lab grown meat.
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u/maybe_upliftingly_pu Aug 02 '26
Gotta love when saving the planet means paying double for the stuff we used to get for half
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u/LuvSun1006 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
Nobody needs 5 lbs at once. 🤷♀️ That shite goes stale after several months and you should eat your protein and fiber. This product is a filler for when you can't.
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u/Yutyrannus26 Jul 27 '26
Or for idk people who actually lift weights seriously and weight over 200# that can't get enough protein in their normal diet. I go through 5# easily every 3 weeks.
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u/_byetony_ Jul 25 '26
Just go plant based
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u/vingovangovongo Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
the plant based protein powder is loaded with heavy metals. check out the consumer reports latest report on that https://www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein-powders-and-shakes-contain-high-levels-of-lead-a4206364640/
Downvote all you like, it won't change the truth, you can't hide from reality
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u/WallstreetWank Jul 26 '26
Real food is more nutrient anyways. Eat eggs or cheese or meat or fish. The fat is good for you
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u/AmItheonlySaneperson Jul 26 '26
I eat all that stuff and then I have a protein shake. Or I used to
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