Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

[pstansel]

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

[Sweet_Sadie]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

Total BS!

[Heidi3]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

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....

[Heidi3]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

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

[Heidi3]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

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

[choeve]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

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.

[Heidi3]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

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

[sadie147]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

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]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

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]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

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.

[Barbde]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

"And an Atkins lobster salad lunch recipe called for one-quarter pound of lobster tail meat ($25.99 a pound)."

Yeah, OK. How many of us eat lobster tail salad for lunch? I had tuna with celery and onion and mayo!!

[CarbaholicJoe]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

I was a little concerned with the cost of going atkins before starting, but chicken breast is always on offer some where, you can the cheaper cuts of steak and eggs are stupid cheap.

Not buying junk and pepsi is actually saving me money!

[ladyinred]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

"How many people know what orange roughy is? Give me a break," Dr. Peeke grumbles. "Give me a skinless, boneless chicken breast and call it a day."

Ummmm, it's a kind of fish, doc. Way to be adventurous.

I like another comment in there to the effect that, if there were one safe and effective way to lose weight then everyone would do it and the diet industry would be out of business. So I guess that means the old calories in vs calories out diet is either unsafe or ineffective, yes? So they are saying it's hopeless, basically. No matter. I'm not going to take weight loss advice from a doctor who's never heard of fish. lol

[not2late]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

"And an Atkins lobster salad lunch recipe called for one-quarter pound of lobster tail meat ($25.99 a pound)."

Yeah, OK. How many of us eat lobster tail salad for lunch? I had tuna with celery and onion and mayo!!

Oh every single day! I imagine that my turkey or chicken is lobster tail.

[ladyinred]

Re: Forbes: Atkins 3rd most expensive diet

But I don't like lobster tails!! Does that mean I can't do Atkins??