Help with a cost efficient diet?

[amck25]

this question is probably far to broad and open, but i just want some advice for a cost efficient daily diet.

Im a student so i dont exactly have the money to be buying fish and chicken for dinner everynight...and i cant afford to head to back to the gym just yet, so i thought id try focus more on the diet.

can anyone give me some sort of basic daily diet?

Im 6ft1, 84kgs... and obviously want to lose some stomach fat but not lose too much muscle.

Thanks in advance

[Phedder]

Oats, eggs, rice, peanut butter, bread, mince, mixed veges, cottage cheese, any meat on special, potatoes, protein powder, canned tuna or salmon. All reasonably cheap, filling, and you can make a decent diet based around those foods.

Sample day;

Breakfast - 1cup of oats and 4-5 scrambled eggs. Could skip the oats and have the eggs on toast if you like, but I find oats much more filling.

Lunch - Mince stir fry with mixed veges on some rice - flavoured how you wish

Dinner - A few frozen chicken pieces (always cheap) with some mixed veges and roast potatoes

Dessert - 1TB peanut butter, 2TB cottage cheese and some protein powder for flavouring all mixed together.

Very quick and very basic, quite cheap.

You'll find it a lot easier to hold onto your muscle if you can keep working out, if not at the gym you can just do bodyweight circuits 3-4 times a week or something. Chin ups, dips, push ups, squat jumps, lunges, sprints. You can get buckets/sacks and fill them with sand or something and press them over head, hug while squatting etc. Get inventive!

[samuelNZ]

Yus! Was hoping someone would make a thread like this! Just what I need.

Great post Phed. :nod:

[Phedder]

Yus! Was hoping someone would make a thread like this! Just what I need.

Great post Phed. :nod:

You know you can make threads too I managed to gain about 15kg last year as a student eating mostly those foods, If I can afford to put on weight eating them I'm sure someone else can afford to lose weight eating less of them :pfft: Just realised I forgot Tuna/salmon though! :doh:

[Ronin]

Mince, mince and more mince. There's no end of things you can do with it, and it's cheap as. Especially if you time it right each day and buy the stuff they've just marked down cos they didn't sell it the previous day. Learn your herbs/spices/sauces and you can live on the stuff forever. And if you're worried about the fat content, wash it.

[Darkmanx]

Yup, mince is the way to go and the protein content in mince is almost up to par with lean cut beef. I must admit i use to buy my mince from countdown but the fat in it was horrible so opted to go and get it at my local butcher and i have to say that there is virtually no fat in their mince and they sell it 1.5kg packages for $10 bucks.

[mike27]

yeah ive been on the mince latley too

buying1-2kg and cook it all up to have with brown rice

tins of tuna are 1.19 at the mo. the large tin. pams

[jimjim83]

Yus! Was hoping someone would make a thread like this! Just what I need.

Great post Phed. :nod:

You know you can make threads too I managed to gain about 15kg last year as a student eating mostly those foods, If I can afford to put on weight eating them I'm sure someone else can afford to lose weight eating less of them :pfft: Just realised I forgot Tuna/salmon though! :doh:

15kg? what 5 muscle and 10 fat.

[Phedder]

Yus! Was hoping someone would make a thread like this! Just what I need.

Great post Phed. :nod:

You know you can make threads too I managed to gain about 15kg last year as a student eating mostly those foods, If I can afford to put on weight eating them I'm sure someone else can afford to lose weight eating less of them :pfft: Just realised I forgot Tuna/salmon though! :doh:

15kg? what 5 muscle and 10 fat.

Closer to 10 muscle and 5 fat I'd say. Some of the muscle gained was more of a regain as I had lost a bit over last summer, but started last Feb at 78kgs, got up to 93kgs around oct/nov and now down to 88kgs and a tad leaner than I was previously at 78kgs.