UsenetID wrote:
"em" wrote in message ...

Eric's comment made me want to bring up the subject of doing low-carb on a
budget:

"Eric" wrote i

We're talking at least six dollars a
day if you try to eat 2000 calories in meat and fish with some level
of variety. That adds up to some serious bread, doesn't it?

Rather than blather, I thought I'd just open up the topic to see what
everyone has to say.


Eric appears fixated on the all meat approach to Atkins and low carb.

Beef and pork average around 400 to 600 Cals per 6 ounce serving, so the
2000 Calorie intake would require 30 to 20 ounces of beef/pork or call
it roughly 1.5 pounds of meat per day.

Fattier cuts of meat would reduce the required daily poundage by 20 to
40%. Vegetable oil fats are a pretty cheap form of calories, also.

The price range of this much meat can range from $2 / lb to $10 / lb so
this could be $3.00 / day to $15.00 per day.

The basic answer on expense as raised by Eric is "it depends".

I tend to now ignore much of what is claimed about reasons to support
oddish forms of low carb diets.