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<blockquote data-quote="uart" data-source="post: 892054" data-attributes="member: 41696"><p>This is a good question. For me personally I find that <em>my</em> LCHF is significantly more costly than my previous diet. To be honest I'd estimate that I spend about $40 to $50 (aust) more per week on vegetables and nuts and diary, and save maybe $5 on the pasta and rice (and occasionally bread) that I'm now not consuming. There is a big price asymmetry between those two types of items!</p><p></p><p>To a large extent I think that it does depend on what your previous (pre LCHF) diet was like. Some people I have spoken with swear that their LCHF costs them no more money, or even that it saves them a little bit. I notice however that these people tended to have previous diets that included a lot more processed foods (prepacked and frozen meals, cake and biscuits etc) than I was using, which obviously gives them greater savings when excluded. In my case though, I was on a fairly plain diet where I had long ago cut out most of those processed foods, but was still using the cheap bulk staples like pasta and rice as a significant part of my diet. So for me personally, I found the savings very little and the extra expenses relatively high.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="uart, post: 892054, member: 41696"] This is a good question. For me personally I find that [I]my[/I] LCHF is significantly more costly than my previous diet. To be honest I'd estimate that I spend about $40 to $50 (aust) more per week on vegetables and nuts and diary, and save maybe $5 on the pasta and rice (and occasionally bread) that I'm now not consuming. There is a big price asymmetry between those two types of items! To a large extent I think that it does depend on what your previous (pre LCHF) diet was like. Some people I have spoken with swear that their LCHF costs them no more money, or even that it saves them a little bit. I notice however that these people tended to have previous diets that included a lot more processed foods (prepacked and frozen meals, cake and biscuits etc) than I was using, which obviously gives them greater savings when excluded. In my case though, I was on a fairly plain diet where I had long ago cut out most of those processed foods, but was still using the cheap bulk staples like pasta and rice as a significant part of my diet. So for me personally, I found the savings very little and the extra expenses relatively high. [/QUOTE]
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