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Protein per Pound

Supermarket foods ranked by what a gram of protein costs, and high-protein recipes to cook with them. Every food and every recipe is a file on GitHub, added by pull request.

Protein price table

54 foods from UK supermarkets. The cheapest protein right now:

  1. 1Red Split Lentils (Laila)Amazon£0.58 / 100 g
  2. 2Scottish Porridge OatsAldi£0.89 / 100 g
  3. 3Chickpeas (Laila)Amazon£0.89 / 100 g
  4. 4Green Lentils (Laila)Amazon£1.15 / 100 g
  5. 5Frozen Everyday Essentials Chicken Breast FilletAldi£1.36 / 100 g

Add to it

Nothing here is edited on the site. Open a pull request and it goes live once merged. A check runs on every pull request and tells you if a row or a recipe breaks the format.

A food

Add a row to data/protein-sources.csv with the shelf price, package size and protein per 100 g from the label.

How to add a food

A recipe

Add recipes/your-recipe.md with ingredients and total macros, steps as a numbered list, and a photo next to it.

How to add a recipe