• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I can buy oats and flour on the cheap around here, but chickpeas and dried beans? That’s very quickly sounding like $10 a day.

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      2 months ago

      Bruh how? You can get kilograms of dried beans for $10.

      It’s more expensive for canned beans but for $10 are you eating 5 cans of organic beans a day?

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      2 months ago

      Maybe chickpeas are expensive where you live, or maybe you miscalculated. Either way, take a look at my numbers for comparison.

      We can get a 3.63kg bag of chickpeas here for $7.49 (CAD). Assuming you fulfill all your Calorie and protein needs from chickpeas alone (2500 Calories and 150g protein per day), it comes out to about $600/year. That’s $1.64/day. In order to be $10/day, you’d have to pay 6x as much for your chickpeas, so that same 3.63kg bag would have to cost $45.50.

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        2 months ago

        There’s no Amazon in Denmark. Basically anything bought from Amazon either comes from Germany or the UK, which makes Amazon probably the worst, most expensive option for any reason.

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          Ahh interesting! In Denmark what is the cheap protein replacement? In the US it’s mostly all dried beans.