Yep. Whole chicken, chicken thighs and drumsticks, eggs, frozen veggies, peanut butter, hamburger, canned tuna. Just a start.

It is a little more expensive...but well worth it. Try to shop at Aldi's and Costco if available.

I find the ingredients that you may buy are perhaps more expensive. Deals are there to be had, especially during bbq season on meat. But I also find that the foods you are eating are much more dense, satiating and filling so I find it hard to stuff myself as I used to almost a year ago. I feel during the initial phase you might eat more, but it tapers down and it's hard to eat a lot of food. Not sure if you have them where you live, but Winco is a great resource for inexpensively sourced foods (they buy directly from manufacturers to eliminate the middle men and they aren't unionized, both to keep costs low.) And of course WalMart... I refuse to pay Costco to be able to shop there, plus it's hard to walk out of there without a $250 bill on a bunch of crap that's going to go bad or you can't fit into your fridge/cupboards because the package size is so huge.

I started saving more money after i went Keto. Most of the full fat meat cuts are on sale in Target, Kroger or costco and cost much less than the low fat meats. Same with cheese, high fat stuff is cheap. I call it a wash between fruits and meat in terms of expenses.

I started saving more money after i went Keto. Most of the full fat meat cuts are on sale in Target, Kroger or costco and cost much less than the low fat meats. Same with cheese, high fat stuff is cheap. I call it a wash between fruits and meat in terms of expenses.

I find this to be true for me as well. Since my protein is very moderate and the veggies I like the best are very inexpensive the budget is doing good! I love cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, zucchini. I do shop at Aldi a lot and at Costco. I find that now that I'm not buying very many processed foods those costs are balanced out with the fresh things I'm buying.

Also, around here it is farmer's market season and that can be a fantastic place to find lovely, homegrown, vegetables. Mmmm!

I watch the sales at Bi-Lo and when they have buy one get one free sales, stock up. I also eat more hamburger than I probably should. LOL.

Pork is pretty cheap! I load up on pork chops at winn dixie when they are BOGO. Frozen veggies can be cheaper as they will last longer and reduce trips to the market.I buy the fattiest and cheapest hamburger. I buy a 5 dozen box of eggs at BJ's per week for my family of 3. Its really not more expensive unless you buy organic and grass fed.

We were able to find pasture raised ground beef @ $5/# & pork for $4.80/# through meetups. The pork we just got was 1/4 share of a whole pig that came out to about 40#'s of meat after butchering.

The meat comes from their family's farm in the Catskills & even though they deliver to the NYC area, the person who arranges it, actually lives < 5 miles from me. So luckily, I just pick it up from her house.

This shocked the hell outta me as I NEVER get this lucky.

As far as everything else, veggies from the green grocer (or farmer's market if you have those sorts of things near you, they keep popping up here on Long Island all over the place). We get butter & coconut oil from Costco too.

Patel Brothers (if you're in LI, NY) is a great place to get oils, herbs & spices really cheap too. Also, we have a garden that provides us with veggies so that helps defer costs too.

Sorry that most of this info is specific to my area but you may have to get a little creative. Before we got the meat from the farm, we used to buy it at Costco & freeze.

We're 2 weeks into the pork & have about 2 more weeks left, so for about 200$ we got 4 wks worth of meat.
Veggies, cream, butter etc usually run us about $100/wk at Costco
Family of 4

Like others have said bulk is your friend and also it depends on your caloric intake as well. For me personally i like to buy sausages, chicken thigh with skin on, hamburger patties at costco. I like fatty cut pork like pork belly and costco doesnt have them so i go to asian market to get my fix on them.