High Protein without Supplements?

egg whites mixed with regular eggs.
Soy protein powder used to replace some of the flour in any baking you do

Why are you against protein powders?

Protein is more expensive compared to carbohydrates and fats
There are websites with really cheap proteins that are actually more economical than food (I would rather get the satisfaction of eating real food though)

Cheap food protein sources: frozen chicken breasts, ground chicken/turkey, egg whites, liver (I can get 150g protein worth for like 3$), whiting (fish), cottage cheese

I try to limit processed foods, don't eat artificial sweetners, and think there should be a way to do this without supplements. The powders and the bars have alot of sugar and/or artificial sweetners it seems, and both are expensive.

Just about everything you eat is processed, it's how it becomes food. Killing a cow and butchering it? That's a process; do you even know what you are trying to define? The Romans made a crude form of MSG thousands of years ago, and they didn't use factories to do it. Does that make it the good processed or bad? White rice is just brown rice with the husk and bran removed, something that has been done for quite a long time as well.

Your string cheese, cereals, and greek yogurt? Oh billy are they processed.

Protein powders are essentially powdered skim milk, and you can get many that are naturally sweetened, Optimum Nutrition makes a couple blends of that. Most powders are sweetened with something similar to splenda, and are not very heavy with it at all. If you are concerned about heavy metals, well if you ever owned an iPod prior to 2011 you took in more arsenic in your fingertips than a 6lb bag of Crytosport muscle milk will ever have.

If you want to steer clear of that, just eat lots of chicken breast, tuna steak or sashimi, liver, keep with the greek yogurt and most everything else folks have suggested.


As for my previous comments; if you are out killing your own livestock, keep a chicken coop to provide you eggs, and everything you eat, you grew, and ate raw, out of the ground without doing anything to it; I'll shut the *kitten* up.

I use Now Foods Unflavored Whey Protein Isolate powder.

105 calories, 25g protein, less than 1g sugar, 1g carbs

You aren't going to find any food that has that much protein for that little calories. Essentially it is a natural supplement (it's made from milk, and is 98% pure) that you can add to virtually any food.

I add a scoop into my nonfat greek yogurt, and for 245 calories, I get 49g of protein. If you are watching your calories and need that much protein, I would give it a try.