[benaduggan]

What do you consider expensive? I am able to follow the keto diet on around $200 a month, and that's with splurging on things here and there. I've never really understood why people say it is so much more expensive.

[leetbulb]

Starting the diet: I transitioned from eating simple things like cheap bread, pastas, lots of frozen crap, etc to eating lots of meats, oils, eggs, etc. When you compare the cheapest routes of a poorly balanced S.A.D. (what most generally unhealthy people are following) vs properly balanced Keto, I've found Keto to be more expensive.

After losing weight and maintaining the diet: it was more expensive to maintain a high caloric load after losing the weight. At the time I racked up about 6000 miles/yr on my road bike while at my optimal weight (no body fat to burn). Fats to supply the fuel I needed (mostly MCT's) were far more expensive than simple carbohydrates.

EDIT: I'm not complaining about the cost, I'm just comparing it to what unhealthy people are generally used to. I am currently on the Sated Keto (Ketolent) diet and it's costing around $270/mo which is perfectly acceptable.

[johnkpaul]

I think that it depends on how far you go after fat adaptation. Once that happened for me, and I got comfortable with eating straight butter when in a time crunch, things became very very cheap. Butter, sugar free bacon, eggs and spinach are basically all I buy anymore. I have found, personally, that all of my desire for variety was really desire for carbohydrate variety and now I'm totally fine with whatever keto option is cheap, fast and convenient.

[gremlinsinc]

you really eat straight butter? I'm 2 weeks into keto, but that doesn't sound too appetizing lol.

[JibJabLab]

Buying more meats/cheeses over pastas and sauces. Buying Almond flour over AP flour. Buying Avocado or coconut oil over corn oil. This list goes on and on. Yes, you can spend a low amount on this diet but you really might be limiting your meal variety.