What Is Your Supplement Budget Every Month?

KimChee

KimChee

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How much do you set aside a month for staples items and how much for performance items? What is your favorite stack right now?
 
I’ve never actually sat down and calculated my staples, I was fortunate enough in Texas to make enough I didn’t have to. Now 2 months unemployed in Florida and the funds are drying up. My staples now are about 40 bucks a month (excluding protein). Now that I’m calculating, I just realized I spend over 200 bucks a month on liquid egg whites. Something will probably have to change with that lol.
 
Never thought about a budget, I guess I can't see myself spending more then $100/month. Are we including vitamins? And does protein bars count as food budget or supplement budget? Lol. Depending on those I could be over $100. I may spend extra when I'm looking to try something new. But my actual cost per month on average, $60-100.

I have no exciting supplement stack, creatine, lots of Eaas, vitamins and minerals, protein bars and RTD for the road. NAC, ubiquinol, berberine
 
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General health staples (multi, fish oil, D, cardiovascular support) =$80
Performance staples (creatine, preworkout, Mtest, protein) =$100
Performance extras depending on goal and stack size =$30-150
 
Around £250 per month, in USD that’s around $320 to $340 per month - I don’t see it as an expense though as it’s money spent on wellbeing and you can’t really put a price on that.

I’d rather be £250 down a month on supplements and feel good enough to be productive to earn that £250 than not spending that £250 and feeling like crap and unproductive. I find training changes your mindset on many aspects of life not just aesthetically but mentally as well.
 
I'm not sure the word "budget" applies to me here. ... But Definitely more than it should be.
 
3ChainedAminos said:
I’ve never actually sat down and calculated my staples, I was fortunate enough in Texas to make enough I didn’t have to. Now 2 months unemployed in Florida and the funds are drying up. My staples now are about 40 bucks a month (excluding protein). Now that I’m calculating, I just realized I spend over 200 bucks a month on liquid egg whites. Something will probably have to change with that lol.
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Damn $200 on liquid eggs whites?
 
BigGame84 said:
I mega-dose most natty supplements. The other thing is stock. Often brands like CEL/SNS will be OOS so I need to stock up. It can take months for some supplements to come back in stock.
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You have a good point really.
 
Tunaking14 said:
lol- not as bad as most would think! $400 or so but my stash on the other hand……….
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I order stuff for my wife but she only requires a fraction of the doses most of the time as she is sensitive to everything it seems so those bottles pile up and my stash grows!! lol!
 
Nearly nothing nowadays. I take a few vitamins/minerals and creatine, cut back hard considering prices on lots of other things. Protein and higher protein foods are just part of my nutritional budget (and you can get so much at local stores now anyways compared to the past).

Maybe one day if I'm really focused on something I'll add more.
 
16-18 yrs old it was champion Heavy weight gainer 900 bc I thought Sean Lee or whatever his name was Sean something was all natural. so that was $40 a month.

18-23'ish, I was in the military basically eating 3k good calories a day for like $10 a day literally at the dining hall and taking a ECA stack preworkout for like $50 total a month. I used mini-cross pills from like the back of some magazine, 25mg E, these 200mg no-dooz, and asprin.

Somewhere in there I found the original Dan Duchain Ultimate Orange Powder and used that exclusively bc that sht made me strong as fck. I didn't need any more sups, strength = size eventually. I'm talking early 2000's.

aww the good ol days.
 
3ChainedAminos said:
Dude everything is more expensive here, it sucks, my new gym is 100 a month and it’s nothing special. It’s wild.
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I was in Florida last month. I went grocery shopping day 1 and your right. Everything was like 10%-15% more. Some things were significantly more. I paid $4 for Walmart dozen eggs. Yesterday at Aldi I paid $1.69
 
Smont said:
I was in Florida last month. I went grocery shopping day 1 and your right. Everything was like 10%-15% more. Some things were significantly more. I paid $4 for Walmart dozen eggs. Yesterday at Aldi I paid $1.69
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Same... Publix is outright thievery. Walmart SS and Aldis weren't too bad though. WM chicken breast was .10 more a lb. Other things were also a few pct more than I pay in RI.
 
Smont said:
I was in Florida last month. I went grocery shopping day 1 and your right. Everything was like 10%-15% more. Some things were significantly more. I paid $4 for Walmart dozen eggs. Yesterday at Aldi I paid $1.69
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Between food/living prices and living with my In laws, it’s been a struggle lol.
 
jfigliuolo said:
Same... Publix is outright thievery. Walmart SS and Aldis weren't too bad though. WM chicken breast was .10 more a lb. Other things were also a few pct more than I pay in RI.
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Yeah, I shop at Publix because it’s literally 3 min away. The Walmart is about 20 and so good I feel like I have to carry. This place is so different from what I’m use to.
 
Chuck Diesel said:
16-18 yrs old it was champion Heavy weight gainer 900 bc I thought Sean Lee or whatever his name was Sean something was all natural. so that was $40 a month.

18-23'ish, I was in the military basically eating 3k good calories a day for like $10 a day literally at the dining hall and taking a ECA stack preworkout for like $50 total a month. I used mini-cross pills from like the back of some magazine, 25mg E, these 200mg no-dooz, and asprin.

Somewhere in there I found the original Dan Duchain Ultimate Orange Powder and used that exclusively bc that sht made me strong as fck. I didn't need any more sups, strength = size eventually. I'm talking early 2000's.

aww the good ol days.
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I’ve been trying to find the old mass gainer I took in 2 a days football in high school, I’m 90% sure it’s that champion heavyweight gainer. I swore it was a beef protein though, but the jug with the handle and logo are really making me think it was that. The nostalgia.
 
3ChainedAminos said:
Yeah, I shop at Publix because it’s literally 3 min away. The Walmart is about 20 and so good I feel like I have to carry. This place is so different from what I’m use to.
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Lol... was down there for 2 months. Close WM was in a nice area. But it was smaller. Tried another one farther away. It was awesome. (Except for the sheriffs posted in the parking lot!) Never went back. Honestly though it was the best biggest WM I've been to 😞
 
jfigliuolo said:
Lol... was down there for 2 months. Close WM was in a nice area. But it was smaller. Tried another one farther away. It was awesome. (Except for the sheriffs posted in the parking lot!) Never went back. Honestly though it was the best biggest WM I've been to 😞
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Damn 2 months?! For work? And lol there is cops at every store here. My brother in law is a homicide detective in Broward county and the stories he has is unreal. It’s like bad boys 2 with the Haitians here.
 
3ChainedAminos said:
Damn 2 months?! For work? And lol there is cops at every store here. My brother in law is a homicide detective in Broward county and the stories he has is unreal. It’s like bad boys 2 with the Haitians here.
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Newly retired. With my wife's health being sketchy and my mom with Alzheimer's living with us... it was time. Chose to spend time with them while it's still good.
 
pwo - 15
berberine - 20
joint - 25
fish oil - 20
gut health - 20

That's most of it. I take less in the summer when I'm not punishing my body. So I average $60-125. And can we agree that protein powder is not a supplement :)
 
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