Dear god changing diets can cost a fortune.

Actually I am reaping big time savings changing my diet. No more alcohol, soda, junk food, eating out, fatty foods, sugars or deserts...i stick to a strict diet through out the week and maybe will give myself a treat day on the weekend. Anyways for me alone i could spend 100 dollars a week in the store. Now maybe 50 bucks.

No pain, no gain as they say...hard to put a price on your health too, but I am wondering why you'd go through a bag in 2 weeks? I don't do the SCD diet specifically, rather, I've just simply altered my diet cutting all the junk out and eating healthy, I've never even purchased a bag of almond flour, but then again, like I said I don't do the SCD specifically, just eating healthy and it's actually cheaper in many ways, fast-foods are really expensive (where I live in Canada anyways) and processed foods are too, it's cheaper for me to buy a bag of apples than a bag of chips.

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SCD is the specif ic carbohydrate diet - no carbohydrates or grains, very difficult to stick to but has a lot of followers.

Lucky - just do the diet without almond flour- I do mostly and only use it to make a cinnamon flop which I mix the flour 50/50 with shredded coconut. Eating no bread or potatoes takes some getting used to but may be worth it if it helps you. Learn how to make the yoghurt I find it's very nice as a treat to avoid anything sugary but also think it helps in larger quantities. I use an electric oven and make 6 pints at a time and store the rest in the fridge for upto 5 days no problem this makes it easy to make lots of it and cuts down on the time involved (it takes ages to boil milk from the fridge!)

Gluten-free stuff is also expensive, but I'm glad it exists. I'm saving money by not eating out so much, since that isn't as fun anymore (I'm off gluten/wheat, tomato, cheese, soy, and a few other foods based on food sensitivity testing). But I do not enjoy cooking!
I tried Greek yogurt, it has the consistency of sour cream and I like it a lot better than the thin, brand-name stuff. I know it has more protein, and expect it has the natural probiotics too, anyone know?

I've been on SCD for 6 months and I've never even tried almond flour yet. I don't even eat the  yogurt because I don't tolerate dairy products of any kind (except for eggs). In fact,  I didn't follow the introductory diet at all.  When I was just starting with a bad flare, all I ate was meat, eggs, bananas, and cooked vegetables. Currently, I eat only meat, fish, vegetables and fruit. Don't let the introductory diet discourage you. Just follow the basic premise of the diet - no starches or lactose of any kind! Activia is illegal on the diet. You don't have to spend a lot of money on the diet and you don't have to eat everything on the legal list, like dry curd cheese, which I was never able to find.

EKW

I wonder why Activia would be illegal - but then my question would become, "How illegal?"

I figure, there should be nothing wrong with eating one cup of activia yogurt a day, especially if I was following the rest of the diet fairly closely.

Lucky, I'm not doing SCD and I have crohns not UC, but I LOVE activia and I really think it helps me. I know it is high in sugar but if I have 1 per day and way less sugar the rest of the day I'm fine. Others will say it is just the probiotics and take them in pill form but I personally have had better luck w/ yogurt form.

I also wanted to offer you support on the cost of food issue. I need to move to where some of these other members live. For me, natural foods, fresh foods, healthy foods, ORGANIC foods, are WAY more expensive. And that is even in the regular grocery store, not whole foods which is so high priced. I could buy 8 huge bags of chips for the cost of one bag of apples. I could buy 4 cans of carrots for the price of one bag of fresh carrots. It is insane.

Yet my husband and I are trying to eat healthy on a budget. We know you can't put a price on health but money doesn't grow on trees. If you aint got it, you aint got it. We are living on his income and my student loans and have a mortgage and car payment and the usual utilities. No cable, minimal luxaries. So its not like our priorities are out of whack.

We find that it is worth spending more for hormone free beef and chicken, local veggies, etc. But still buy the boxed crackers and sandwich meat for our lunches.

And talking about unhealthy vs. healthy, compare the price of a sugar loaded cereal with some kashi cereal. Make sure you check the unit price since Kashi boxes are so small. Way more money to eat healthy.