Budget Grocery Shopping w/ Pro Bodybuilders | Fouad Abiad's OG Grocery Hauls

we are almost at the grocery store here in Windsor where I live and we're gonna work on letting you guys see what I used to eat coming up when I didn't have a good job I didn't have any money I'm basically gonna show you guys how to get big on a budget all right so bananas are always a must they don't have to be organic you can get regular bananas not the most expensive fruit but I always kind of the made room in my budget for a little bit of fruit so when I first started out I was bouncing and bouncers in this city make like minimum wage I used to take money at the door and shit let people in and kind of make extra money that way but no there wasn't a lot of money to go around but I just made sure you know I've it's not that hard like it really isn't like potatoes you can get a five-pound bag of potatoes for five bucks so I made that shit go a long way like I ate a lot of potatoes I ate a lot of oatmeal I ate a lot of rice like a bag of rice you can get big big bag of rice for ten bucks so these are the kind of things you want to look at when you're trying to get big on a budget you got to find what works for you and these are the cheapest foods so we'll grab a bag of potatoes five pound bag of potatoes five bucks so same thing when you're buying chicken okay you're gonna buy the cheaper cuts or the cheaper brands so like this is the grocery store brand they're looking at $15 a kilogram 7.50 7.50 a pound same thing with the chicken thighs but if you get into the more expensive stuff you know you're talking about the more prime cuts of chicken breasts this is 25 dollars a kilogram or 12.50 a pound so you want to keep you want to look at like drumsticks chicken thighs ground chicken ground turkey maybe not the highest end cuts of chicken breast that's where you're gonna live if you're if you're buying chicken but more importantly you're probably gonna live more in the beef area because ground beef is gonna be really cheap in comparison to chicken so if you come over here if we get into like a value pack which is probably what I would have bought back in the day you're looking at $12 a kilogram or $6 a pound so you're saving a couple bucks a pound this is probably what I'm gonna go for most of the time and it also honestly in the offseason probably what I eat most of anyway it mixes well with rice potato pasta whatever you're making this is gonna be my go-to so we'll get some ground beef we'll get some chicken let's grab some chicken breasts or some chicken thighs listen when your body building and you're worrying about money you don't really have the luxury of being like oh I can't I gotta eat the leanest cut of this or the leanest cut of that when you're trying to come up and you don't have a lot of money you're like okay if I have to buy the ground beef and I have to strain it then that's something I'll do oatmeal is always a must and this is four bucks okay so this bag last you a week if you're eating like a lot of oatmeal you're eating a couple cups a day this will last you like a week or more so you know it's only four dollars carbs are the cheapest if anybody tells you you know carbs are expensive then they're buying the wrong carb okay I never spent a ton of money on like really really expensive spices and spice mixes and shit I would grab a big container of salt and a big container of pepper that shit would last me forever it's a minor expense but something you got to think about okay six bucks for this big-ass thing right okay this is a little bit more expensive but I have to make my food taste good somewhat so I grab the peppercorns with the grinder it's like seven bucks for this but this is going to last you forever like this is it's a lot of pepper so I'm not worried about this I'm gonna have to buy once every fucking two months pasta is fucking cheap now if you're gonna buy rice pasta you're gonna spend a little more but you don't want to you don't have to do that if we go over here like this is crazy look at this four of these for five bucks so in the offseason when I'm growing I'll usually smash one or two of these a day okay so this is five bucks okay and one fifth of the package is 63 grams of carbs so you literally most for most people most guys you know 200 pound bodybuilder 220 pound bodybuilder for most guys this is 5 meals so you literally bought 5 meals for $1.25 okay this is how you save money oh we need some pasta sauce this is gonna sound gross to you guys but I didn't care back in the day but I used to get this big jug of like prego pasta sauce and they used to have it at all the grocery stores I don't see it in here anymore so I live down here somewhere you know these aren't as good but you're at 2.99 these are the types of pasta sauces I used to eat back in the day these ragu over here even better 2.50 I lived in the 2.50 area somewhere okay so we have rice we have all these different types of rice and they're 10 bucks I mean look at this is insane all right got like the 17 pound bag of rice and it's ten bucks this will last you fuck man this could last you a month depending on how much pasta you're eating you come in here and you get like you know chickens on sale buy fucking ten packs of chicken don't worry about it if fucking portion them off what I used to do actually to be honest with you is I would go to a butcher and I would get big bags of fucking ground beef and I would have them portion them into one-pound bags and it would freeze the bag now when I look at this for some reason I don't believe this is actually olive oil it looks like fucking canola oil with a olive sticker on it so I like people to fool me if you're gonna fool me you got to do a better job so to me this looks more so I'll spend a little bit more money this one's $8.99 or even this one here is $9.99 it's organic so it looks pretty authentic to me this looks like a you know straight from Italy so oh so you know but again like okay it's ten bucks it's a lot of money to spend on one item but this item you know depending how much fat is in your diet this could last a month so you know we're talking about buying weekly but some of the items I have in here are gonna be monthly purchases like you're not gonna buy this weekly you're not gonna buy this salt weekly most of the weekly stuff that we're buying is the meat the oatmeal the bananas you know the rice even is gonna last more than a week too I have to be honest with you guys nowadays I can no longer eat like shitty tuna I have to eat like a little bit like the nicer tuna the tuna here is the 1.49 on the bottom there that's probably what I would went for back in the day I can't eat that anymore I just I can't get it down so now I'm in the the flaky white tuna it's got to be albacore so I'm probably here so it's 3.50 which is not much cheaper than you can probably get a chicken breast for so I'm not really saving myself money by buying tuna anymore and I don't think you would be either unless you're down at the bottom if you're gonna spend 4 bucks on this you could probably get a chicken breast for 4 bucks if you're not a good cook or if you're cooking with less than the highest quality foods condiments are a must like one of my meals back in the day man that shitty can of tuna with some baked potatoes in Italian dressing and mash all that shit together and that was a meal and it's cheapest as fuck cuz the tuna was cheap the potatoes are cheap and then you get a bottle of Italian dressing for like five bucks so condiments are an absolute must if you're gonna get your food down so for tuna you know you're looking at Mayo this is five bucks we go with this mustard is always a must if you're gonna buy the frenches you're gonna pay a little more this one's a dollar ninety-nine I've never eaten the no-name ketchup I'm a sucker for marketing so I'm going with the no sugar added Heinz three bucks if you're gonna be eating a lot of chicken you know drumsticks thighs or cheaper cuts of chicken breast barbecue sauce is a must you're gonna be dousing it so this is a dollar ninety-nine because we're not rich we can't afford fresh organic vegetables unless we go to like a market you know if you go to like a farmers market you can probably get cheaper vegetables and stuff there but if you're just going to try and pick everything up here frozen vegetables probably cheapest bet so this is what I was using for vegetables back in the day I don't know if this counts as vegetables it probably doesn't it's like really just like the sugariest worse vegetables you can find but I'm just being real man this is what I ate I'd mix it with my rice mix it with whatever and help me get my food down so egg whites are super super popular right now I mean they've always been popular but if you're gonna do egg whites if you have to if you if you have a little bit extra money you're gonna be over here this is like the grocery store brand it's three bucks for a carton so that's actually a pretty good buy like if you think about it that's three bucks for 50 grams of protein so you're looking at 3 bucks if you're eating usually if you're 200 to 250 pound guy you're eating 50 grams of protein for a meal three bucks for a meal is pretty good so throw in some egg whites and then you always got to have eggs because eggs are probably like the best bodybuilding food ever you know these are $4.99 so the only thing we're missing now to complete my diet it would be some peanut butter so let's grab that so we're still gonna look for the cheapest one so what I used to do is just grab this one this Kraft one is just peanuts there's nothing else in it so yeah peanut butter is a must it's a little bit more expensive because we're not buying the regular shitty brand we're buying like the natural just peanuts so you're gonna pay $6.99 for this but it's still better than paying $6.99 for this and a little bit more in this one this is probably a better quality brand but I don't give a shit when I'm trying to save money I want more so this is more okay guys so that's our bodybuilding on a budget we got our eggs our chicken thighs the ground beef we got all our stuff we need rice pasta everything we need to get big now we're gonna check go to the checkout see where we're at but like I said these aren't all weekly items so I'm gonna try and ring up the weekly items first let's see what that comes to and then I'm gonna add the other things in that we're gonna that are gonna last a lot longer like this jar peanut butter or you know this bottle of olive oil that will last probably a month so let's see what our weekly food comes to we're gonna try and stay under 100 bucks and then we'll add in our ancillary items that are probably gonna make a total a little more but they're also gonna last a lot longer than a week see that's what I'm saying so you can buy your weekly food for a hundred bucks and that food will last me you know a little while like three days four days and then we're gonna get into some of this stuff which is gonna last longer but we're gonna need anyway so you can go ahead and add it so the final total is 130 476 I should go I should be on The Price is Right

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Id: LEycWmb-99M

Length: 14min 4sec (844 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 11 2019