alternative to Kinetica oat gain

fret_wimp2

Im on Kinetica oat gain at the min, but as i have one shake per day, a 4.5kg bag lasts only a little more than a month, and its pricey.

Anyone use any slightly cheaper alternative?

b_mac2

fret_wimp2 wrote: »

Im on Kinetica oat gain at the min, but as i have one shake per day, a 4.5kg bag lasts only a little more than a month, and its pricey.

Anyone use any slightly cheaper alternative?

A coffee bean grinder and a big bag of oats from Tesco. Throw the results in to some milk with your whey protein of choice.

Alf Veedersane

It's basically a carbs and protein in a rough 2:1 ratio (52:28 per 100g).

You could make your own with oats and whey.

How much does the Oat Gain cost?

fret_wimp2

Depends where you get it. On the kinetica site its over 100 quid for a 4.5kg bag.
Most places have it for between 64 and 70 though.

I got mine in January for half price on a deal(35 quid a bag). Was a limited purchase offer though and im on my last bag.

At normal price of about 64 quid a bag ita roughly 2.30 per 160g serving

Mellor

fret_wimp2 wrote: »

At normal price of about 64 quid a bag ita roughly 2.30 per 160g serving

€2.30 for a 630 calorie serve isn't really that expensive. I bet if you look at the rest of your food over a month, there are foods that are much more expensive in terms of cost/calories.
It just looks expensive aren't putting away 20,000 calories of those foods per month.


If you want to do a cheaper version, then 5kg of oats and 2.5kg of Impact whey from MyProtein is about €49, you can maybe get it down a bit if you buy oats in Aldi or Lidl. That comes to about 550 per serve.
If you really want to match the profile of kinetica, add a 500g jar of cocnut oil (€2.20 in tesco) to oats and blend.


That comes to 8kg of mix for €50
€1.00 and 640 calories per 160g serve

Greenmachine

I would be inclined to go the way Mellor has suggest. If you don't have a coffee grinder a blender will do the same job.
ALDI, LIDL, TESCO all have 1kg bags of oats for 93c. Add in the cost of a bag of protein powder from my protein and you will be onto a winner. They also always have a few valid coupons online. Depending on the coupon you could make nice additional savings. Anything up to 30% off, if a coupon is expired, imputting it may still yield you a smaller discount.

Mellor wrote: »

€2.30 for a 630 calorie serve isn't really that expensive. I bet if you look at the rest of your food over a month, there are foods that are much more expensive in terms of cost/calories.
It just looks expensive aren't putting away 20,000 calories of those foods per month.


If you want to do a cheaper version, then 5kg of oats and 2.5kg of Impact whey from MyProtein is about €49, you can maybe get it down a bit if you buy oats in Aldi or Lidl. That comes to about 550 per serve.
If you really want to match the profile of kinetica, add a 500g jar of cocnut oil (€2.20 in tesco) to oats and blend.


That comes to 8kg of mix for €50
€1.00 and 640 calories per 160g serve

KTR1C

I've been grinding my own oats for years, never understood why people lay down this serious money for a very very very cheap food stuff such as oats !!