So, I'm out of a job. I'm also really bored. As a result, I've started to think about ways to optimize my diet. In particular, getting the most protein for the cheapest price.

As such, I've compiled this table using nutritional information from FitDay and prices from this week's grocery flyers. As such, prices are in Canadian dollars.

The normalized values have been compared against chicken breasts...though I can't really explain why Excel thinks that an outside round roast has a smaller PPG than chicken breasts. Rounding error, I assume (no pun intended).

Source	Price Per Gram of Protein	Fat:Protein Ratio	Normalized PPG	Normalized FPR
Beef, Ground, Lean	$0.02	0.75	0.4	2.9
Egg, Whole	$0.02	0.80	0.5	3.1
Pork Chop	$0.03	0.31	0.6	1.2
Egg, White	$0.04	0.00	0.8	0.0
Chicken, Drumstick	$0.04	0.41	0.8	1.6
Beef, Steak, Outside Round	$0.04	0.54	0.8	2.1
Beef, Roast, Outside Round	$0.05	1.31	0.9	5.1
Chicken, Breast	$0.05	0.26	1.0	1.0
Beef, Roast, Sirloin	$0.06	0.47	1.1	1.8
Salmon	$0.09	0.27	1.9	1.1
Beef, Steak, Rib Eye	$0.10	0.85	2.1	3.3

As expected, cheaper sources of protein have more fat, though pork seems to be an exception. Now, I haven't cooked a pork chop for a long time, but I might be switching to them fairly soon.

(Edit: Egg whites are 4 cents / g of protein, not 8 cents)