Dietary optimization: EAAs and cost

Lately, I’ve noticed that my food bill is pretty significant. In the pursuit of optimum health, seeking the best-quality healthy foods can become pretty expensive. Adding this to the supplements regimen and the skincare routine, I easily surpassed the value of my home mortgage. Had to stop momentarily. To catch up economically. For now, only very basic supplementation and skin routine.

The food is trickier. The strategy I chose was to prioritize essential amino acids, choosing the foods, or mixtures of food, yielding the maximum values for the minimum cost. Only healthy foods and, for me, vegetarian and lowfat+low sugar.

I discovered that the AIs can be pretty helpful, this is the very detailed answer GPT5 provided when asking about a mixture of dairy milk or soymilk and bread, some of the more inexpensive and balanced items I could think about.
A lesson in practical nutritional biochemistry. It provided precise average values, with their ranges.

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This is a quick and inexpensive dish I tried today. I made a cream with nonfat Greek Yogurt (200 gr) and lowfat milk (50 gr), added leftover bread (50 gr, only the soft part), a little stevia and vanilline extract. It was delicious. I discovered by interrogating GPT5 that it contributed about 50% to my daily optimum requirement of essential aminoacids (taking as a reference lysine, the limiting one in this mixture).

Another foodgroup I explored is nuts & seeds. I started by searching the market prices for non-Chinese products, related exclusively to the edible portion of the nuts/seeds. The more inexpensive, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds, are also pretty rich in the protein portion, next I’ll have to explore the EAAs profile and DIAAS of mixtures.