I'm still in Taiwan so proteins are pretty expensive here once imported...  anywhere from 30-50% over the cost in USA.  I've looked around in Taiwan a bit and the best deal appears to be Muscle Juice 2600 by Ultimate Nutrition.  It costs NT1800 or $58 for the 11.1 lbs package.  Any opinions of this protein?  In a recent thread in this forum the 2544 is discussed and I guess this is the slightly better version with less fat.  ~250g serving gives ~55g of protein.  I guess this is more like a high calorie mass gainer and not a lean gainer?  All lean gainers proteins are $$$ here.  But if I use it as a meal substitute maybe it'll work okay?

I'm probably going to get it since it is the best option as far as price is concerned...  on Amazon a good seller seems to be the BSN True Mass and I like how that has extra vitamins but the BSN are expensive here.  Or...  my brother is coming to visit shortly but I dunno if it's wise to ask him to carry 25 lbs of protein in the luggage... heheh.  They customs will probably open it and taste it to make sure it isn't cocaine.  :-)

In my country, protein cost twice .. take that... UN whey is around 80-85usd and ON whey is around 90-100 (5 lbs)

Sorry to revive an old thread, but what do you guys think about BuyBulkWhey.com?

so, i'm done with my first kg of whey isolate.  going to order another kg.  but this time i'm thinking about also getting a kilo of casein as well to compliment the whey isolate.  what do you guys think?  the casein protein in taiwan is selling for 780nt (~$25.60) per kg or about $11.6.  price seems decent and i only need to buy a kg at a time.  the label says per 100g serving it has whopping 97g of protein as well as 1400mg of calcium.  with the slower releasing property i guess i'll be taking these at night and the none gym days.

I read that it was shown to contain too many heavy metals. I also remember something about some people being allergic, but I might be getting confused about something else.

^^^ What he said. Why would you spend so much money when there's a much, much cheaper option?

EDIT: I had forgotten the heavy metals discussion from last summer but went back and looked... I don't remember why I singled those two out but I assume it's because when I looked around they had the highest heavy metal content. Or something like that. But again, I wouldn't worry about it too much. If that's what's standing between you and Muscle Milk, go ahead and flush that money right down the toilet.

meat is the best protein powder. If you eat it before bed you'll have sweet dreams

yah i think i'm gonna pick up a lot of chicken breasts and grill or steam them...  also organic eggs relatively cheap in taiwan.  100nt or $3 gets me 24-26 of them.  and i don't mind eating lot of egg whites.  hmm, just did the math and i'm paying 700nt ($27.33) for a kg of whey and that's 800g of protein.  the same 700nt would buy me at least 700g of egg white protein (based on 4g per egg white).  seems like natural is the way to go for me.

non organic eggs are even cheaper 100nt gets over 30 of them.  since i'm only gonna go for egg whites they're probably good.  the color and texture of the yolk is vastly different.  organic yolks are rich, orange and reddish in color, less fluffy when boiled.  non organic yolk are light shade of yellow and more dry when boiled.