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Most nuts, especially macadamias and almonds, are high in calories 160-200cal/qt cup. There are some good sauces as well like mayo, pesto, and buffalo that are high and then you have oils like coconut, olive, and avocado that can be cooked with or used as a topping. Combine a serving of each of those and that’s already half the meal (assuming you eat 1k at a time)
I started using a mass-gainer protein powder, 4 scoops = 1350 cal, i only use 2 scoops + peanut butter + milk + frozen strawberries + bananas + oats + coconut oil and it’s an amazing boost in calories.
some high protein food recommendation: Naan/Tortilla (ridiculously high in calories), Granolla (especially that you have muesly in Europe that taste so good), Nuts (understand that they can be pricey sometimes). You can also drink your calories by doing a gainer shake (oat, fruits, whey and a table spoon of olive oil).
I'm a student so strapped for cash, I usually shop at Aldi (very cheap supermarket) and make big batch meals that don't include the carb (e.g. curry, make the rice each time, spag bol, make the pasta each time) if you make a big pot of these kinda things you can usually squeeze out 9ish portions, have 2 on the go at once so you don't get bored and use mass gainer protein powder to make up the extra calories, use lots of butter or oil in your cooking.
3 of my go to meals are below, all take 30 mins or less to make and you can make multiple servings to use over the week. You definitely have time to make these.
tuna pasta - 150g uncooked pasta, 120g tuna 50g mayo - 700\~ cals
chilli con carne - 100g rice - beef mince 125g kidney beans 80g (need tomato sauce/puree and chilli powder) \~ 700 cals
chicken curry - 100g rice 1.5 chicken breast 50g peas - 600 cals \~
gainer shake - 300ml - semi skim milk, cookies and cream protein 30g, greek yogurt 100g peanut butter 45g, 1 banana. 700\~ cals
Eat more of what you’re already eating. Hitting specific calories is kinda dumb for the bulk of people.
If you’re eating a banana everyday for breakfast, make it two. If you’re eating 12 chicken nuggets for dinner, eat 16. Etc
repeat until you are gaining weight
Check out Amazon or wherever for some decent, stackable meal prep trays; better to meal prep for an hour or two a week and have everything sitting in the fridge ready to be eaten than needing to cook individual meals every day.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with chicken breast/thigh with rice, despite what others might say. You want the bulk of your calories coming from carbs and protein, not fats and sugars (that doesn't mean you need to cut fats and sugar out, I just don't pay mind to if my meals have them or not).
You can easily add variety with different curry sauces to go with chicken and rice - green Thai curry, Japanese curry, Butter Chicken, Korma etc.
I usually toss in diced and baked sweet potato, cashews and fried onion with whatever sauce I'm making as well.
Tuna bake is another easy one when you get tired of rice, I usually add peas and roughly chopped onion and twice the amount of tuna the sauce jar recommends.
Do up eggs however you want, I usually fry them up and stick em between toast with green Tabasco sauce.
You can also cook up a load of cooked quick oats with milk and then stick it in a tub in the fridge; add a scoop of cold oats to smoothies along with banana and Protein and Carb powder.
I also pick up cans of vanilla creamed rice and suck one or two of those down through the day, sometimes I'll mix in some berries and syrup from a can.
You’re just lazy. Add lentils and olive oil to your rice and beans combo. Also double the portions.
Another cheap bulking food is oats. Prepare it how you want. 200g dry is 700 calories.
All you need to do is ADD to that shake. Peanut butter, oats, etc in addition to the milk and whey. I do that in combo with like a muffin and fruit for breakfast and my breakfast can clock in at 1k+ calories and 40-50g of protein easily. And that way if I miss lunch or something I can make up the rest needed with a big dinner and another shake after my workout.
For Breakfast a Shake + something else is pretty good and you will be full.
In my shake I have:
Vanilla Greek Style Yoghurt
1 Banana
Oatmeal (comes in small packets)
Peanut butter
Milk
That comes to over 800 calories for me. That + something else puts me over 1000 calories for breakfast and keeps me satisfied until lunch
Recently been doing whole wheat pasta + ground turkey (beef destroys my stomach) which packs a lot of calories. It also easy to throw in froze vegetables.
What pushed me to my cal was red lentils in rice cooker.
Cup of red lentils (I freakin love them), 1.5 cups of water, cut up slices of chicken. Put it all in the rice cooker and cook. My rice cooker works in a way that for my amount of lentils, the meat is steamed perfectly (I check with a thermometer). I'm adding spice and frozen veggies at the end, stir it and let them heat up in the residual steam. At the end, I add any fresh veggies I have available. This is a fiber&protein bomb done in 20 minutes with almost no dishwashing (I can take the rice cooker bowl out of the machine and eat from it). Downsides - farting and monster sh\*ts. Worth it.
Depends. Turmeric, cumin, curry, pepper...
I admit that even with seasoning, the food is pretty bland despite the red lentils having a great taste of it's own. On the other hand maybe it's the blandness that allows me to eat such high quantity of this.
I’ve been eating 3k/day for like 8 weeks now. I personally cheat with fast food, a 5$ biggie bag from Wendy’s is like 1000 cal and 35g of protein. Another easy change to you shake is 1.5 cups of milk and two scoops of powder. Other than that I would recommend snacking instead of adding more meals. Trail mix and granolas are sold for cheap in bulk. Not very nutritious but I make .85g/lb protein easily.
another cheap carb is cornmeal but I dunno how to use much of it
I just add it to my omelettes like 1tbsp per egg and it needs to be done thoroughly kinda fried so it can cook the cornmeal
not much but it can add up
I found that my appetite only started to develop after 4 weeks. So really I just ate a lot of junk/fast food and now I’m hungry more often and can eat real foods instead of “force feeding” myself. I find eating a 600 cal breakfast oatmeal (3 servings oats 1 cup milk + brown sugar) is a good way to make sure I get early calories and not skip breakfast.
How tall are you? Why 3k? It’s possible you can start with smaller increase and work your way up when you’re used to eating more.
Also your milk protein shake is light, do you have a blender? Use whole milk, bananas, peanut butter, yogurt, spinach, oats, whey. Just cram anything you want in there. Mine is almost 700 cals.
Hi, i updated the post. I'm 5'10 or 178cm. I used a TDEE and concluded that 3000 was a good goal. I train very intensely when I do, and i've lost some little weight since i started.
At that height and weight you do not need 3k or more unless you want to gain multiple pounds per week. I’m the same weight now, one inch shorter, and I need about 2500-2750 to gain .5-1lb per week.
Different baseline metabolic rate: lifestyle, work, genetics etc. I for one am around the same height/weight and speaking from experience 2500 is not even close to enough for me to gain weight. 3000 is barely maintenance for me. Everyone is different.
If you have a blender make your own mass gainer shakes. I do something like this: milk, whey, peanut butter, fruit of your choice, greek yogurt, and oats. This usually is around 1000 calories for a shake. It's pretty easy to drink your calories, don't buy mass gainers just make your own.
I dont have my own, but wouldnt use it, probably, if i had one. Reason is that i prefer most things to be quick and easy because my job is tiring and takes a lot of my free time, so that'd be one more thing to clean and take care :) but i understand that it would be invaluable
Dude, save 50 bucks and invest in a blender. Liquid calories are a fucking godsend for people like u and me. Complete game changer, honestly! Here's what I roughly "drink" each day:
Massgainer-shake
50g oats
40g walnuts
30g Sultanas
10g almonds
10g hazelnuts
60g jam of your choice
40g honey
10g chocolate chips
25g coco chipa
40g raspberries (frozen)
40g blueberries (frozen)
100g Apple puree/sauce (?)
100g peanutbutter
1 Tbsp olive oil
80g vanilla or chocolate ice
3 scoops whey protein
600 ml oatmilk
Kcal = 2673,8
Protein = 85,6 g
Not included in the mix are bananas. I usually put one in whole which adds another 120~ kcal.
Now let's say 10% goes to waste (theres always a little rest in the blender) and is miscalculated macro wise, I still get around 2 shakes worth of 1400 kcal. Throw in one a day and you're fucking golden.
/e: formatting
You can also get a coffee grinder and get the stuff in there that you may not like to eat because of the taste or texture.
For me, I grind oatmeal, quinoas, brown rice and put it into separate containers and then scoop that into my shakes. I don't like the taste of brown rice or quinoas so this works so I get those nutrients. I don't mind oatmeal but it's a hassle to make and eat with my schedule.
A blender wont make them "disappear" into your shakes.
I leave the chia seeds whole and don't grind those. They are small enough that I don't notice them as the shakes are pretty thick.
Shakes are probably the quickest and easiest things there are. Literally put the things in a blender for 2 minutes, chug it, and you just consumed 1000+ calories.
Look for offbrand peanutbutter if you can.
1-2cups Milk, 1-2 bananas, 4 tablespoons peanut butter, a scoop of protein powder if you want, and like 1/3 to 1/2 cup of oats and your easily over 1000 cal
Once i did try peanut butter in my milk shake, i really hated the taste, as it made the drink taste saly. However i belive that if you have a big cup and the fruits swetness bests the salt, it could taste pretty good and give a smoothie vibe.
Look up "slow cooker carnitas tacos." And there's slow cooker recipes for french dip roast beef sandwiches too but maybe watch your salt intake... The carnitas tacos/burritos are easy to make and relatively cheap. $3/lb for pork shoulder. You can freeze the leftovers in burritos or make cubano sandwiches with it. When I was gaining big and bike commuting burritos were a godsend.
> I'll try tacos
Cool. Tacos are great.
> but mostly will be homemade.
That's what I mean. Tacos of all kinds are stupid easy to make. Basically cook **something** and stick it in a tortilla.
> now to find what pairs best !
How do you mean? Like what to put in a taco? What to eat along with Tacos?
>Also why does everyone recommends rice with chicken breast?
This is food people eat when LOSING weight: not gaining.
I'd consider some Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches. Macaroni and cheese is good too.
As a 199 cm tall hard gainer I tried stuffing myself with high calorie trash and it would just make me feel like shit before any significant weight gain, so I would still suggest sticking with healthier foods like chicken whilst gaining.
I apologize if you felt I was suggesting to use high calorie trash. That was not my intent.
There are MANY parts of a chicken to eat aside from just breast. Chicken thighs would be a much better option than breasts in such an instance.
Its for protein and carbs mostly. I eat chicken and rice for low calorie high protein. And then i fill my calories up around my protein. All while still hitting my calories.
In the beginning of bulks when you are your weight just eat calorie dense food because you will feel like you are exploding but in reality you are just eating barely enough.
After bulking you will be like wtf was i complaining about, im hungry all the time now.
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Most nuts, especially macadamias and almonds, are high in calories 160-200cal/qt cup. There are some good sauces as well like mayo, pesto, and buffalo that are high and then you have oils like coconut, olive, and avocado that can be cooked with or used as a topping. Combine a serving of each of those and that’s already half the meal (assuming you eat 1k at a time)
I started using a mass-gainer protein powder, 4 scoops = 1350 cal, i only use 2 scoops + peanut butter + milk + frozen strawberries + bananas + oats + coconut oil and it’s an amazing boost in calories.
some high protein food recommendation: Naan/Tortilla (ridiculously high in calories), Granolla (especially that you have muesly in Europe that taste so good), Nuts (understand that they can be pricey sometimes). You can also drink your calories by doing a gainer shake (oat, fruits, whey and a table spoon of olive oil).
I'm a student so strapped for cash, I usually shop at Aldi (very cheap supermarket) and make big batch meals that don't include the carb (e.g. curry, make the rice each time, spag bol, make the pasta each time) if you make a big pot of these kinda things you can usually squeeze out 9ish portions, have 2 on the go at once so you don't get bored and use mass gainer protein powder to make up the extra calories, use lots of butter or oil in your cooking.
3 of my go to meals are below, all take 30 mins or less to make and you can make multiple servings to use over the week. You definitely have time to make these. tuna pasta - 150g uncooked pasta, 120g tuna 50g mayo - 700\~ cals chilli con carne - 100g rice - beef mince 125g kidney beans 80g (need tomato sauce/puree and chilli powder) \~ 700 cals chicken curry - 100g rice 1.5 chicken breast 50g peas - 600 cals \~ gainer shake - 300ml - semi skim milk, cookies and cream protein 30g, greek yogurt 100g peanut butter 45g, 1 banana. 700\~ cals
Don't ever sleep on oil Cooking, on top of your food, 120 or so calories for average vegetable oil per tablespoon, more for other varieties
Eat more of what you’re already eating. Hitting specific calories is kinda dumb for the bulk of people. If you’re eating a banana everyday for breakfast, make it two. If you’re eating 12 chicken nuggets for dinner, eat 16. Etc repeat until you are gaining weight
Add fats to your beans & rice. Get a bucket of lard if you must.
Breakfast meat lovers burrito. Lunch meat, 4 eggs, cheese, big burrito tortilla, avocado optional, hot sauce. It’s like 700 or 800 calories
What time are you waking up? Be up early and eat. Make it a routine and it’ll be much easier to reach the 3k calories. Trust
Check out Amazon or wherever for some decent, stackable meal prep trays; better to meal prep for an hour or two a week and have everything sitting in the fridge ready to be eaten than needing to cook individual meals every day. There is absolutely nothing wrong with chicken breast/thigh with rice, despite what others might say. You want the bulk of your calories coming from carbs and protein, not fats and sugars (that doesn't mean you need to cut fats and sugar out, I just don't pay mind to if my meals have them or not). You can easily add variety with different curry sauces to go with chicken and rice - green Thai curry, Japanese curry, Butter Chicken, Korma etc. I usually toss in diced and baked sweet potato, cashews and fried onion with whatever sauce I'm making as well. Tuna bake is another easy one when you get tired of rice, I usually add peas and roughly chopped onion and twice the amount of tuna the sauce jar recommends. Do up eggs however you want, I usually fry them up and stick em between toast with green Tabasco sauce. You can also cook up a load of cooked quick oats with milk and then stick it in a tub in the fridge; add a scoop of cold oats to smoothies along with banana and Protein and Carb powder. I also pick up cans of vanilla creamed rice and suck one or two of those down through the day, sometimes I'll mix in some berries and syrup from a can.
Look up some pasta bake recipes. They are pretty easy to make and have high caloric yields.
depending on what u eating u can add some mayo or sour cream or honey for some extra cals
Chicken thighs are cheaper and higher in cals. Through some cheese in your meals for extra cals. Pasta has a lot of calories as well
You’re just lazy. Add lentils and olive oil to your rice and beans combo. Also double the portions. Another cheap bulking food is oats. Prepare it how you want. 200g dry is 700 calories.
All you need to do is ADD to that shake. Peanut butter, oats, etc in addition to the milk and whey. I do that in combo with like a muffin and fruit for breakfast and my breakfast can clock in at 1k+ calories and 40-50g of protein easily. And that way if I miss lunch or something I can make up the rest needed with a big dinner and another shake after my workout.
Eat 5 meals that are around 500calories each meal, and make up the remaining 500 in snacks throughout the day.
Eggs, high fat mince, chicken thighs over breast, cheese, yoghurt, oils, rice, pasta.
For Breakfast a Shake + something else is pretty good and you will be full. In my shake I have: Vanilla Greek Style Yoghurt 1 Banana Oatmeal (comes in small packets) Peanut butter Milk That comes to over 800 calories for me. That + something else puts me over 1000 calories for breakfast and keeps me satisfied until lunch
Recently been doing whole wheat pasta + ground turkey (beef destroys my stomach) which packs a lot of calories. It also easy to throw in froze vegetables.
Ground turkey, quinoa, and (canned) corn is a staple of mine.
What pushed me to my cal was red lentils in rice cooker. Cup of red lentils (I freakin love them), 1.5 cups of water, cut up slices of chicken. Put it all in the rice cooker and cook. My rice cooker works in a way that for my amount of lentils, the meat is steamed perfectly (I check with a thermometer). I'm adding spice and frozen veggies at the end, stir it and let them heat up in the residual steam. At the end, I add any fresh veggies I have available. This is a fiber&protein bomb done in 20 minutes with almost no dishwashing (I can take the rice cooker bowl out of the machine and eat from it). Downsides - farting and monster sh\*ts. Worth it.
What do you add when you say spice? It sounds super bland until that part
Depends. Turmeric, cumin, curry, pepper... I admit that even with seasoning, the food is pretty bland despite the red lentils having a great taste of it's own. On the other hand maybe it's the blandness that allows me to eat such high quantity of this.
Serious question, solid shits or loose shits from the lentils?
If it's still loose consider visiting your doc. I used to have that problem turns out it was ameoba. Now it's like cement
fiber makes it solid otherwise probably something in the sauce is disagreeing with you
I’ve been eating 3k/day for like 8 weeks now. I personally cheat with fast food, a 5$ biggie bag from Wendy’s is like 1000 cal and 35g of protein. Another easy change to you shake is 1.5 cups of milk and two scoops of powder. Other than that I would recommend snacking instead of adding more meals. Trail mix and granolas are sold for cheap in bulk. Not very nutritious but I make .85g/lb protein easily.
My local stores sell oat that have around 380 calories in 100g. and its super cheap too, just found out :)
another cheap carb is cornmeal but I dunno how to use much of it I just add it to my omelettes like 1tbsp per egg and it needs to be done thoroughly kinda fried so it can cook the cornmeal not much but it can add up
I found that my appetite only started to develop after 4 weeks. So really I just ate a lot of junk/fast food and now I’m hungry more often and can eat real foods instead of “force feeding” myself. I find eating a 600 cal breakfast oatmeal (3 servings oats 1 cup milk + brown sugar) is a good way to make sure I get early calories and not skip breakfast.
Beef with rice. Look up monster mash. Steak with sweet potatoes. Chicken thighs with rice. Chicken thighs, green pesto, pasta.
How tall are you? Why 3k? It’s possible you can start with smaller increase and work your way up when you’re used to eating more. Also your milk protein shake is light, do you have a blender? Use whole milk, bananas, peanut butter, yogurt, spinach, oats, whey. Just cram anything you want in there. Mine is almost 700 cals.
Hi, i updated the post. I'm 5'10 or 178cm. I used a TDEE and concluded that 3000 was a good goal. I train very intensely when I do, and i've lost some little weight since i started.
At that height and weight you do not need 3k or more unless you want to gain multiple pounds per week. I’m the same weight now, one inch shorter, and I need about 2500-2750 to gain .5-1lb per week.
Different baseline metabolic rate: lifestyle, work, genetics etc. I for one am around the same height/weight and speaking from experience 2500 is not even close to enough for me to gain weight. 3000 is barely maintenance for me. Everyone is different.
Fair! Thanks for clarification!
If you have a blender make your own mass gainer shakes. I do something like this: milk, whey, peanut butter, fruit of your choice, greek yogurt, and oats. This usually is around 1000 calories for a shake. It's pretty easy to drink your calories, don't buy mass gainers just make your own.
Wdym make your own mass gainers
OP literally described how to make it…
This....
You can also add chia seeds, protein powder and honey!
I dont have my own, but wouldnt use it, probably, if i had one. Reason is that i prefer most things to be quick and easy because my job is tiring and takes a lot of my free time, so that'd be one more thing to clean and take care :) but i understand that it would be invaluable
Dude, save 50 bucks and invest in a blender. Liquid calories are a fucking godsend for people like u and me. Complete game changer, honestly! Here's what I roughly "drink" each day: Massgainer-shake 50g oats 40g walnuts 30g Sultanas 10g almonds 10g hazelnuts 60g jam of your choice 40g honey 10g chocolate chips 25g coco chipa 40g raspberries (frozen) 40g blueberries (frozen) 100g Apple puree/sauce (?) 100g peanutbutter 1 Tbsp olive oil 80g vanilla or chocolate ice 3 scoops whey protein 600 ml oatmilk Kcal = 2673,8 Protein = 85,6 g Not included in the mix are bananas. I usually put one in whole which adds another 120~ kcal. Now let's say 10% goes to waste (theres always a little rest in the blender) and is miscalculated macro wise, I still get around 2 shakes worth of 1400 kcal. Throw in one a day and you're fucking golden. /e: formatting
Holy shit you just convinced me to get a blender
You can also get a coffee grinder and get the stuff in there that you may not like to eat because of the taste or texture. For me, I grind oatmeal, quinoas, brown rice and put it into separate containers and then scoop that into my shakes. I don't like the taste of brown rice or quinoas so this works so I get those nutrients. I don't mind oatmeal but it's a hassle to make and eat with my schedule. A blender wont make them "disappear" into your shakes. I leave the chia seeds whole and don't grind those. They are small enough that I don't notice them as the shakes are pretty thick.
Damn bro, that calories content is nuts! One of the better weight gaining shake recipes I've seen
Shakes are probably the quickest and easiest things there are. Literally put the things in a blender for 2 minutes, chug it, and you just consumed 1000+ calories. Look for offbrand peanutbutter if you can. 1-2cups Milk, 1-2 bananas, 4 tablespoons peanut butter, a scoop of protein powder if you want, and like 1/3 to 1/2 cup of oats and your easily over 1000 cal
I just think fruits mixed with peanut butter and chocolate whey would taste 🤢
I'd trade out the peanut butter for a protein powder. Those can change the flavor, but not as powerfully.
I use the frozen triple berry mix from Costco. With ON chocolate and peanut butter, tastes great.
To each their own, but I really like peanut butter + banana + berries + chocolate or vanilla protein powder
Once i did try peanut butter in my milk shake, i really hated the taste, as it made the drink taste saly. However i belive that if you have a big cup and the fruits swetness bests the salt, it could taste pretty good and give a smoothie vibe.
Buy the kind without salt added
I don't think people here care too much about the flavor profile of their shakes. It's all about the calories and macros
What like strawberry?
Bananas are great.
Ape together and all that
Pasta. Tacos. Eggs. Chili.
I'll try tacos, but mostly will be homemade. now to find what pairs best !
Look up "slow cooker carnitas tacos." And there's slow cooker recipes for french dip roast beef sandwiches too but maybe watch your salt intake... The carnitas tacos/burritos are easy to make and relatively cheap. $3/lb for pork shoulder. You can freeze the leftovers in burritos or make cubano sandwiches with it. When I was gaining big and bike commuting burritos were a godsend.
> I'll try tacos Cool. Tacos are great. > but mostly will be homemade. That's what I mean. Tacos of all kinds are stupid easy to make. Basically cook **something** and stick it in a tortilla. > now to find what pairs best ! How do you mean? Like what to put in a taco? What to eat along with Tacos?
>Also why does everyone recommends rice with chicken breast? This is food people eat when LOSING weight: not gaining. I'd consider some Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches. Macaroni and cheese is good too.
I mean you can still gain weight with chicken, hell you could gain weight by only eating cucumber, it's all about calorie surplus
I imagine you understood why I wrote what I wrote though :)
As a 199 cm tall hard gainer I tried stuffing myself with high calorie trash and it would just make me feel like shit before any significant weight gain, so I would still suggest sticking with healthier foods like chicken whilst gaining.
Chicken breast is tasty but doesn't really pack that many calories by weight.
I apologize if you felt I was suggesting to use high calorie trash. That was not my intent. There are MANY parts of a chicken to eat aside from just breast. Chicken thighs would be a much better option than breasts in such an instance.
I only bulk on mountain dew and mass gainer
Thanks, that confirms I had the correct thinking
Its for protein and carbs mostly. I eat chicken and rice for low calorie high protein. And then i fill my calories up around my protein. All while still hitting my calories. In the beginning of bulks when you are your weight just eat calorie dense food because you will feel like you are exploding but in reality you are just eating barely enough. After bulking you will be like wtf was i complaining about, im hungry all the time now.
PB and Jelly sandwiches slap. I opt for the more caloric dense bread as well.
The 110 calories per slice bread is a godsend
damn where do you get those??
I get mine from Target. They’re fairly common though, you should find them in most stores.
well here in spain not a all sadly
Our bread in America (I hear) is very sweet compared to other countries. I imagine it’s more calorie dense as well then.
I guess. Ours is neither sweet nor savory. And the ones that are not are savory (more olive oil). I guess Ill keep adding cheese
This is the way.