I was working on bulking awhile back but it got really expensive. Any thoughts on bulking on a budget?
>>36107882
Depends on where you live and what is cheap. Chicken breast, Extra lean ground chicken and beef, and pork loin chops are usually cheap everywhere. Sometimes fish is cheap (especially when frozen). Eggs are dirt cheap and a bulking staple.
What country are you from OP?
What is your budget for food a week?
>>36107882
US, I try to keep it around 75/week. When I was actively trying it was over 100/week.
>>36107882
what are the cheapest vegetables?\
il get my calories with pasta rice and potatos, just need to know what vegetables are good and cheap as fuck
>>36107882
Potatos and rice in bulk. I can get a 10lbs bag of potatoes at my local grocery for about 3 dollars. Sometimes less if it's on special.
Honey and peanut butter are great ways to increase calories as well and can be bought in bulk. Just avoid name brand. For protein you just have to snipe some deals and eat whatever is on special that week.
>>36107892
Chicken breast is like $15 a kilo where I live I've been wondering for a while is that average?
>>36107961
It's cheap where I live if you buy it directly from the butcher, but if the breast is too expensive, other cuts from chicken might be cheaper. Carbs and veggies are easy to eat cheap, it's protein that is tricky. My grocery store has a clearance section for meat, and I always pilfer that. Unless it's disgustingly fatty meat, it's hard to go wrong. If you're really on a budget, ground meat is probably your cheapest bet, especially in bulk. Just make it into patties. Lean or extra lean shouldn't be more expensive unless your store is run by greedy gypos.
>>36107882
Just buy some fucking rice with beans and eat a shit ton of it. They're cheap as fuck
huehue btw
peanut butter is cheap
>>36107882
Tons of plant-based starches. Grains like oatmeal, grits, farina. Beans, lentils, etc. As much of this as you can eat in a single sitting twice a day.
Healthy fats, peanut butter, olive oil, some butter. Use these to make the starches easier to kick back, along with fresh fruit, or dried fruit without too much added sugar.
Then add protein, this should be not that much food. Equivalent of like 1g / lb. At 190lb that's like 8oz chicken, 3 scoops whey protein.
>>36107920
all of them, basically
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>>36108021
nigger broccoli is like 1,50 per kg. i could easily eat that every day. which adds up to like 10 euro a week just for 1 vegetable.
i kinda like carrots since they are cheap snack food but i they dont have that much nutrition and actually contain a lot of sugar (for a vegetable).
Bread: 80c/kg -> 3000kcal
Butter: 2€/500g -> 3500kcal
Ham/Baloney: €2,50/400g -> 1200kcal
that's < 3€ per day at 400kcal
>>36108063
Frozen veggies man super cheap
Bulking is cheaper than cutting.
>>36108076
Ham is unhealthy as fuck tho. Go for chicken like 200-300 gram a day isn't expensive.
What about oats 78c /kg = 3890kcal of which 170 grams of proteins.
>>36108082
also no nutrition anymore
fuck man why do company’s have to be so shitty with healthy food.
>>36108063
>10 euro a week
>expensive
Maybe you shouldn't be concerned with fitness as much as finding a reliable source of income you cheap bastard.
>>36108108
how long does baked chicken last in the fridge ?
also i am actually looking for protein sources. i only want to eat 1 thigh and drumstick a day. what else is cheap and high in cals?
should i start looking into fish ?
>>36108131
Fish depends on location, if you live near the sea it might be cheap, else it isn't.
Chicken lasts 3 or 4 days when cooked in the fridge, but you can put it in the freezer and keep it for weeks or months..
>>36108108
I actually meant baloney/bologna, which is healthy as far as I can tell
>>36108280
i have bad news for you boyo
>>36107882
Chicken liver.
Beef liver.
Beef heart.
Chicken stomac.
Chicken feet.
Enjoy gains.
>>36108076
>>36108280
>>36108330
Fuck that. Buy this. 360g 2€
Search for something like this in your country
>>36108429
Its turkey btw
>>36108118
no nutrition ? is this a meme ?
>>36108409
how are hearths ?
how do you eat your livers? i tried it once and the taste wasnt bad but it felt soooo bad in my mouth
>>36108449
>frozen veggys have more then 40% of their original health value
might as well eat rice
>>36108461
i want solid proof for this, until then, it's a meme
>>36108502
Frozen veggies : Fresh picked when they are at their most nutrient stages, however they are boiled first and lose some vitamin b and c during that process. They are flash frozen and retain high nutrient content.
"Fresh": are picked before they reach their "ready" stage, aka the most nutrient one. (picked before fully ripe). These fruits and veggies will never have the highest possible health value.
Find a good brand of frozen veggies anon.
You should already be taking vitamins/supplements anyway. Pick up some vitamin C.
>>36108619
>>36108502
>>36108461
Forgot link
http://www.eatingwell.com/nutrition_health/nutrition_news_information/fresh_vs_frozen_vegetables_are_we_giving_up_nutrition_fo
>>36108619
holy fuck what. my parents always taught me i should get fresh over frozen as much as possible.
what is this new world you have opened.
time to go browse the frozen veggy part of my supermarket for new snack foods.
also wait. does this mean that frozen spinach is great ? I love that shit with potatos and chicken fat
>>36108666
Chicken fat?? what the fuck homeboy.
I've never tried frozen spinach. I prefer just buying a huge fresh tub of it personally.
But it wouldn't hurt to try it. I eat raw spinach, not cooked, so idk what it would be like.
Most people followed the fresh veggie bandwagon, and pass it on without actually looking anything up.
>>36108666
If you're going to cook the frozen spinach then frozen is exactly the same as fresh apart from it keeps for months
Chicken breast is like $2 a pound, anon. And rice is cheap as fuck.
Eggs are cheap as fuck, and lunch meat and bread are not expensive either.
>>36108711
yeah after i am done using the oven for my wholechicken/chicken wings/ thighs. i just take the fat and use that as gravy.
>>36107961
Just buy whole chickens, roast as desired and chop to pieces. Cheapest possible way of buying chicken
>>36108721
They say to microwave or steam frozen veggies so that they don't lose their nutrient value.
If you boil you're going to lose it.
>>36108737
buying chicken quarter legs is cheaper (and tastier)
especially if you can find a market that sells them in 5 kilo bulks
>>36108210
How do you cook chicken in the fridge?
>>36108738
really? i boiling that bad? i dont usually boil that long because i still want something to chew on but still.
>>36108738
Not if you make a shake from the boiled spinach water
>>36108745
please anon, just please.
what could he have meant in this context?
>>36108745
Physically impossible.. You need a heat source of some kind. Hope this help.
>>36108740
I've found that whole chicken are cheaper, I can pick up who chickens about £2.50 a kg, where as the cheapest quarters I can find are about £1.40 for 250g
>>36107961
is $15 a kilo average?
It's so retardedly expensive that makes me angry.
Here in Barcelona I buy it for 4.90€/kg. To be honest I have 4 kg of that and also 3kg of salmon(7€/kg)in the freezer lmao
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>>36108758
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/boiling-vegetables-deplete-nutritional-value-1438.html
I mean yeah if you use the same water to make a shake I don't really see a problem.
You could incorporate it somehow to make a broth.
>>36107882
>ctrl+f mcdonalds
>0 of 0
For the best cheap dirty bulk food, its the double cheeseburger from McDonalds. Think about it; why are Americans stereotypically known for being fat? It's the cheap fast food.
>>36108784
well here its 3,30 euro a kg for whole and 2,75 euro for the quarter legs
and per kg, quarter leg will give more meat/protein.
>>36108771
Thanks, I was hoping for some fridge-oven combi, seems like something lazy amerifats would come up with
>>36108797
should i let beans/ lentils sprout ?
This varies hugely from place to place, so I'll just list what is cheap in many places.
Meat: fish (especially whIte fish and sardines), chicken with the skin and bones, fatty pork, ground beef, organ meats.
Veggies and fruit: potatoes, gourds, carrots, corn, peanuts, apples, bananas, and whatever is in season.
Grains and legumes: lentils (green or red), beans (there's tons of kinds, all cheap. I like pinto best), rice, flour for making bread, premade bread, oats, corn meal, pasta.
Seriously, you need to just set aside like two hours and take notes on what's cheap and high calorie at your store if you're poor. My usual go to bulking foods are the following, to give you an idea:
Meat: pig feet, cow feet, chicken gizzards, bacon ends, pork shoulder, whole chicken.
Veggies and fruit: pineapple, mushrooms, collared greens, and corn.
Grains and legumes: black and pinto beans, bread from my bakery, white rice, oats.
>>36107882
peanuts
>>36108823
http://www.theleangreenbean.com/how-to-sprout-lentils/
Actually, yes.
A quick google search shows this to actually be pretty beneficial.
Secret bulking tech. Tell noone.
>>36108842
Lentils are amazing. Red lentils even more so, but they're between $2-3 extra at my local groceries.
>>36108995
i have the opposite opinion. i find the mush red lentils really bad in comparison to the solid green once
The cheapest calories on the planet come from rice. The cheapest protein is usually chicken breast (though animal organs also work if you dont mind them). For veggies just get massive bags frozen. I spend maybe 6 dollars a day eating 4000 kcal and 5 servings of veggies.
Rice
Oats
Milk
Seeds
Whey
Chicken
>>36110433
What seeds do you eat and how much do you generally spend? Mixed nuts are getting pretty expensive.
>>36110443
Depends where you live really, shit like pumpkin seeds are cheap where I live, but cashews are pricey.
>>36107882
Lentils, eggs, swole milk, oats, whole chickens, spring sausage, potatoes. All good shit, nutritious and calorie dense.
