Any of you guys know any cheap foods to help bulk up an underweight powerlifter?! Diet has been at its all time poorest during last 2 weeks and can't afford to carry on like this with the british coming up.

I'm aiming to put on around 4-5 kilos in 11ish weeks!

Whey protein (350grams) with 4 pints of milk (1000kcals)

3 Super kcal flapjacks (1800kcals) contain-s whey, oats, golden syrup, brown sugar, pistachios, dessicated coconut, butter, chocolate

Now as this is more of a snacking sort of thing i plan on taking, what actual FOODS do you guys think are great at getting in the kcals and are not OVERLY expensive?

Any help would be appreciated.

you need dense foods...casava is nice when baked or fried in coconut oil, loafs of real wholemean grain bread...tuna tins.....

steak mince ~ £4 per Kilo.

asda do really cheap mince. about £1 for a packet (dont know how much weight)

Go to the local butchers and see what he can do you cheap....just go in and ask what he can selly you.

Get a job

Pasta is always really cheap as are potato's.

Mince is another good choice and butchers mince is probably priced similar to supermarket and would be superior as they'll generally sell you steak mince and not beef mince if that makes sence. If they do eggs then they will be cheaper too.

Home made burgers, meat balls in spag bol, chilli con, that kinda thing.

Turkey is always cheaper than chicken but blander.

Cans of coconut milk offer a hell of a lot of calories for few pennies.

Full-fat milk also.

thanks for the tips guys

i'm going to aim for around 5000kcals+ or so a day and see how things go.

Plan is to make sure i have about a kilo of meat a day (mince, chicken etc)
dishes including, chili con carne, spag bol, lasagne, spicy beef burgers and meatbals i can make with them, enchiladas, curry, beef stews.. try and get some casava in some of dishes too. will get some eggs on case also
this covers absolute minimum 1500kcals

400ml coconut milk 660kcals

1350kcals from protein shakes with milk

1800kcals from my bad boy flapjacks..lol

pasta and coconut milk...now theres a meal with calories lol.....you could easily clear 900cals with both servings....

Oat cakes and peanut butter.

Walnuts to saturate ALA levels...plenty of magnesium and calories too.

went on big shop today! Does this look better? having looked at it i realised i need some veg really though LOL
Couldnt find casava kp and people in morrisons dont even know what it is

Now this is what i have in my kitchen, should be a big improvement, 6kilos here i come lol

3kilos of steak mince
1.6 kilo of rump steak tenner from butchers
2.3kilos of gammon (7 quid from butchers, would be rude not too...)
Mixed dried fruit
Dried apricots
2bags seasoned curly fries yummm lol
potatoes
tomato puree
milk
cheese
beef stock
carrots
curry pastes
coconut milk (buying this later today)
creamed coconut for currys
dessicated coconut for flapjacks
butter for flapjacks
oats for flapjacks
brown sugar for flapjacks
pistachios for flapjacks
golden syrup for flapjacks
chocolate for flapjacks
pasta
lasange sheets
rice
chopped tomoatoes
fresh bread
millions of spices/herbs lol
12 'very large' eggs
nesquik powder to flavour my whey
5kg unflavoured whey coming on monday

think thats it lollll

found some walnut oil orinoco

mate if you ate my diet for a month you'd put on 10kg. Good start though, beef mince is a great way to get good, cheap cals.

Karlos wrote:mate if you ate my diet for a month you'd put on 10kg. Good start though, beef mince is a great way to get good, cheap cals.

do one for him?....brief outline?.....im being serious......Id agree hell pack on the weight..just needs to manipulate his insulin levels right...

well the way things look right now i should be consuming the bare MINIMUM of 5000kcals a day, good start surely?

actually just worked it out. It should work at about 6000kcals a day and potentially more. That will CERTAINLY be enough for me, considering i weighed 76.3k this morning!

Aim to get to 82k morning weight for july 11th at weigh in, obviously i will get slightly more increased water weight when i start taking creatine but shudnt be too much.

You'll do it a month with those calorie levels mate, easy

Tbh, i see no point in eating that much You will just gain alot of fat really quickly. Obviously calories should be in surplus but more like 4000...not 6k!

lol KP, me write him a diet? i dont want to patronise the boy, he probably knows as much as me!

6000 kcals?! Jesus. That's some good eating!

Karlos wrote:Tbh, i see no point in eating that much You will just gain alot of fat really quickly. Obviously calories should be in surplus but more like 4000...not 6k!

lol KP, me write him a diet? i dont want to patronise the boy, he probably knows as much as me!

Is it just me or was the bit in bold funny ha-ha

hehe did the 'probably' make me sound abit condescending?

ash fletcher wrote:went on big shop today! Does this look better? having looked at it i realised i need some veg really though LOL
Couldnt find casava kp and people in morrisons dont even know what it is

Now this is what i have in my kitchen, should be a big improvement, 6kilos here i come lol

3kilos of steak mince
1.6 kilo of rump steak tenner from butchers
2.3kilos of gammon (7 quid from butchers, would be rude not too...)
Mixed dried fruit
Dried apricots
2bags seasoned curly fries yummm lol
potatoes
tomato puree
milk
cheese
beef stock
carrots
curry pastes
coconut milk (buying this later today)
creamed coconut for currys
dessicated coconut for flapjacks
butter for flapjacks
oats for flapjacks
brown sugar for flapjacks
pistachios for flapjacks
golden syrup for flapjacks
chocolate for flapjacks
pasta
lasange sheets
rice
chopped tomoatoes
fresh bread
millions of spices/herbs lol
12 'very large' eggs
nesquik powder to flavour my whey
5kg unflavoured whey coming on monday

think thats it lollll

found some walnut oil orinoco

You might want to save that for cooking Ash, as unless you get a udo's blend, or the flora flax oil, then everything else is useless and detrimental to health. The big caveat to that is extra virgin olive oil, which should only be considered if it's in a dark glass bottle to protect the oil from light. You can't expect to pay less than £7 for a good EVOI. Then it should only be used at the end of light frying, just to coat the food..not to 'cook' it as such. Butter is the best option for frying....

Even with Walnuts, you should ideally go for shelled. Fats...man, it's such a mindfield of a topic! Have recently been re-reading 'fats that heal, fats that kill' by udo, and apart from being such a dense book, there are some very good chapters on oils and how they're processed etc. It makes you wonder how 99% of most oils can be sold as safe.

Apart from that, looks like you've got a fun 11 wks ahead of you .

Udo Erasmus book (fats that heal, fats that kill) is full of good info. I haven't read it cover to cover but sometimes use it as a reference. As Orinoco says, the book highlights just how much lipids can be affected nutritionally by the way they are extracted/prepared/stored... quite eye opening

Pete, would you have time to put together a rough overview as a sticky on some of the more common fats we use based on the comment you've made.

Alex wrote:Pete, would you have time to put together a rough overview as a sticky on some of the more common fats we use based on the comment you've made.

This would be great