“So man, I want to get a bit bigger. What foods should I eat?”
I tell him to make a habit of eating ground beef, to which he balks, instantaneously going “what about pulled pork”.
“Dude, if pulled pork is the meat you’ll eat the hell out of, then eat a bunch of pulled pork.”
The dude who recently thanked me, initially he balked at the idea of dairy, claiming lactose intolerance, but months later ran with my advice as a guideline, and it worked.
I’d told him to switch lean chicken for fattier beef, to make raw egg shakes, and to simplify cooking via such as a crock pot. Months later he took my advice, didn’t do it exact, but treating it as a guideline had been cooking beef & egg fried rice in big batches nightly, eating off it for dinner, breakfast, and lunch, then the next night cooking the next batch.
Bulking diets?
They don’t need to be perfect, or rigidly written, they just need to be useable.
A fatty protein source is your main ingredient, the exact source is irrelevant.
Initially for me it was drinking whole milk, and flabbergasting family as to how much of everything and anything I’d eat.
As I get more experience my primary is becoming ground beef, but if that gets too costly I’d readily switch to copious quantities of eggs, and go back to crock pots of chicken dark meat.
That one buddy it’s likely to be pulled pork.
One buddy of mine used frozen meatballs for his first hard bulk.
The dude who thanked me took my advice of beef and eggs with a carb, just in a different prep style than I do. I make cheeseburgers and raw egg shakes, he stir fries the combined ingredients.
As long as you get decent nutrition, and can eat a heck of a lot of it, it’s fair game as a bulking food.
Eating at an eastern european friend’s house as a child introduced me to kielbasa. I love that stuff, and possibly would choose it over beef.
I guarantee over in the former soviet block this conversation is being had in cyrillic, the bigger older dude being like “Igor you no like kielbasa? Then eat the cheap dark meat from chicken if that’s what you’ll eat.”
Somewhere in india an older kushti is going “then eat the garbanzo beans in flour form, and add sugar to your milk”.
It’s a universal thing. What you’re willing to do will be what works for you.
What you eat to bulk isn’t set in stone. Certain foods are advantageous, but as long as it’s somewhat nutritious and something you’ll eat in quantity/bulk for bulking it’s a go.
Persistence & Tenacity