Since it’s seasonal apple cider.
And a bit of other stuff that sounds good in addition.
It’s good nutritious food, really simple, enjoyable, affordable, and I’m able to cook as little as twice a week while having dinner ready to eat every evening.
The box may say heart healthy, but the more breakfast cereal one consumes over their lifetime the higher and higher their odds of heart attack, and diabetes are pushed.
That’s what my own two eyes have seen.
Slopping cereal = heart attack and/or diabetes. And you don’t even enjoy eating it as you’re prepping for health problems.
I don’t see that with eggs. Most are too scared of them. And got forbid they’re drank raw.
Real food is villianized, yet it’s all there at the grocery store, you’re free to purchase either or.
But to take the step, to eat real food, you’ve got to have an independent mind, and be fearless.
The fearful and conformist slop down soggy cereal.
(↑slogan/™ right there)
Those who see, who think, they’ll act – enjoying red meat, eggs, milk, shopping mostly the peripheral of the grocery store.
You clearly see one’s food choices playing out in direct correlation not only to their physiques, but to their personalities as well.
Look at the history of meat eating, access to meat, and who ate grain.
The barrier to meat is still there, but instead of butting up against the penalty of death for poaching one of the king’s deer, you now butt up against propaganda and lies everywhere about how bad meat is for you.
Smarts allow for dietary freedom.
Stupidity is the root cause of terrible dietary choices.
Brawndo – it’s got electrolytes.
But saturated fat has vitality.
Eating cereal is this smart! It’s heart healthy!
Carbs aren’t evil, but a diet of naught but grain sure ain’t ideal.
No one ever went wrong with meat, potatoes, vegetables. Past that is often calories, but not nutrition.
There’s two simple things I’ve noticed will have you to age well :
•No television
•Eating red meat, eggs, full fat dairy – saturated fat
It’s that simple to age well.
Don’t watch television. Do eat saturated fat.
Don’t dumb yourself down in front of a screen, and don’t starve yourself of the nutrition you need.
Television dumbs you down. The application year after year truly makes you stupid.
Hormone production and brain function both are tied to the consumption of saturated fats, animal fats, red meat, eggs, dairy.
When you dumb yourself down with television, and starve yourself of the vital nutrition you need from animal fat, the two compound to create an aged idiot, starved of brain function, and without a healthy body.
The modern world kills humanity.
Don’t live by it’s suggestions, it’s norms, and you shall truly live.
Every second in front of the television is always better spent elsewhere.
As far as eating, trust your gut and instinct, you know inside you that saturated fat is what you need for health, not grains, not low fat.
There’s a reason the smart youth gets angry watching television, just as his favorite foods are whatever he can get his hands on with saturated fat present.
If you’re like me, you stomach oats better uncooked than cooked.
They’re a solid ingredient for raw egg shakes, and in homemade weight gainers.
But as far as porridge is concerned I’d instead have grits, while staying far away from cream of wheat.
I’ve seen online that I’m not the only one who doesn’t stomach oats particularly well when they’re cooked.
Many just put them as is into their shakes.
I’ll do this myself when I want to up the carb content of an egg shake.
I’ve come across some just pouring in a bit of water so as to be able to quickly power them down.
I’ve seen it suggested with warm water online, though in person I’ve seen my buddy do this with room temperature water many a time.
I eat oats in a different way.
I started doing this making quick dinners for myself after having lifted while in high school.
16 years old, it was an idea tried on a whim that I ended up liking.
At various points in my life fried eggs have been a dietary staple,
where a quarter if not half of my meals will end up having eggs in them.
Like after the high school weight room junior year.
Last night I cooked what I did back in high school.
I took six eggs, and stretched them.
Cracking them into the bowl, I grabbed the container of oats and a measuring cup.
½ cup oats : 6 eggs being the ratio I found best.
Having dumped the oats into the bowl with the eggs, I then dumped in spices, grabbed a spoon, and stirred it all around.
Oats are a grain. After frying this up it reminds me moreso of a bread made of egg and oats in taste than of fried eggs.
I’ve always liked the consistency.
Whatever odd meat is on hand will go into the pan with it.
It was two hotdogs this time, whereas in high school it was a can of tuna or sale price pepperoni.
Any meat will do.
As alluded to above I came up with this as a high schooler wondering how the consistency would turn out after having thought to do so as a way to add carbs to an otherwise protein and fat only meal.
When you’re not paying particular attention to macros this an enjoyable, clean, mixed macro meal.
•Eggs
•Oats
•Spices
With the options of meat, cheese, condiments, and whatever else you’d add to an egg dish.
“I’m trying to gain weight. I’m doing cheat meals twice a week.”
“Dude, you’re a twenty year old fit middleweight. Your metabolism is likely insane. You should be doing a cheat meal or two daily.”
“I don’t think I can even afford to eat out daily.”
That’s the point in the conversation where my mind was blown.
Since he’s relatively lean (solid 4 pack/soft 6 pack), 20 YEARS OLD, and eats mostly clean in bird like amounts/pigeon portions he’s at a spot where force feeding would be great. He’d stop floating around the 155lb mark, and would look monstrous just 15lbs heavier.
High metabolism, good leanness, and a bunch of good insertion points on his upper body.
He could eat up 25-30lbs to 180-185lbs, and not put on much if any fat.
I’ve seen it before with other kids similar in height/weight/metabolism.
I gave him the advice “step 1 : raw egg shakes”, he balked a bit at the idea of the taste, to which I explained “that’s why you add the ice cream, for enjoyable taste”.
You don’t have to drink eggs ala rocky. But you should be drinking eggs daily in these circumstances.
He wants an exact recipe while I’m telling him the guidelines.
•heavy cream and/or milk
•2-8 eggs (I then tell him to use 4)
•ice cream – pick your flavor
•pb, banana, whatever else you want that passes the “does it blend” test
He told me the prices of each cheat meal. I looked at him, and told him “for each of those meals you could’ve got 3lbs of beef and 2lbs of rice”.
He claims he doesn’t know how to cook beef. Dude, figure it out.
Doesn’t like rice. Ok, use something else. Ramen is the same cost.
All these skinny college kids are undereating and overthinking.
That’s a bad combo for gaining weight.
To bulk : stop undereating and overthinking, and instead overeat and underthink.
Stop overthinking, eat big, and be awesome instead.
100% success rate. You’ll get bigger.
We talked about the crockpot some, he has one, and just listened while I told him if cooking is such an insurmountable task to just drop large amounts of meat and potatoes into that. The meat will taste better browned in a pan, but you don’t have to do that.
A lot of young dudes want to gain weight but hamstring themselves by :
•not eating enough, when they need to force feed for a little
•trying to pay to eat out all the time, when they need to go to the grocery store and scare the cashier with how much eggs, beef, and milk they buy – then learning to cook their hauls.
I’ve had a petite latina cashier use my massive haul of peanut butter and tuna as the starting point to flirt with me. I was stocking up during a sale – a few weeks of the accessories to the 50 packs of ramen I bought roughly every ten days.
My buddy was well known at one store for buying eggs daily, and at a different store for the same and sweet potatoes.
You want your groceries to shock the cashier, and not because all you have is condoms and oreos.
(That one was related to me by a coworker.)
When I wanted to gain weight bad at 17 I spent the summer every day eating
At my parent’s :
•two meals my mom made
•breaded chicken, waffles, and greek yogurt for breakfast
•half a frozen walmart pizza
•whole milk – gomad or more(up to 11 gallons a week)
At my aunt’s :
•3-6 twinkies/hostess/ring ding type things
•a real meal sometimes
•drinking their 1%/skim milk (not factored into the gomad, the above milk numbers meant milk, not white water)
•drinking powdered pink lemonade (that may have been no calorie, but I’d wash down Twinkies with it, and basically kept my glass filled as long as I was there)
This is one day, every day at home (obviously), and 4-5 days a week at my aunt’s in addition.
6500 calories daily, almost never less, occasionally more, for an entire summer.
If you’re not gaining weight, you’re not eating enough.
•Eggs
•Ground Beef
•Milk
Go to the grocery store and learn to cook.
Getting big isn’t complicated.
Eat more, think less.
Take A Cue From 1950s Bodybuilders – Eggs & Milk :
In a time where obesity wasn’t common, where the majority were thin or lean, the build that stood out was the strong bulky one.
That was what those trying to gain size, the 1950s bodybuilders, were going for.
Bulky.
Though far less people went to the gym, the percentage getting results was higher on average.
More of those trying to bulk were able to do so. There was a higher success rate.
A better percentage of 98lb weaklings wanting change got over 200lbs.
What was the difference between now, and those wanting the same 50-70 years ago?
There is more gym access now.
That’s in our favor, in favor of 2020.
Food? Maybe better quality back then, though I’m not convinced, as frankenfoods, margerine, and tv dinners were all coming in style.
It was the start of the postwar food abundance boom. The microwave had been invented.
I’m betting calories were cheap just as they are now.
Then and now are roughly on par for food, the largest pro for 1950 vs 2020 here is that it’s pre 80s, pre 90s, there weren’t a few decades of scare tactics over eggs, bacon, saturated fat, red meat, butter, whole milk, and cholesterol.
Whole milk and eggs are the most cost effective nutrition to be had.
It was the same back then.
They weren’t scared of milk and eggs.
They ate and drank much of both.
That’s the difference.
Hardgainers don’t eat a dozen eggs a day. They don’t drink 10 gallons of milk a week.
Yeah, you may put on fat, but the rapidity of muscle built negates this every time as those unwilling to do this are still in the 160s at 6′, while you made it up to 253 at 17.
Milk is convenient. $3 a gallon tops, and not only in every grocery store, but in every gas station.
A ½ gallon is always at a gas station somewhere, minutes away, to be had for maybe two bucks and a quarter. That’s makes for a very solid meal on the go, assuming you’re not the type to fret macros.
Eggs are like chicken.
Cheap cheap cheap.
Wherever you are $2 a dozen, probably less.
For THE superfood.
At worst costs, a gallon of milk, and a dozen eggs is $5 for 3200 calories, and 200g protein.
That’s a solid base, and for many enough to be the whole diet.
However if bulk is what you’re going for spend a few more dollars a day and get over 5000 calories.
Eat like a 1950s bodybuilder for bulk. They knew what they were doing.
I can’t think of coming across a single person who feeds them as such.
You won’t put a bowl of milk down for tabby, but you’ll give kibbles to both tabby and sparky?
It strikes me as odd.
And it’s why you see so many health issues in house pets.
Instead of kibbles, instead of formulated canned pet food…why not just feed them meat?
Cook up a big batch of chicken once or twice a week to feed them throughout the week.
Throw in small amounts of red meat, it can be raw, they’re carnivores, they eat meat raw.
Come to think of it, you probably don’t need to cook the chicken for pets.
Not only would meat likely not cost any more than kibbles, but you’ll actually have healthy pets.
Feed the dog a proper amount.
Like the spartans with their youth, leave the cat somewhat hungry.
This is because you want it catching, killing, and making offerings of all sorts of small creatures.
I’ve observed two sibling cats.
One hunted, and was possessive of it’s kibbles, though barely touching them.
The other ate kibbles greedily, though otherwise spent most hours hidden under the bed, and would suffer highly if it had taken so much as a single kibble from the other’s bowl.
He’d try to sneak them. He’d even do so when the other was out hunting. I don’t believe the other ever didn’t notice, never failing to punish the transgression.
Some cats, at least, are apex predators.
I could see them running the earth, though verily they were domesticated (somewhat), the house cat’s lack of mass (bred out of them) being what keeps it from taking over.
Though not for lack of trying.
At my grandfather’s house I always thought it would be awesome to instead of tossing the cat’s bird/mouse/squirrel offering to instead share of the meat, to pan fry up what the cat dropped at your foot with fierce attention grabbing “look at what I have done” warrior meowing, and eat it.
It’s meat. The cat thinks highly enough of you to share. It would like you even better if you gave it meat instead of grain mixed with cow hoof, chicken beak, and whatever other animal byproducts are deemed pet food grade, a thing similar, though slightly better in quality as compared to school, fast food, and prison grade meat product.
People make the same bad food choices as they force upon their pets.
Teenagers who are willing to get kinda fat while lifting big and eating big end up the biggest and strongest dudes around.
It’s not pretty, but if you’re around 6′, training hard, you can get to the 250+ area, and build more muscle by college graduation age, than the dudes who never do this ever will.
There are countless examples to be found online of those getting to around 300lbs, then looking crazy at around 220lbs.
Without that dirty bulk they’d never even get to 220lbs.
Having walked around at about 250 most of the time from 17 onwards, I’m confident I’d have abs at 220.
There’s a legion of 160lbers caught up in this. They may have visible abs, but they’re never gonna do so at 220+.
I knew a kid who benched 500+, and first hit 500 at 19 or 20 years old.
You should have seen him eat!
I remember him eating donuts during his 5-10 minute rest periods, and generally would bring a big ass bag of mcdonalds in with him ready to go for a postworkout meal complete with oreos.
This is probably the most extreme and successful example I’ve seen of a young man dirty bulking. Kid was 5’8″ at best, naturally super stocky (some have made the steroid argument for many at this particular gym, though that takes away from the goldeness of the principles of this example), and ate more calories than I’ve ever seen a person eat before or since.
8000 calories daily on average isn’t hard to believe here.
This factors in that at 17 for half the summer I averaged about 7000 calories when I first got past 250, and that my buddy, four years younger than I, hit about the same in calories and bodyweight (“dude, we both dirty bulked to 253 at 17”) during his dirty bulk just before his high school graduation.
Sumo wrestlers are said to carry more muscle than pro bodybuilders.
I believe the leanness is the bigger effect of going past genetic potential with ped use.
A natural willing to carry some bodyfat is capable of carrying more muscle than what most say is possible.
Nothing like being a natural with more lean body mass than military weight regs, and the weight classes you wrestled at (which are normal healthy athletic adult sizes).
Being willing to carry bodyfat puts an entirely different, much larger number to the so called genetic limitations.
The ceiling is raised very far.
Those who believe in the natty lean body massage standards as found online (limitations not to be mentioned here) as their personal excuse to suck cried.
Those who dirty bulked flourished.
Sumo bulking/dirty bulking is the fastest way to get swole.
If this alone is so anabolic, just how much muscle could be gained with gear on the same massive eating protocols?
We all know the picture of off season Lee Priest.
Chow down
Did you know he’s only 5’4″?
By eating he therefore has significant mass.
You up your calories and you’ll find out how anabolic eating can be.
I’m often asked how to get bigger.
I’ll give solid advice, and frankly since it’s usually ignored by the asker (askee?) I don’t expect them to actually make progress.
During the corona lockdown one kid actually implemented the advice I’d given him, ran with it, and when the gym reopened shook my hand with a thank you. I was racking my brain, then remembered that I’d given him advice fully six months prior.
When a kid approaches you on the gym floor for advice, and the advice will always boil down to “train with effort, eat more” ; it’s like 99% of humanity on the spot becomes lactose intolerant!
There’s something weird in the air when all these guys are pickier eaters than girls, and can’t find it in themselves to shovel down nutritious calories.
Gluttony is consider a sin.
Why? Because overeating is enjoyable, it’s not hard to go too far with it!
You’d think in a land with huge obesity statistics some of that eating ability would transfer by osmosis or something to younger gym going dudes from nothing more than close contact in the wild with the people of walmart.
It’s a fairly open secret that getting big is big calories and enough nutrition.
I’ve met a lot of lean athletic teenage athletes who fell hard for the mainstream stock advice and are eating clean, while not putting on any size.
Every teenager I’ve seen get big eats fairly dirty.
Even higher level bodybuilders who eat clean mostly, their cheat meals are something to behold creating equal parts wonder, fear, and excitement over the coming tip amongst the staff at brazilian steakhouses and sushi places everywhere if I’m remembering correctly the norm amongst bodybuilder taste buds.
You eat a lot and you’re going to build muscle.
You eat like a bird and you’re gonna stay lean forever – run with the premise that no lean bulking has ever happened.
Eat up.
You want to grow big?
Become anabolic – try eating.
Occasionally I’ll drink a ginger beer from a glass bottle medicinally. It’s a great way to clear the sinuses.
In the past I’d buy generic cream soda or root beer, as something fairly regularly.
I remember at 20/21 doing this as a way to keep calories up. 800 calories in a 69¢ or 79¢ (depends on which store, and public service announcement : some generic root beer may in fact be battery acid) 2L is 1000+ calories per dollar and very easy to consume.
I had went from 235 to under 215 over six months of improv training and what averaged out to $5/day grocery costs.
(Chicken or pork stew with potatoes over ramen or rice, tuna with ramen, milk, generic soda, that’s easily 80%+ of calories right there.)
Growing up my mom would get me the four packs of made with sugar glass bottled cream soda or root beer as a present for birthdays and Christmas.
When this happens I’ll drink them.
Occasionally I’ll be given a 20oz pepsi or buy a generic 20oz of something. Me drinking these is rarer and rarer.
Last summer I really started to notice that drinking high fructose corn syrup bothers me.
For this reason I pay the extra 10¢ to drink gatorade instead of powerade.
Ginger ale at work was an exception to the noticable negatives of hfcs, and my experience with ginger ale in the heat mixed with the bad reaction to high fructose corn syrup was part of what initially got me to start using ginger beers.
Drinking soda with hfcs?
I often get headaches, and can sense that I’m mentally slowing down.
An obese and dumb nation is hydrated on hfcs. It’s obvious.
I had also admitted to treating 2L of cream soda, pepsi/cherry pepsi, and root beer as if they were a different type of bottle, sitting there at weird hours hitting the bottle a liter plus at a time.
In a bad mood, at an hour I should be sleeping at, and sipping a bottle…what’s that remind you of?
Aside from the ginger beers (~0-2 a week) I haven’t had soda for months.
It strikes me as not being worth it.
I see soda drinking as self harm.
The pinnacle of that was doing the aforementioned alcoholic like behavior with a 2l of generic grape soda a couple/few years back.
Whenever it was I had a hfcs soda last, I didn’t really enjoy it.
(It was a likely 20oz root beer, I passed on a cotton candy one the other day.)
I’m not completely cold turkey on this, I’ll get a 20oz generic (orange I still seem to enjoy) to go with the meal if I’m truly craving it, but an old staple craving was cream soda and mozzarella sticks. I had this craving about a week ago.
I fought the craving for a few days as I did not see the soda being worth it, eventually just getting the mozzarella sticks having stood in front of the generic 2L thinking “nah”, laughing that I was saying no to something on sale that I was at least in theory craving when only a couple years ago I’d be happy to save the 10¢.
Now it’s not like I was some corn syrup weened american. My “heavy” periods of drinking soda (aside from 20/21) involve weeks, even months at a time without soda.
In SoCal two years back I had to think if I even had any soda.
Yes, I did. Only at restaurants, and to try two brands of apple soda, one a 20oz bottle, and one hecho en mexico in either 1L or 1.5L size.
Now whereas many will get a cold soda in a gas station or as impulse purchase in the grocery line, I tend to get milks instead.
At work, to props from a coworker, I’ve instead of anything sugary or caffeinated, when a gatorade is $2.50, for about a quarter more I’ve downed a half gallon of milk instead.
I’ve said this before, but in a pinch, on the road milk is available, generally your best option for calories.
It’ll hydrate you, and actually is nutritious.
Why exactly do people drink copious quantities of soda?
