bulking on a budget

JC said:bin the chicken breasts...get chicken quarters. half the price, and more calorie dense given the fat content

gammon is cheap and full of calories/protein

JC said:bin the chicken breasts...get chicken quarters. half the price, and more calorie dense given the fat content

gammon is cheap and full of calories/protein

Funky_monkey said:
Agreed. I'm not on a massively tight budget (by no means am I minted) but I still don't buy just chicken breasts. I just buy a whole chicken and chop it into 8. Top half and bottom half (just below where the wings end) then quarter it. Takes 5 minutes from start to finish including cleaning out the inside, and you get a whole chicken for the price of 2-3 breasts.
Morrissons almost always do cheap boneless pork loin/shoulder. Chop an apple and an onion, put the pork on top, add some seasoning then cover in foil and leave it in the oven at around 190-200c for about 1.5 hours.
I also buy bit bags of oats, grind it in the blender then add milk and blend again.
Jacket potatoes are another cheap bulking meal, and easy as fk to make. i just put it in the oven for a bit over an hour, could have some pork/chicken with it.
I make relatively cheap burgers too - mince, onion, parsley, egg, salt and pepper, and I add about 50g oats as well as 1-2 slices of bread crumbled/very finely diced. From 1lb of mince, I manage to get 7 quarter pounders.

Funky_monkey said:
Agreed. I'm not on a massively tight budget (by no means am I minted) but I still don't buy just chicken breasts. I just buy a whole chicken and chop it into 8. Top half and bottom half (just below where the wings end) then quarter it. Takes 5 minutes from start to finish including cleaning out the inside, and you get a whole chicken for the price of 2-3 breasts.
Morrissons almost always do cheap boneless pork loin/shoulder. Chop an apple and an onion, put the pork on top, add some seasoning then cover in foil and leave it in the oven at around 190-200c for about 1.5 hours.
I also buy bit bags of oats, grind it in the blender then add milk and blend again.
Jacket potatoes are another cheap bulking meal, and easy as fk to make. i just put it in the oven for a bit over an hour, could have some pork/chicken with it.
I make relatively cheap burgers too - mince, onion, parsley, egg, salt and pepper, and I add about 50g oats as well as 1-2 slices of bread crumbled/very finely diced. From 1lb of mince, I manage to get 7 quarter pounders.

slimsim said:Get rid of the fruit and veg!!! If this is a short term issue then forgoing these for a few weeks isn't really going to cause major issues, especially if you use any form of vitamin/mineral supplement. I think fruit especially, can really rack up the cost of a shopping trip.

Get rid of the chicken. As has already been mentionned, lean pork loins/fillets aren't too high in fat and tend to be far cheaper. Turkey is also much cheaper then chicken too.

Rice would probably be the cheaper form of carbs available, so I'd stock up on that and as Gray said, buy some cheap tins of beans as the rice and beans combined will create a complete protein source for a fraction of the cost of a meat based one.

I'd try and seek out a farm shop for the eggs as they can be dirt cheap.

brownbear said:
1lb of mince makes 7 quarter pounders!!!!! :S lol you must be adding f**k loads of onion, parsley, egg, salt and pepper!

haydnward said:
sounds good. can i get some input from the bigger guys wat they generally do? im sittin at around 98-100kg atm, but wana be alot bigger, tho i kno that takes time eetc etc

Big_Gray said:
i fill the blender with full fat milk, oats, protein powder, ice cream, peanut butter, bananas, honey n some oil, blend the s**t out of it n fill 2 shakers, i drink em between meals
this has assisted in me creeping up from low 130s to close to 140kg