Food Quality

[visitorial]

for the records, I shop at whole food.

3 cups lentils and 1 cup rice is 4 meals with ≈ 3g leucine for $1.00 or $1.50 a meal.

and I'm still gaining weight and increasing my lifts after 2.5 months of LP.

[Bigbrother24]

Dude, you're way over thinking this and your goal for 30-40 lbs of muscle is ~2-3 years of hard work, likely. We'd best get started, right?

Honestly have to agree with Jordan, you're way way overthinking this, people have made pretty good muscle mass strength and just all around gains with diets of taco bell and McDonalds. Just get your macro numbers and try to hit them every day, keep track of it in a log (I use an excel sheet) and weigh yourself once a week or everyday like some people do.

[Jordan Feigenbaum]

for the records, I shop at whole food.

3 cups lentils and 1 cup rice is 4 meals with ≈ 3g leucine for $1.00 or $1.50 a meal.

and I'm still gaining weight and increasing my lifts after 2.5 months of LP.

What's your squat at right now? Body weight?

[Smead]

for the records, I shop at whole food.

3 cups lentils and 1 cup rice is 4 meals with ≈ 3g leucine for $1.00 or $1.50 a meal.

and I'm still gaining weight and increasing my lifts after 2.5 months of LP.

Dude, 3g of leucine from shit sources isn't going to cut it. And 1 cup of rice is 2 meals at most. Eat chicken instead of lentils. It really really helps.

[JFick]

My question is, what is the difference (if any) of getting chicken sold at Whole Foods for $7.99/lb versus something at a generic store for sub-$4/lb? I mean, the $7.99/lb isn't even the organic (that being $10.99/lb). Right now, I buy two 2 lb bags of frozen chicken from Whole Foods each week (only frozen chicken I can find that has one ingredient: chicken) -- each being $8.99 a piece.

Considering I want to gain weight and that protein is usually the most expensive food, is there anyway I can cut down on the weekly grocery bill by getting "regular" chicken?

And I'd like to incorporate fattier pieces of meat into my diet, as well as pork chops. How do I go about purchasing those? If there is no extra nutritional benefit, there is no reason for me to buy the more expensive food. That just doesn't seem logical. Rice, oats, sweet potatoes and peanut butter are relatively cheap, in my opinion. IF I can get that protein cost down as well as eating more meat, that'd be great.

Overall, I'm interested in your opinion.

Thanks.

If you like pork, grocery stores (kroger, Walmart, etc) often sell pork loin for less than $2 per pound. Find a recipe you like and it's great. Have a Costco or Sam's club around you? Welcome to cheap protein Nirvana. Boneless skinless chicken breasts for 1.89 /lb even when it's not on sale.