Calorie dense foods

[Corrie]

Nuts. You could snack on handfuls of nuts all through the day, never get too full, and get in a bunch of extra calories.

Nuts are great but it's easy to overeat them and get super full. If you pace yourself you can put down a ton of calories though.

I used to go to the bulk store and get cashews, almonds and hazelnuts and mix them all together with some raisins and smarties. One part for each nut and 2/3 of a part for the raisins and 1/2 for the smarties. It worked well but it was giving me serious acid reflux and I stopped eating it.

[Josiah Moye]

Sunflower seeds. A friend of mine, when questioned why he always had the damn things on hand during a bulk, said, "They are free calories. I've never been like 'you know I just can't eat one more sunflower seed.'"

Have em on hand and in cheek at all times.

[flameiguana]

I say if you're eating a good amount of nutritious food already, why not eat a few pastries?
A couple of donuts is 500+ calories.

[Patrick]

If calories are the goal then fat is the answer. On a per-gram basis, fats deliver more than twice the calories of protein or carbs and in terms of volume they're also a winner; a gram of oats takes up much more space than a gram of oil. This will gel with your protein goals because you can buy the fattier (cheaper) meats out there, throw on some butter or cook them in an oil-rich sauce, and pack in a ton of extra calories. Nuts and nut butters are also great. But you need to start thinking about intentionally adding fats to your meals. If it's a tablespoon of oil in a shake, a finger of peanut butter straight from the jar, or a bag of pork rinds... it's not all that tough, you just gotta get it in.

You might encounter a couple of digestive problems when you first ramp up your fat intake. If you decide to get most of it as oils, there's a good chance that for a couple of days you'll be eliminating some of it as an oil slick in your can... that'll pass, assuming your gall bladder is working right. Otherwise, keep drinking the water and eating the roughage to keep things going and you'll be golden.

[rickastlen]

Okay... I ate dirty as fuck today. ended up getting 5061 calories and 155 grams of protein. I started out the day with a cup of steel cut oats mixed with 2 tablespoons of butter. Then, while I was at my apprenticeship class, I took advantage of the free costco blueberry and chocolate chip muffins. According to the website, those things have around 600 calories each. I ate 3 of those costco pretzel rolls. For lunch, I went down to wendies and picked up a double baconator with french fries. I forgot to count the french fries in my final calorie count for the day. Then, when I got home, I made a shake with 3 bananas, 2 scoops of whey, 1 cup of fage fat free greek yogurt, and 3 cups of milk. There's more because I forgot to count the honey I put on the rolls and some nuts as well.

I feel kind of bad now because I ate all this on a day I'm not working, so I'm pretty sure it's gonna turn into a good amount of fat. I don't plan on lifting until tomorrow because I don't think I'm fully recovered from working yesterday. My knees are aching a little bit from walking around and standing all day.

[Joe Murphy]

Calories are easy and, as you see from your numbers today, protein is hard. If you've stated your body weight I missed it but 155 grams of protein is way low for that amount of cals.

[rickastlen]

Calories are easy and, as you see from your numbers today, protein is hard. If you've stated your body weight I missed it but 155 grams of protein is way low for that amount of cals.

Yeah. I figure it should be enough, though. I weigh 165 pounds.

[Joe Murphy]

I figure it should be enough, though.

It ain't.

[Bazza20]

Yeah. I figure it should be enough, though. I weigh 165 pounds.

If your not trying to cut a gram of protein per lb bodyweight will be fine.

[tzanghi]

I feel kind of bad now because I ate all this on a day I'm not working, so I'm pretty sure it's gonna turn into a good amount of fat. I don't plan on lifting until tomorrow because I don't think I'm fully recovered from working yesterday. My knees are aching a little bit from walking around and standing all day.

Don't worry about this, it's not really true. The reason you take a day off, as you later explained, is that you're not fully recovered. Your body will use this energy to recover and to build more tissue on top of what you had before. I'm sure you've been sore the day after lifting, your body is still repairing and supplementing your tissue that day.

I do agree with everyone else, though, that you need to be getting more protein in. You do want to make sure your body has enough material to work with while using all this energy.