Food, Food, Food!!!

I just wanted to get some menu ideas from some other people...maybe there are some tasty dishes I haven't thought to make!!!

What is a typical menu plan for you guys on a typical day?  Please respond...I am sure that this will help out a lot of people who are having a hard time eatting 4000-5000 calories / 300-400 grms protein a day!!!  I know I feel like I am having a hard time eatting that much...feel so full all the time...or sick of eatting!!!

I know one thing...my kitty and dog are loving the water from the can of tunafish LOL!!!

Cheers,
MB

i've said it before and i'll say it again. tuna shake...

tiny

Hello bro, diet is one of the most important aspects of the sport of bodybuilding, as well as the toughest part to master.

You may already know that 6 meals a day is what you are looking at. When buliking up and on cycle 5000 calories is hard to take in, but not impossible. I use weight gainers and protein shakes along with my 6 daily meal's.

The weight gainer is literally a meal replacement drink packed out with calories, carbs and protein. In effect, if you take 3 servings of weight gainer and eat 6 meals a day you are getting 9 meals.

The weight gainer i use gives me about 350 calories per serving, this 3 times per day gives me 1050 calories, a good serving of carbs and the required protein. I get about 2500 calories from food (My 6 melas). this still only makes my daily caloric intake 3550....1450 short of my 5000 calories a day. So what i do is double up on the weight gainers, instead of one serving a sitting i take 2...very simple but also very effective.

Remember, with the added protein supplementation im getting more proteins, some carbs and more calories, and on week ends when I zigzag my calries (Se my articl "10 quick tips to building mass" in Daves articel forum) my caloric intake is about 6500 for 3 days.

Here is a favoured recipe of mine that i use frequently:

            <b>Chicken and Broccoli Stir Fry</b>

Chicken and Broccoli Stir Fry is a quickie classic
that tastes like you spent all day fussing over it.

1/2 cup water

4 teaspoons Tamari soy sauce

3 cups cooked brown rice

1 cup cubed cooked chicken breast

pinch of Pepper

pinch of garlic Powder

1 10 ounce package broccoli spears or florets (cooked according to package instructions and drained well)
chopped scallions

Coat a non-stick frying pan with olive oil cooking spray.
Place water, Tamari, and rice in pan.

Heat to medium high, stirring constantly.

Add chicken, Pepper and garlic. Heat through. Add broccoli. Stir until hot. Garnish with scallions.

Nutritional Totals Per Serving (I/4 recipe):
Yield: 2 to 4 Servings

Calories: 225
Protein: 17.1g
Sodium 181mg
Carbohydrate: 34.0g
Fat: 2.4g
Cholestrol: 32mg


Ill try and get some more info together, but I would invest in some supplements, weight gainer - protein being the 2 most important.

Awesome Riftwood!!!  Will be trying that recipe!!!  Yes I do have Designer Protein and Myoplex...but that doesn't account for much in the calories department.  Another question I guess I should be asking is about protein...doesn't your body only absorb 30grms at a time...or something like that..!?

Yes, your body can only deal with a certain ammount of protein my friend, but I have read and heared that the ammount is 30g, 40g, 50g and so on. The ammount I belive personally that the body can take in is about 50 grams per sitting.

I was talking to a friend a few weeks ago about ginger root. Ginger root is very helpfull to the body's digestive system and helps break down the nutrion factors of the food taken in.

Apperently, 500mg of ginger root can help in the intake of protein. In short, with the intake of ginger root on a daily basis (Befor meals) you can take in upto 80grams of protein in one sitting. Ill try and find the some more info on ginger root for you. I think it's about &#365-&#366.

fuk rifty... and i who thought you were just another pretty face.. lmao.. :biggrin:

tiny

Lol, and there you was thinking I was just anouther bouncer bro lol.

It must have something to do with taking a more active desk roll in running my business's lol.

(Edited by Riftwood at 12:43 am on Sep. 13, 2001)

thanks a lot rift!!!

I have an Excel sheet on my palm pilot that I use to keep track of my meals on a weekly basis.  I enter the items and it adds up the calories and protein for each meal and for the day.  

Here is what I had on Monday.  Some of it is shorthand, so I hope you figure out what the entries are.  TubCtChz is one of those individual serving tubs of cottage cheese.  THe 1:3 shake is 1 scoop of weight gainer with 3 scoops of whey protein.  The other shake is just whey protein.  As you can see, I took in a ton of protein on Monday (whew, Monday night was a gassy one!).  Most days, however, I stick to about 250g or so.  Unfortunately, the chart I use doesn't track carbs or fat.  I generall take in whatever carbs I can get (high quality as often as possible), and stick to eating healthy fats the same.  

If you have Quicksheet installed on your Palm, and you want this, let me know and I'll send over a blank.

                    MONDAY
Item  CalProt
               ======= ===       ====
BrkfastOmelette12422
500Oatmeal1504
Shake14627
w/skim808
AMSnackBagel1709
4962TubCtChz 18024
Shake14627
LunchBread x21204
690Turkey 4z20028
Rice Cup1704
beans20010

PMSnack2TubCtChz 18024
3501C Rice1704

PreGym2C Pasta31520
390Peach75


PstGym1:3 shake 67041
670

DinnerFilet40042
835stf. tomato 1204
Sweet1150
limas 1 cup 20012


Bedtime3 eggs5112
287GOGURT903
Shake14627

TOTAL4218356

hehehe I started a thread that earned its own forum...hehe  See I am a contributer to this site <!--emo&--><img src="http://musclechemistry.mantisforums.com/IB3/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''><!--endemo-->  Actually I love this site..and I think this is a great idea!!!  I hope that people will actually post some recipes in here!!!  That would be great!!!  I am trying the stir-fry this week riftwood <!--emo&--><img src="http://musclechemistry.mantisforums.com/IB3/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''><!--endemo--> Thanks

I am reading this while eating and I realize that I am eating a corndog! lol  Its the secrete of the pro's (i think)

Glad too here it my friend. It is a nice meal, I hope your's turns out better than mine lol. Anyways, ill be adding some more over the week end so check back for the latest recipe's.

Most of the recipes i have added are bulky recipes, ill get some cutting recipes up for cutting diets. Tiny might be interested in taking a look at the cutting ones.

hey boys..what about losing weight? some of us ladies want to tone up..but we'd also like to lose a lil round the middle  <!--emo&--><img src="http://musclechemistry.mantisforums.com/IB3/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''><!--endemo-->