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Getting Big on a Budget

tinytraps

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1.Well Ive happened to have a substancial cut in my income(more than half) so my food budget has had to come right down. Anytips on being able to still eat to gain size without blowin my bank balance? My food budget will be about 80$per week.

2.What is the best way to prepare food in advance? Ive just been making meals as I need them, but its getting increasingly hard to keep up with work and study.

Chers in advance 8)

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Sorry to hear about your loss of income, never a nice situation to be in. The cheapest combination would have to be mince, pasta, and frozen mixed vegetables. All very cheap, easy to cook, easy to store, and covers the basics for still allowing you to grow. Taste is the problem for me, I've never been a fan of mince but if you can enjoy it then go nuts.

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heres some shit i do or have done, dunno if itl help.

eggs - a good+cheap meal. i cook a tray on saturday, gives me 5 eggs whole for brekkie for 6 days (7th day is carbup)

meat - check the mad butchers webpage every monday - with meat, shop around, its the biggest $$ part of your protein, and any saving is good. and yes, mince ftw!

carbs - potatoes homie, any way you like. roast up a shitload with some olive oil and seasoning, will last for days in the fridge.

peanut butter - good cheap cals, buy big jars.

oats are good cheap carbs too.

no more pounders! :pfft:

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heres some shit i do or have done, dunno if itl help.

eggs - a good+cheap meal. i cook a tray on saturday, gives me 5 eggs whole for brekkie for 6 days (7th day is carbup)

meat - check the mad butchers webpage every monday - with meat, shop around, its the biggest $$ part of your protein, and any saving is good. and yes, mince ftw!

carbs - potatoes homie, any way you like. roast up a shitload with some olive oil and seasoning, will last for days in the fridge.

peanut butter - good cheap cals, buy big jars.

oats are good cheap carbs too.

no more pounders! :pfft:

Sounds like a good plan bro, I was thinking bout sticking to mince eggs potaetoes, will cook a shitload on my day off(theres a lot of those now :pfft: ) Ill be happy with 3solid meals a day not the best but you work with what you got.

Sorry to hear about your loss of income, never a nice situation to be in. The cheapest combination would have to be mince, pasta, and frozen mixed vegetables. All very cheap, easy to cook, easy to store, and covers the basics for still allowing you to grow. Taste is the problem for me, I've never been a fan of mince but if you can enjoy it then go nuts.

I think Ill ditch the veges. More money for meat :twisted: Thanks for the advice boys 8)

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I have a doctorate in Budgetology. Head to the supermarket often and wait for a special on premium mince/skin-on chicken, depending on where you live you can get both for about $10/kilo or cheaper. When the special is on buy like 10kg worth of meat (or as much as your freezer will hold) and buy a whole lot of rice and pasta in bulk. Get a whole lot of cheap pasta sauce for the mince and curry sauce (korma, butter chicken etc) for the chicken. Get carrots, onions and beans as your veges (better than buying frozen vege packs).

If you do all that you can stay under $80 a week and stuff yourself.

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rice/pasta (carb for carb so much cheaper than potatoes)

whey, mince, tuna, nasty bits of animals people dont like but taste good with a bit of beef stock.

Not the cheapest but I usually buy chicken hearts when they are on special.

pasta brocolli on the boil with some 2min noodle sachets (the 50c asian ones)

pan fry chopped hearts in olive oil on a low heat (mixed herbs if u got it)

add it all together (should be soupish), top with spinach, spring onion and a lemon wedge in.

one of my staples at the moment.

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I have a doctorate in Budgetology. Head to the supermarket often and wait for a special on premium mince/skin-on chicken, depending on where you live you can get both for about $10/kilo or cheaper. When the special is on buy like 10kg worth of meat (or as much as your freezer will hold) and buy a whole lot of rice and pasta in bulk. Get a whole lot of cheap pasta sauce for the mince and curry sauce (korma, butter chicken etc) for the chicken. Get carrots, onions and beans as your veges (better than buying frozen vege packs).

If you do all that you can stay under $80 a week and stuff yourself.

this is good shit! Ive already got a little stockpile of mince, should last me through the next pay, chur bro!

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i bought 11kg of rump steak last weekend from pak n save for less than $100. it was $8.98 per kg, cheaper than prime mince is most of the time.

where i am staying at the moment has two little size freezers and one deep freeze.

had to stock pile that shit.. :lol:

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Look for things like mutton flaps, pork bones, lamb necks, they're pretty cheap, and you can get a good feed outta them. As for chook, try for boiling fowls, I'm getting them for $3.99/kilo, you boil them for a bit before cooking them, or have them shredded, much cheaper than buying them as trays of tits. Mince, get the cheapest you can find, drain off the fat, then if you want it even leaner "wash" it before returning it to the pan. Learn your spices, they will become your best friends when you're living on mince 6 nights a week. An easy one is a bit of lime juice and chilli powder.

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how bad are 2min noodles for u, without the flavour?

Unless they are the baked ones, they are fried. Fried food is not that great, but if you want calories, sweet as. Noodles are flour, so carbohydrates.

Though in saying that, part of my my bulking diet consisted of a can of tuna, and 2 packets of 2 min noodles, with an egg dumped in at the end once the noodles were done (and the tuna heated).

Breakfast of champions!

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Well depending on what other fats you have 2. I love Peanuts and eat a shit load of them moderately off course :).. So i only chuck in 1 or 2 egg yolks... which is perfect with 6 egg whites...Mashed / Mixed up still gives the nice egg taste :)

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