Post: #1

I will be doing a bulking diet, eating about 3200-3500 calories every day. How do the bigger guys here save time while cooking?

Post: #2

There's some stuff on slow cookers on this forum. Try searching that.

Post: #3

1. A slow cooker is a great idea. You can make 10 meals worth of shredded beef while you are at work.

2. Use the broiler to cook steaks or chicken. You can usually fit 3-4 full sized steaks on a broiling pan.

3. Make recipes like guacamole and chili which will store well and last a long time. Making a batch of chili with 10 lbs of meat and freeze most of it, defrosting when necessary. A batch of guacamole with 10 avocados will last you a week or more if you eat a little every day. Put the guacamole in a glass container with a layer of olive oil to prevent contact with the air.

4. Cook large amounts of omelettes or hard boiled eggs at once and eat them throughout the week.

4. You can broil steak, make chili and prepare other things all at the same time. Use the oven, all of the ranges and it is possible to cook food for the entire week in about an hour or so.

For example, you can prepare chili and let it simmer for an hour or so, broil 5 steaks in the broiler(15 min), cook a dozen hard boiled eggs(8 min). While this is cooking you prepare 5 salads by chopping up onions, carrots and other vegetables. Make a basic salad dressing with 1 part olive oil, 1 part vinegar and a nice spicy mustard. Shake well and it forms an emulsion. If you eat more carbohydrates, preparing rice en bulk is pretty easy as well.

Post: #4

Agree with the guacamole. You can cook everything for fajitas ahead of time and just assemble whenever you're hungry.

learn to eat the same things all the time. Bulking shouldn't require a cookbook with fancy recipies all the time. Simple is better.

For calories drink milk and eat tree nuts every day. 1 cup of nuts is 900 calories. A half gallon of milk is 1200 calories. Those two items give 2100 cal a day and are easy to implement. Get that into your diet and just eat breakfast lunch and dinner normally and you will get your cals.

Post: #5

1) Assuming cost is not prohibitive, purchase convenience foods like chopped vegetables and cooked rotiserrie chicken. Frozen chopped vegetables are not substantially more expensive than fresh and save on time.

2) Full fat proteins do not take longer to prepare and offer many more calories. Chicken thigh with skin has around three times the calories of boneless, skinless chicken breast and 80/20 beef has about twice the calories of 93/7.

3) If you handle lactose well, whole milk is an easy addition.

4) Batch cooking large amounts of carbohydrate such as rice is very simple and stores decently. Obviously, there are many carbohydrate rich convenience foods.