Its amazing how quick the food bill runs up.
My wife and I shop at lidl. Sub £100 a week on everything including non food items. Outstanding.
I made a cooked breakfast last week for 5 of us.
Jam on toast, a little pastry each. Then eggs bacon sausage beans for the main part.
£4.00 total.
I still eat cheese, just rarely. It’s probably pretty helpful to my long term goals that I can’t regularly eat cheese.
I’m pretty happy with out current set up for roasts. My only issue is that I feel like a bad person when my missus has one leg, the kids get the off cuts and I’m sat there with 2 boobies and a leg but they don’t seem to mind.
If you blokes had to feed my family here in Melbourne you would have a heart attack at the cost.
100% this. The DoMS in my legs has only just gone from a not very stressful or difficult session a week ago. On Mass Made Simple, I had basically no soreness.
Yup if you aren’t intentionally shopping the bill just keeps creeping up. I have a basic outline of eating for the week now which has me buy 2kg of mince 1kg of chicken, 1 whole chicken, 30-60 eggs, 2-3kg of frozen veg, 1kg of frozen fruit, oats, rice, olive oil, tuna, pasta, beans, bananas, oranges, and a couple of loaves of bread (some other assorted stuff in there) but that allows me to generally make: roast, cottage pie X 2, curry, chilli or lasagna X 2 and fajitas and often a other curry. Breakfast is usually overnight oats and 60g of whey (I usually have about 120g, of whey a day which isn’t included in the shopping costs, but it’s unflavoured from myprotein - that allows me to not have to eat insane amounts of meat to get protein #s up so keep meat costs down). Lunch pretty much sandwiches for the kids and wife and beans on toast with 6 eggs for me. The kids eat full sized adult meals.
It is still possible to go budget and reasonably healthy and bulk, just needs some work and not worrying about luxury foods (don’t get me wrong I love chilli stuffed olives, fancy cheese, steak, puddings etc - but the basics are cheap and do the job!).
Sounds amazing - drown some bread in oil and fry it and I’m there!
You are a bad person but that’s not the gluttony it’s the fact you can’t eat cheese! It’s just wrong.
I can, and do eat cheese, I just limit myself.
Doesn’t stop me being a bad person though.
Pork is another cheaper meat. I get mine for £5/kg.
Yeah bulking on pennies is a planning exercise. In fact all nutrition is a planning exercise. My lesson this year has been - nutrition needs as much attention as training. I’m still working in it. But I feel like I’m moving on a good direction.
6 eggs beans on toast… I’m a little bit jealous right now. This feels like day 45,756,309 of minced beef with blended broccoli in tomato sauce. It’s boring as hell.
This has always been a go to. Delicious and not terrible. Cheap as chips too.
This is a go to of mine. Its about 1000 calories and 60g of protein. So I 100% agree. Its got a place in a well managed diet.
Beans - 400 calories 20g pro
Eggs - 450 calories 35g pro
Toast - 150 calories 5g pro
add a bit of butter…
Today that meal alone would account for 50% of my daily calories. But only 30% my protein. I’d have to eat nothing but lean chicken breast for the rest of the day…
Yeah, I mean, i wouldn’t use it when i was aiming to lose weight.
I would because I live on it for lunch, but probably skip the butter and drop to 2 eggs, 1 piece of toast, still be relatively satiating and not bad macros/cals, way too lazy to figure out anything else for lunch!
Double protein shake in milk is cheap, protein filled and budget. My most successful weight loss phases have used protein shake and fruit extensively as breakfast/lunch.
Cheap, easy and fairly good for you.
I love food like that.
Week 3 day 2 - I used to enjoy training… I must have been doing it wrong.
Conditioning:
Sort of casual bit more of a push at the end.
Giant set 1:
kB swing: 24kg X 3 X 9 sets
Deads: 60, 100, 130, 145, X 5, 162.5 X 5 X 5
Cable crunch: 60kg X 8 X 5 sets
Ez curls: 20kg X 20 X 5 sets
Super set 1:
Bench: 60, 72.5, 82.5, 92.5 X 5, 105kg X 5 X 5
Bb row: 65kg X 10 X 5 sets.
Plate change rest on all but top sets - top sets (162.5 deads & 105 on bench) 3 mins per set - which now feels like a flipping age I’m used to 90 or 120 secs, just felt necessary to get through the hard stuff today, definitely helps not being hypoxic during the hard stuff (2.5 mins would have been fine on bench but I got to type this out in my rest!)
A weird thing, my bench flared way more than normal, not intentional and not bad, just a thing. My hypothesis is that my tris are still recovering and my body just shifted to a less shafted muscle group, I’m not a particular chesty bencher.
Not too bad, but definitely don’t enjoy training with this program - it’s hard, which sounds obvious but so many training programs have 1 hard lift a day and then drop to something easy this just sucks from start to finish every session. Probably doesn’t help that I giant set stuff and add conditioning…but yea, shut up.
There are lessons probably to be learned from this…but for right now its just get to the end. Week 3 did suck though. I wish my Texas Powerbar would show up. I could do more Super sets/Giant sets and get the punishment over quicker, especially on Wednesdays.
Ever consider a DIY axle? Use it for benches and pressing. Set you back like $50 and a trip to home depot.
Haha for sure, I think the biggest lesson is you can always give more and do more (as long as you set your mind to not just the lifting side but also the recovery side), the first thing to fail is definitely the mind! (Unless you blow out your back then it’s definitely your back).
Yea this program is perfect for giant sets 2 bars minimum though!
I’m still thinking along this line for my next run at dark horse and just general rotation, next time I drive past a scaffold place I’m going in and buying a length.
I have not. But the bar should be here any day…I hope. I’ll have to look into making my own when I get more room in the Gym. I need to find a better way to store all the bars I’ve got now. Leaning them up in a corner doesn’t seem like a great idea. Just a little short on space currrently.
