I would like to hear everyone’s suggestions for what they use for cheap/quick/easy protein. I was eating a lot of tuna for a while, which I thought was perfect. Until you guys had to go and warn me about that whole mercury thing. Thanks alot.
Grow!
Eggs (boiled, scrambled, omlette, etc.)
Cottage Cheese
Lunch meat (rare, but makes for a convenient treat)
Raw nuts
Tuna
Cheese
All of the above can be convenient and used as needed.
And all the usual stuff that takes preparation, but is a necessity:
Beef
Chicken
Fish
Ckicken Breast
Tuna
Eggs
Red Meat
Beef Jerky(the real stuff no slim jim)
Cottage cheese(before bed)
[quote]erikeve wrote:
cheap/quick/easy protein.[/quote]
cheap = has to be tuna.
quick = protein powder
easy = protein powder
it’s pretty tough to get 200g per day if you don’t have protein powder. i think mixing it up is good though.
ie, at night, a slow digesting protein like cottage chese should be good.
well, to answer the topic, my favorite protein source is definately protein powders (quantity-wise), but eating-wise must be steaks 
[don’t know how how helpful this was :)]
Nate,
Do you call raw nuts protein? I am not trying to be smartass. I call raw nuts a fat even though there is protein in it. Correct me if I am wrong.
What’s wrong with canned red salmon and sardines other than bad fish breath??? they also contain more oil/fat than tuna and probably a lot less mercury.
Beef!
WHOLE eggs!
Chickens!
Grow!
CFM whey (somewhere else)
Micellar casien (somewhere else)
quote]erikeve wrote:
I would like to hear everyone’s suggestions for what they use for cheap/quick/easy protein. I was eating a lot of tuna for a while, which I thought was perfect. Until you guys had to go and warn me about that whole mercury thing. Thanks alot. [/quote]
[quote]dvldog wrote:
Nate,
Do you call raw nuts protein? I am not trying to be smartass. I call raw nuts a fat even though there is protein in it. Correct me if I am wrong.
[/quote]
I use them as a protein/fat source, but I always combine them with more protein. Usually a protein shake and raw nuts or raw nuts and meat.
Cheap
Quick
Easy
Cook up a large batch, maybe a week’s worth, of a protein meal and pack into portion-sized gladware containers and stack these in the fridge. When hungry, pop one into the microwave for 1 to 2 minutes. I eat 1/2 to 1/4 of a meal for a snack, or a whole one for a 6-small-meals-a-day plan. Has more nutrition and protein, more flavor and less calories than “snacks”. These are portable too if you invest in a cooler (hard or soft) with refreezable ice packs. This was taught to me years ago by Iron, and it is super duper economical, quick and easy. You can save so much money on food doing this, and takes a lot of the work out of meal planning and preparation. Also decreases the likelihood of cheating on your diet as when you are hungry, your meal is already pre-made and available, no excuses. Ask HPD_Iron for some of his recipes (he can make the driest of lean meats very tasty and low-carb and is the pro at economical protein meals).
Meals can include lowfat chili cooked with ground turkey breast or lean ground beef, chicken breast dishes (Iron slices into bite sized pieces and sautees with onion, tomatoes peppers, mexican spices), etc. Buy in bulk and it’s really very economical. Really really high protein and very economical is to mix in unflavored whey protein powder into these dishes just before eating.
[quote]Nate Dogg wrote:
dvldog wrote:
Nate,
Do you call raw nuts protein? I am not trying to be smartass. I call raw nuts a fat even though there is protein in it. Correct me if I am wrong.
I use them as a protein/fat source, but I always combine them with more protein. Usually a protein shake and raw nuts or raw nuts and meat.
[/quote]
That’s what I do.
My favorite protein source is anything that had eyeballs in its past life. hee hee
Chicken, Beef, Fish are the main three I eat.
I am just beginning to experiment with whey protein and things. My latest order of Grow! Surge, M, and Alpha Male just arrived today along with my brand spanking new Testosterone T-Shirts Its always stressfull ordering this stuff for fear of our commie customs bastards in Canada…
1 Any animal (chickens, cows, fishies)
3 Eggs
4 Beans (black, garbanzo)
5 Dairy (yogurt, cottage cheese)
6 Poon
BFG
Quick Snack/Protein Boost: Whey Powder
Meal: Chicken Kebobs(Frozen)
Quick Meal: Ground Sirloin
Expensive/Treat Meal: Beef Tenderloin
eggs, Grow!(best ever), red meat. basically anything with quality meat in it, i have. i prepare my own 8 egg omlets with ham, turkey and some provalone cheese(no carbs there) and its absolutely devine. a ton of protein in it too, and fat too, so be aware.
Roasts and broiled red meat cuts are easy, you just through them in the oven. I say red meat cuts because luckily, as a hunter i get access to venison and other great wild meats.
Also don’t be afraid of eggs! They are a great snack hardboiled- i usually eat one between my first couple meals
Finally the protein shake is an essential because it is a pain to wake up at three in the morning and choke down tuna
Canned pink salmon. At $2.19 a can, less with coupons, I haven’t found anything cheaper or healthier. It has the omega 3’s that are perfect for P+F meals, has calcium because of the bones, and doesn’t have much mercury or PCBs since it’s wild from Alaska.
Did I mention it’s REALLY CHEAP? Yay!