You are going to need to eat like mad. Unless you eat junk food and drink Coke and Pepsi constantly, you don't eat enough. As Mark Rippetoe said, he tells his kids that they have to drink a gallon of whole milk each day and get kicked out of an all-you-can-eat buffet at least twice weekly.
Do you have the ability to eat 3500-4000 calories EVERY day without consuming tons of junk food? Nothing wrong with eating pizza and a double cheeseburger (or two!) every day, as long as you keep lifting hard. Dump the candy, soft drinks, donuts, cookies, etc....stuff that is high in calories with no protein or nutritive value. You want *quality* calories.
Convince Mom to buy seven pounds of the 93% ground beef, and finish off an entire Hamburger Helper box with a pound of ground beef daily, as well as 2 or 3 peanut butter and banana sandwiches and as much milk as you can stomach. Don't like hamburger helper? Go for a box of mac-n-cheese along with your ground beef, but put down 1 lb of beef and 1 box of starch per day at least. Don't like mac-n-cheese? Make a bunch of spaghetti noodles or some rice or corn and peas, baked beans, potatoes. And eat dead animal. Lots of it. Don't want to eat a pound of ground beef? EGGS! Eat them! All of them!
Here are a few easy "tricks" that I used back in the day when I was lazy and didn't need to cook for anyone but myself.
- Brown 1-lb. ground beef and/or George Foreman a pound of chicken
- Make a box of macaroni and cheese
- Mix the 2
- Get a jug of milk
- Drink milk and eat the chow
- Makes 2-3 meals
Hamburger Helper - oh hell yeah! Just use 2 lbs of beef, and make 3-5 meals out of it
Peanut butter and banana sandwiches + milk = bulk food extraordinaire
Egg Sandwiches = scrambled eggs + cheese + whole grain bread and salsa = YUM! Turbo charged musclechow.
- Stick 4-6 eggs into a skillet, cover
- Let eggs get cooked on one side
- Flip it over carefully, and cook the other side
- Throw it on 2 pieces of toast or bread with salsa
Buy some extra virgin olive oil and take a T of it here and there throughout the day. Great antioxidant properties, great nutritive properties, and helps you get in some healthy calories. Oddly enough, it tastes decent as well.
Keep a jar of All-natural peanut butter and a spoon with you. Eat a tablespoon every hour or 2, depending upon how many calories you need to fill in.
You get the message. Be creative. You're a skinny *******, have some fun gaining weight while us fatties eat green beans and lentils. You need calories more than you need exact super-health-type foods.
