By eating a big bowl of instant oats, gulp down two tablespoons of olive oil, and three or four half boiled eggs, finish with one or two big bananas. Won't that be enough? Why the need for crappy weight gainers?

Real food probably tastes much better, haha

Firstly, since this was just a simple reply to bring about an idea, I disregarded grams and kcal. Just went by the estimated tolerable satiety level for a beginner that's starting to eat right - glad to know that the actual calorie count came almost identical to a serving of mass gainer.

Weight gainers are mainly carbs, which is a cheap and easy way to allocate calories, mostly through maltodextrin. As you can see, in real life applications it's mainly carbs too, and some oil to ease consumption while boosting the calorie count, otherwise it'd be too filling and the beginner would just give up.

Main point to note here is that real food are much healthier and highly nutritious. And this is just for one meal in the course of a day, of which the main priority is to get in the adequate amount of calories. Of course, for subsequent meals go ahead and increase the protein to meet requirements, e.g. chicken fillet and additional eggs/whey, with carbs/fats being of lesser priority and coming in only after you've managed to finish consuming your proteins.

More carbs again for dinner (minimize fats and add some whey protein if affordable) so it'd be easier for digestion prior to sleep, otherwise you'd get gastric reflux easily.

This post has been edited by tagz8: Sep 29 2015, 11:55 AM