Getting enough protein

[TJM]

Same here. I'm getting between 350-400g of protein daily. I cook a bunch of chicken every weekend, usually on the grill but occasionally baked/broiled. That lasts until the next cookout. I drink a few shakes (whey) mixed with milk. The milk adds 11g/8oz so a 25g scoop becomes 36g.p./8oz. I make them 12oz/2 scoops so 66g each. X 2. 132g in shakes, I only have to eat 250ish to hit my goal.

Using pasteurized whites is a great idea and probably contains more protein per oz with a better amino acid spectrum but I couldn't afford that. 1qt is 32oz, roughly 3 shakes @12oz each. 5q whites per week vs. 5qt milk. I go through 2 or 3 gallons of milk in a week though.

1 gallon of liquid egg is $38 on amazon. Milk is $2.99/gal.

How much do you pay per qt of the stuff OOS?

[Bull]

Every few weeks I spend a few hours and cook dozens of pounds of meat. Prep it and throw it in the oven, then separate and bag it once it's done. Easy 150g protein from meat for each day right there. I have about 3 weeks of cooked chicken/beef frozen in my deep freezer right now. Take a few packs out at once, and throw them in some tupperware with some veggies and carbs and there's a few meals for the day. I have whey/oats for other meals, and eggs for another. Training days I get 4 scoops of whey which is 100g or so, 150g from meat, 50g from eggs and fat sources, and say 20-30g from my carbs. I work 12 hour shifts, and live an hour from work and a half hour from the gym, so I had to come up with something that works.

[OnTheSauce]

So you're only eating 200gr of protein a day? On a good day? I eat over 400. Make your own meals. It's not hard to eat during the day when everything is already made and you just have to warm up a Tupperware container

[OdinsOtherSon]

So if you're anything like me, I find myself struggling to get in enough protein during the course of the day. A lot of people resort to using different supplements to help with this and I don't have a problem with that as long as we're smart in the types of supps we use. I'm not down for the pre-made supps, protein bars, weight gainers, etc, etc. I use straight up whey protein. But even with that I find it difficult to get in enough protein. Working all day, school at night, life in between....just doesn't leave much time for cooking chicken and beef.

Now, most of you guys here are probably already doing this and are going to think, "where the hell has this guy been?" but I'm a little slow I guess. In place of water or even milk I've started using liquid eggs whites as the liquid portion of my post work out shake. A quart carton (pretty sure that's the right size) has 100g of protein per container. I've started taking 2 shakes (really smoothies) per day and using a carton of egg whites plus a 20g scoop of whey which ends up 140g of protein. That leaves me with another 60 grams to eat. The whites are pasteurized and therefore cooked. Cooking raises the bio-availability of the whites dramatically. I also incorporate berries (I buy them frozen) such as a mixed bag of strawberries/raspberries/blueberries or like I'm doing now, straight blueberries, a banana, flax seed, and occasionally some honey. This has really helped me to get in enough protein through the day AND the vast majority of it is coming from a food source (egg) instead of actual supplements. For me the addition of the whey is just as a texture enhancer. The egg whites have zero flavor in the "smoothie" and the froze fruit gives the drink a desert feel. Anyway, just wanted to share my new found technique of getting in enough protein as opposed to letting that requirement fall through the cracks like I so often did.