2978: 10 Cheap Foods That Help You Lose Fat and Build Muscle

“You just change the portions. So, we'll start with the first food, which is eggs. So, eggs are super inexpensive. People have referred to eggs as being nature's multivitamin. Whole eggs are incredibly nutrient-dense. That's one of the only complete foods.”

“The protein quality is the best that you can find. Whey and eggs, some of the best you can find. They're phenomenal. And again, they're super versatile and they're very inexpensive. So eggs at the top for sure. And again, a bulk farmer's market.”

“four old eggs, threw some onions, threw an ounce of cheese on it. And I've got this like incredible omelet now that's super high protein, a good amount of healthy fats, low carbohydrates, like so, so good, you know, and eat fast.”

“You can freeze the meats. The cottage cheese will last a little while. It's got a little bit of eggs, will last a little while. Potatoes last a long time. White rice lasts a long time. Actually, do you know that eggs from an actual chicken, if you go to like a farmer's market like that, do not get refrigerated and will last up?”

“Well, so I, we, your cousin was telling us about this. Yeah. There's like a solution that you can put them in. Oh. That will allow you to have eggs. But they get like 50 a day. Apparently you deal with 50 a day. If you don't wash them, they last a long time. Yeah, you can't wash them. You can't wash them.”

“And then for some reason, it kind of fell out of favor. But it's great macros, good source of protein, very high-quality protein. It's great. Next, we have potatoes. Potatoes are about as cheap as you can get. And they're very nutrient-dense. Believe it or not, they're starchy carbohydrate, great source of complex carbohydrates.”

“You put coals in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With a fork. A little bit. Yeah, yeah. That'll cook it better. But I love potatoes are great. For me personally, white rice is great. For whatever reason, potatoes give me a better, I feel better in the gym when I eat a lot of potatoes.”

“This is just a personal thing. I can't tell you the science because they're identical when it comes to eating. Yeah, I don't know what it is. Usable energy-wise. Yeah, I like potatoes for that reason for sure. I feel it. Same thing. So sweet potatoes are my favorite. Sweet potatoes and yams are my favorite because I can eat them with nothing on them. They're actually pretty good.”

“They're actually pretty good. They're just so good. Yeah, I can't do that with white potatoes. Yeah, white potatoes, a little butter, and I feel like I need something on it. I can eat a sweet potato or a yam plain. I mean, they have enough natural flavor to them and as easily digestible as the rest.”

“You can freeze the meats. The cottage cheese will last a little while. It's got a little bit of eggs, will last a little while. Potatoes last a long time. White rice lasts a long time. Actually, do you know that eggs from an actual chicken, if you go to like a farmer's market like that, do not get refrigerated and will last up?”

“Yeah. And so for meal prepping reasons, I don't ever recommend chicken breasts. It's always chicken thighs. And then frozen berries. You can buy these now, very inexpensive. And berries are very nutrient-densive, very high in fiber. It's a very fibrous fruit. And you buy them. The reason why I said frozen.”

“The thing about berries that fresh berries are great. Love fresh berries, but they don't last very long. Frozen berries last a long time. And they're pretty. I eat them right out the bag sometimes. You can make smoothies with them as well, but they're great. You know, so I saw somebody on Instagram that I wanted to try.”

“Okay. No idea. Yeah. They're frozen. They make a thing. They make this, I forget what it was called. Costco sells big bags of frozen berries for really inexpensive. Really, really good. That's the one that that's the one that it does drive me crazy how quickly they mold on me. That's right. And I've been like on, I've been on the hunt to figure this out.”

“It's super easy to blend them right away. Very easy. And then lastly, an old school carbohydrate source, long shelf life, super cheap. Oatmeal. Oatmeal. Now there's like these biohackers out there talking about how bad oatmeal is for you. You're like, get out of here, dude.”

“my diet is pretty relatively similar to what it would be when I'm on a normal diet, but I'm not doing my oatmeal. And that's what made me notice it. I was just like, oh, wow, that's crazy. I didn't realize how much fiber I was getting from my oatmeal every morning that I used to have that in the morning to start my day.”

“or something, man, I feel like I'm like, I need to eat again right afterwards. But I feel like the oatmeal always satisfied me and I was, it was good for a couple of days. So, what are you dieting? When I was trying to eat like a lot of calories, when I was trying to bulk as a kid, my thing was oatmeal, peanut butter, protein powder, and then I would add honey to it.”

“The cool thing about ground beef is the macros are controlled for you. So when you get a steak, you can generally estimate what a ribeye is, for example, or tri-tip, but the marbling will change calories a little bit. Ground beef is 90%. If it's 90%, it's 90%.”

“I also like it because it's easy to control portions. You brought up the point about comparing ground beef to ribeye steak or something like that. I think that's a really good point that a lot of people don't consider. A lot of these foods, when we use things like MyFitnessPal or FatSecret, are estimations of what these things are.”

“are estimations of what these things are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like a ribeye steak. A ribeye cut at Safeway versus one at another place versus like a butcher box. I mean, these are all like the marbling in that is dramatically different.”

“20 grams each in it. I mix that with blueberries. That's a staple. And then when I get bored of that for a while, I switch over to cottage cheese with pineapple in it. And it's just like, it's an easy go-to. And it tastes like a dessert.”

“Now, there was a product that was tied to it. I don't think you even need the product to do this, but I don't know. Doug, maybe you try this. Do you ever put like your blueberries like in water? Like, I think if you store them in water, they will last longer than if you just sit in the yeah, there's this, there's this container that I've seen and you and it's designed like that.”

“100%. And it's very controlled. So I like it for that reason. And side note, we didn't say brown rice for a reason. There's a myth out there that brown rice is healthier. It sucks. And white rice, first off, the fiber difference is nominal, but really brown rice contains, we don't have to get”

“No joke. So, and it's also worse for gut health. It's a little bit more harsh on the gut. So, white rice, brown rice is not. And it tastes worse. White rice tastes better and it's better for you. So it's nice. No brainer. Yeah. No brainer. All right. Next up, cottage cheese.”

“counter without even going to the refrigerator. That's cool. And that is the four weeks is like minimum. Wow. That's like minimum right there. All right. So next up is frozen vegetables, like frozen broccoli. Again, they last forever. You boil them up, cook them, and you know, they don't offer a lot. I know it's people like, vegetables are good for you. Listen, they're not that nutrient-dense.”

“They last a long time. You boil them up and you've got yourself some, you know, some vegetables you can eat, and they're very inexpensive. Frozen broccoli is cheap. Yeah, this is something I'm kicking up in my diary. And I think I shared with you off air that I was kind of going back and looking at my macros and I hadn't been really paying attention to fiber.”

“counter without even going to the refrigerator. That's cool. And that is the four weeks is like minimum. Wow. That's like minimum right there. All right. So next up is frozen vegetables, like frozen broccoli. Again, they last forever. You boil them up, cook them, and you know, they don't offer a lot. I know it's people like, vegetables are good for you. Listen, they're not that nutrient-dense.”

“And also, if you're on a cut, it helps give you more, you know, volume of your food. But you could buy frozen vegetables. They last a long time. You boil them up and you've got yourself some, you know, some vegetables you can eat, and they're very inexpensive. Frozen broccoli is cheap. Yeah, this is something I'm kicking up in my diary.”

“You are not your brain. You are not your brain. Yeah. That sounds really interesting. Yeah, it is. It's very interesting. It reminds me of How Emotions Are Made, which is another great book. I remember you talking about it. And then Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow, another great book. Both those are great books.”

“Because if you have somebody who the book, How Emotions Are Made, does a really good job of breaking this down. Your makes judgments. Your brain makes judgments. Exactly, whether you like it or not. So let's say, you know, you take those three different scenarios.”

“Usable energy-wise. Yeah, I like potatoes for that reason for sure. I feel it. Same thing. So sweet potatoes are my favorite. Sweet potatoes and yams are my favorite because I can eat them with nothing on them. They're actually pretty good. They're just so good. Yeah, I can't do that with white potatoes. Yeah, white potatoes, a little butter, and I feel like I need something on it.”

“And so more, I would say. But again, the three of those, again, rotating through the white potatoes, yellow potatoes, red potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, all great sources of carbohydrates, all easy. And then also similar to the rice, mixes so well with eggs for breakfast and with other things.”

“I had a lot of protein and it tastes great. The honey made it sweet. We used to call that GORP. Really? Yeah, I don't know why, but yeah. I think you're right. Look up GORP. I never even heard of that. I thought it was like a trail mix. It was kind of like you might be right. Take it for, yeah, I'm sure it was raisins, peanuts.”

“trail mix. Nuts, dried fruits, and sometimes grains. Is GORP an acronym? Is that what it is? It must be raisins. I don't know what O is for. Yeah, I don't know what O is for, but GORP is so. I don't know. Speaking of honey, I want to talk about this because Manuka honey is getting quite popular now.”

“So it was terrible. So anyway, it's a good book, though. It's actually a really good book. It's called You Are Not Your Brain. At least the first 10 pages of it. No, no, it's really good. I'm already an hour or so into it. I'm listening to it. Okay. So essentially, the guy who wrote it is, he came up with strategies for people with OCD or addictions or bad habits.”

“And so it's very similar to how I used to coach people, which is pretty interesting because it works. What's the name of the book? You are not your brain. You are not your brain. Yeah. That sounds really interesting. Yeah, it is. It's very interesting. It reminds me of How Emotions Are Made, which is another great book. I remember you talking about it.”

“Yeah, so I'm like ripping the bed like this, like trying to get through it. I had that one. And then I was better. I think I was at one point. I was like kind of allergic to codeine and didn't know it. And it was on an empty stomach and like it had that same thing. Like my stomach was knots and just I was like doubled over.”

“But yeah, dude. So, anyways, so they were like, oh, just do an Epsom salt bath, you know, and then it's all going to be fine. And, and, you know, and so I was like, I did the Epsom salt bath.”

“Super cheap. That's about it. Oh, it's amazing. You saw me eating mine today. It's a staple for me. Either cottage cheese or Greek yogurt. I literally just bounce between the two just to get like some sort of novelty. I just came off my kick of my Greek yogurts, which is the two that I eat two of them that have 20 grams each in it.”

“When I was trying to eat like a lot of calories, when I was trying to bulk as a kid, my thing was oatmeal, peanut butter, protein powder, and then I would add honey to it. And it was good. It tastes great. And the calories were high. I had a lot of protein and it tastes great.”

“But I feel like the oatmeal always satisfied me and I was, it was good for a couple of days. So, what are you dieting? When I was trying to eat like a lot of calories, when I was trying to bulk as a kid, my thing was oatmeal, peanut butter, protein powder, and then I would add honey to it. And it was good.”

“20 grams each in it. I mix that with blueberries. That's a staple. And then when I get bored of that for a while, I switch over to cottage cheese with pineapple in it. And it's just like, it's an easy go-to. And it tastes like a dessert. It tastes good. Cottage cheese used to be a bodybuilder staple in the 80s and early 90s.”

“When I was trying to eat like a lot of calories, when I was trying to bulk as a kid, my thing was oatmeal, peanut butter, protein powder, and then I would add honey to it. And it was good. It tastes great. And the calories were high. I had a lot of protein and it tastes great.”

“It reminds me of How Emotions Are Made, which is another great book. I remember you talking about it. And then Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow, another great book. Both those are great books. It didn't, the guy, the Nobel Prize winner is the one that did the Thinking Fast and Slow. I can't think of his name off the top of my head right now.”

“They've got your proteins in there. You can make them a lot of different ways. The protein quality is the best that you can find. Whey and eggs, some of the best you can find. They're phenomenal. And again, they're super versatile and they're very inexpensive.”

“And so more, I would say. But again, the three of those, again, rotating through the white potatoes, yellow potatoes, red potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, all great sources of carbohydrates, all easy. And then also similar to the rice, mixes so well with eggs for breakfast and with other things.”

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