College Brahs GTFIH **UK preferably but if Americans have contributions that's ok**

[PatrickWayne96]

How do you guys budget food and sups?

[EnjoiChris]

Had part time job and basically just eat rice broccoli and chicken with pasta sauce

[ConnorJS]

Technically not a student for 3 months, but living with less money than one! I'm going to make 2 lists, one with cheap foods and one with where to get them.

Foods:
Whey (www.myprotein.com is your friend)
Chicken
Tuna
Oats
Pasta
Veggies (carrots, potatoes, onions etc)
Fruit (apples, oranges, pears etc)
Eggs

Now this is how you shop on a budget, these shops will save your wallet:

Farmfoods (find one!), from here I get 5kg chicken breast for £15! I also get 1kg carrots for 50p a chitton of onions for 70p, potatoes cost nothing and oats are pretty cheap too. Pasta is 89p for a kg, same for spaghetti. Also 15 medium eggs for £1....

B&M (again, find one!) from here I get 5 160g tins of tuna for £2... That is like 3-4x cheaper than the supermarket, you can often find pasta sauces 3 for £1, they often have fresh noodles (cook in 2 minutes) 3 for £1.

Lidl now this is more like your regular supermarket, they have pretty much everything and again it's dirt cheap. £2.20 for 400g cheese (get the purple packet extra mature stuff), they have whole BBQ coated chickens for £3 (find one that's 30% off and has low sell by). Fuit and veg is good here too, at the moment it's exotic season so large pineapples are like 65p.

Me and my girlfriend probably spend £20 per week and I'm bulking at 3000 cals and 160g protein per day. The trick is not to shop in mainstream supermarkets, go to all the different budget stores and find what's cheapest in each. I have a very good memory for prices and numbers so if you don't, take a pen and paper with you and write down all the good deals so you don't pay 80p for carrots in Lidl when you could have paid 50p in Farmfoods. Hoped this helped, I ended up waffling a lot more than I intended haha.

[Sponge19]

Keep an eye out for markets/stalls/independent sellers. Just got 4 bananas for 40p because they are 'too old' (nothing wrong with them) Sometimes you can get deals on stuff that's about to pass it's use by date, such as bread which can be thrown straight in the freezer.

[ConnorJS]

Keep an eye out for markets/stalls/independent sellers. Just got 4 bananas for 40p because they are 'too old' (nothing wrong with them) Sometimes you can get deals on stuff that's about to pass it's use by date, such as bread which can be thrown straight in the freezer.

I get most of my bread from the co-op at 20-30p per loaf. Get it in the freezer and defrost as and when you need.

[Sponge19]

I get most of my bread from the co-op at 20-30p per loaf. Get it in the freezer and defrost as and when you need.

There you go OP! Obviously own brand is cheaper for pretty much everything. You can get huge bags of pasta dirt cheap. Don't think it tastes as good personally but it's hardly terrible and if you want to save some cash, you're sorted.

[PatrickWayne96]

Thanks lads. I'm definitely saving this thread. One more thing, if any of you drink or party regularly at Uni how do you avoid it from hurting gains?

[Jaywalking]

When I was boarding, I bought lots of food in bulk at grocery stores that weren't cheapy but also cheap. Basically the bulk of my food was bread, oats, chicken, cheese and yogurt, sounds like all the guys above covered it. i guess just in general dont buy **** you dont need

And to your above question about drinking, most of my friends that drink and lift a lot told me that if they get wasted from a party it won't hurt their gains if they eat enough the next day and ignore the hangover, and also if their lifting days are 1 or preferably 2 days apart... like for example if you drank on a friday and your next lifting sesh was monday unless you drank the entire keg you should be fine... they have pretty high alcohol tolerances though

[AlexRyan1]

Thanks lads. I'm definitely saving this thread. One more thing, if any of you drink or party regularly at Uni how do you avoid it from hurting gains?

I just take the next day off and make sure im back in the gym 2 days after so I don't start skipping gym, drink a lot of water next day and try not to drink spirits to the point of being sick to frequently

Money for food is alright tho I go to aldi and stuff get it on the cheap but money for going out is a whole nother issue lol