Are Weight Gainers worth it ?

It's not worth spending large amounts of money on something which is just more calories and protein. Having protein shakes and just eating more is cheaper.

Oats and milk are the greatest weight gainer if you can't manage to get the food intake. Cheap as hell and decent source of carbs and protein.

You measure your intake with scale and using the nutritional value on the back - you can't just guess how much you're taking in until you're more experienced. Doesn't matter how many meals you have either, as long as you hit the macros. The reason people think more meals is better is because bodybuilders do this, however they're ignoring the fact that they're on great deals of slin which is why they do this.

High carbs, medium protein and low fats is what's best. Add white rice to every meal (don't listen to the bull**** about brown rice being better - white will fill you up less therefore you can eat more in my experience). Add instant oats to every shake you have. Mix with milk.

Learn to eat, any supps are useless unless you learn to eat a proper gym diet first.

Use soy milk as an alternative, not as many calories as standard milk but more than water. Add peanut butter, bananas, etc to shakes and blend. Need more calorie dense foods in your diet.

Hmm thanks for this , though im not too sure if it would be worth dumping loads of calorie dense foods in soy milk (practically water) , to get the same I would get through a weight gainer I would probably go through so much peanut butter , nuts , etc that it would probably work out more expensive.

Nowhere near, just did some maths and a shake with 2 heaped scoops of oats, soy, peanut butter and a banana adds up to 745 calories. In a single shake. Just picked a generic weight gainer from a decent website and you'd need about 200G of that to hit the same calories, which in a 2.5kg bag will last you 12 days. So £30 for every 12 days isn't cheap. Obviously other brands/products but I picked the one I always use and it's one of the cheapest/best quality in my opinion.

Weight gainers are expensive and pointless but if you have money to throw away then go for it. They're expensive oats with some fillers and protein thrown in.

I've heard this from various places , It does make more sense.

Hope you don't mind if I ask a few questions.

Do you measure how much of each thing you make ? I do eat quite large portions but its going to be hard to be sure im meeting macros if im just making large portions of tuna and pasta , chicken and rice etc.

How much meals do you eat per day ?

, I used to have a light breakfast (oats most probably) or on the odd day that I start late i'd have a few boiled eggs with toast and beans.

Lunch - Carbs + a chicken breast,

Dinner which consisted of some variation of white meat ,( I don't eat red meat) with sweet potatoes , rice or pasta .

A shake after gym and a shake before bed.

Without the weight gainer I severely doubt this is going to meet my maintenance of around 3000 . and a surplus of 3500 as im trying to bulk.

I guess im going to have to start eating alot more

£30 for 12 days of water calories, even Arnold wouldn't promote this scam.

I wish that was true, his Arnold series **** is more expensive that the other crap out there.

Nowhere near, just did some maths and a shake with 2 heaped scoops of oats, soy, peanut butter and a banana adds up to 745 calories. In a single shake. Just picked a generic weight gainer from a decent website and you'd need about 200G of that to hit the same calories, which in a 2.5kg bag will last you 12 days. So £30 for every 12 days isn't cheap. Obviously other brands/products but I picked the one I always use and it's one of the cheapest/best quality in my opinion.

Weight gainers are expensive and pointless but if you have money to throw away then go for it. They're expensive oats with some fillers and protein thrown in.

Nowhere near, just did some maths and a shake with 2 heaped scoops of oats, soy, peanut butter and a banana adds up to 745 calories. In a single shake. Just picked a generic weight gainer from a decent website and you'd need about 200G of that to hit the same calories, which in a 2.5kg bag will last you 12 days. So £30 for every 12 days isn't cheap. Obviously other brands/products but I picked the one I always use and it's one of the cheapest/best quality in my opinion.

Weight gainers are expensive and pointless but if you have money to throw away then go for it. They're expensive oats with some fillers and protein thrown in.

Hi guys , been steadily lifting for almost 5 months now , I've doubled my strength since I began lifting , put on almost 8kg of mass (Have no clue how much of this is water weight) and made numerous adjustments to my diet .

I've had a long break from lifting as I was away over Christmas and when I got back I was overwhelmed with work and studying , I figured it would be pretty stupid of me to start lifting again until I got my studies on track.

Anyway up until Christmas I was taking Serious Mass , a weight gainer from optimum nutrition -

http://uk.bodybuilding.com/store/opt/sm.html?mcid=GGL_UK_Products-Products_Optimum_Serious_Mass&bbkwid=235411394 - About £25 per tub which lasts a week. You can imagine how that adds up,

. Ridiculously expensive , yet one of the best weight gainers i've seen in terms of calories per serving , though the scoops are huge. 800 calories per scoop. It was quite convenient as it meant I could be flexible with my diet , If I woke up late I could have a quick shake for breakfast rather than skip it.

This year im trying to save money where I can for Uni , so I have to cut back on spending so much on nutrition.

One of the key reasons I took the gainer is because my family are pescatarians so they rarely have meat for dinner , It sucks belonging to a pescatarian family , I would never reach my macros without the shakes , when I was bulking I had to cook all my own meals and it cost ****loads.

Does anyone here know whether its worth buying such an expensive shake ? Or perhaps any natural weight gainer recipes that work out to be cheaper ? (I have a dairy allergy)