Make Your Own Weight Gainers and Save Big!

My son is 17 years old, stands 5 feet 6 inches and weighs 180 pounds. It would be easy to assume that he is over weight or even obese by some standards. He actually only has about 10% body fat and is trying to gain lean muscle weight because he is a competitive bodybuilder. His goal is to get up to 210 pounds in the next 2 years. Needless to say, he has to eat a lot to gain this much weight. Unfortunately, I am not the kind of person that spends money freely, I investigate every expenditure I make to ensure I always get the best value for my hard earned money.
I have to admit that I have spent a few dollars at the local GNC buying weight gain supplements. Unfortunately, spending $60 for a weight gainer with only about 10-12 servings doesn't go very far, especially when they recommend taking 3-4 servings per day. So, being the consummate shopper, I did a little investigation and found the main ingredient in any weight product is maltodextrin. Maltodextrin is complex carb that can be purchased for under $2.00 per pound from many different websites. The other ingredient in weight gainers is protein. Buy the protein and maltodextrin from a wholesaler on the internet to ensure you are getting the best prices; you should only pay about $30.00 for your protein (5 pounds of whey isolate).
So, if you go buy 20 pounds of maltodextrin for about $15.00 and mix with 5 pounds of whey isolate or whey concentrate protein, you can create about 25 pounds of your very own weight gainer for about $45.00 and you get about 5 times as much product for less money. Most supplement companies would have you take about 10-12 70c scoops of this stuff 3 or 4 times a day. This will yield about 1,000-1,300 calories. In my humble opinion, you can't consume all this powder and still eat a normal well balanced diet. My personal recommendation is to cut the serving size in half.
To make an even better weight gainer that you won't find in any product in the stores, try mixing 10 pounds of maltodextrin ($15.00), 10 pounds of Waxy Maize ($25.00), 5 pounds of whey isolate ($30.00) and 5 pounds of micellar casein ($35.0) This concoction will come make up about 30 pounds of an the best weight gainer you can imagine. If you take one scoop of each, you will have 529 calories per serving with 39 grams of protein, still have room in your stomach to eat a normal diet and pack on quality pounds. Each scoop would be the standards 70cc scoop. Note: the waxy maize and maltodextrin are almost exactly twice as dense, so even though the proteins are in 5 pound quantities, all 4 of the volumes of these products are virtually identical.
These product formulas will not be flavored, so you still need to flavor. If you are trying to gain weight, then simply add in Nestle Quick to get the flavoring you want and you have your very own weight gainer and haven't wasted your hard earned money!

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