Clean Mass Gain

Clean Mass Gain

Dallas’ highly anticipated Clean Mass Gain article is coming out today in the September 2011 edition of Performance Menu. You can purchase the article here for $2.50, but we highly recommend that you instead get a subscription to their annual journal and devour everything they have to say. Wondering what Performance Menu all about?

For just under $30 a year, you could be reading original fitness, health, performance and nutrition articles written by smart folks like Greg Everett, Robb Wolf, Scott Hagnas, Yael Grauer and Jim Bathurst. This ain’t your Momma’s functional fitness journal – you’ll fine unique perspectives, refreshing topics and tons of practical application in each issue. (I’m pretty sure we went through all this when Dallas’ sleep article came out a few months ago… so why don’t you already have a subscription?)

Clean Mass Gain Recipes

To accompany the Performance Menu CMG article, we’re posting four between-meal recipes Dallas used throughout the course of his clean mass gain journey. They’re all designed to go down easy (read: beat the satiety signal your stomach sends to your brain), and pack in as many calories as possible. And the best part? They’re all grain, dairy and legume-free.

Happy eating!

Tons of Tapioca

• 8 cups of water
• 1.5 cups of small pearl tapioca – 960 calories
• 1 -13.5 oz. can of coconut milk – 720 calories
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 envelopes of unflavored Knox gelatin (optional) – 40 calories

Bring the water to a boil. Add the tapioca and cook for approximately 18 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add coconut milk and seasonings. (Optionally, if you like a thicker tapioca, add Knox gelatin.) Cook for an additional 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Total estimated calories: 1,720

Soup on Steroids

• Butternut squash soup (either make your own, or use the 32 oz. Imagine Brand) – 360 calories
• 1 -13.5 oz. can of coconut milk – 720 calories
• 1 – 15 oz. can of Farmer’s Market organic sweet potato – 455 calories

Make soup. Add a can of coconut milk. Add can of sweet potato. Mix. Eat.

Total estimated calories: 1,535

Food in a Blender

• 1-13.5 oz. can of coconut milk – 720 calories
• 2 avocado – 450 calories
• 1 banana – 105 calories
• 1 pint of frozen blackberries – 260 calories
• 1 bunch watercress or spinach – 12 calories
• 3 carrots – 120 calories
• 6 eggs – 360 calories

Throw it all in (feel free to mix and match your ingredients). Blend. Slurp straight from the blender.

Total estimated calories: 2,027

An On-the-Go “Light Snack”

• 1-13.5 oz. can of coconut milk – 720 calories
• 1 – 15 oz. can of Farmer’s Market organic sweet potato – 455 calories
• 2 scoops of 100% egg white protein powder – 240 calories

Mix by hand or in a blender. Season with cinnamon, nutmeg and Allspice if desired. Pretend it’s pudding.

Total estimated calories: 1,415

Original article and pictures take whole9life.com site