Cooking for a boyfriend on a bulk.

I've come away from this thread with the following thoughts:

I'm glad I didn't live with a boyfriend until we were both adults.

I'm glad my husband isn't a picky eater. He can't even boil water but he eats anything I put in front of him. Lucky for him I'm a good cook.

I have little patience for picky eaters (adults, that is, kids are a different matter) in general. If you're too persnickety or whiny or precious to try something new, I will tend to think you're the kind of person who is very set in their ways, closed-minded, and rigid. Judgmental? Yeah, a little.

To the OP, I agree with the others. Let him double his portions of pasta if he wants to gain weight. You can't force-feed him something he doesn't want. If you're tired of cooking pasta, teach him how to do it and cook tasty food for yourself.

Try recipes like this one, it's italian, it's DELICIOUS and it's high in calories. You can replace the ground beef with veggie meat, I used to do it all the time when I was vegetarian and the recipe really tastes exactly the same. Trust me he will bulk up eating this kind of thing, haha.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/baked-spaghetti-2/

seems like pasta would help him gain

bulking isn't just about eating at a caloric surplus. Its about properly set macros, so eating two helpings of pasta may result in weight gain not muscle gain.
google how much protein your body can store at once and process, and how long it takes to process. A person's body cannot hold onto protein, so once that max amount has been processed it is time for some more. google how much protein is needed during a bulk, I do 1 gram per 1 lb of body weight. If just eating pasta in the past has not resulted in muscle gain then he may not be taking in enough protein. Also look up how much muscle a man can put on in one month, if he is gaining more than this it's fat. On a bulk you don't want to go crazy with your gain because when you go to reveal you will just lose some muscle trying to take all the fat off you just put on. You should also google what foods give protein if he is not eating meat.
If he calculates his bmr, plus how much surplus he needs and sets his macros right, as well as working until failure trying to increase weight often he will build muscle. If he's not than he's either not hitting his nutrient goals or working out hard enough.
You should take time to use google, or pm me for the websites. If you just use google instead of posting on the forums about your bf you wont get attacked. Because you need to understand we do not need some info, you gave us most of the wrong info We need his height, weight, macros ratios, daily caloric intake, and his strength training program. We do not need to know how well the relationship functions, about his relatives, really nothing like that needs to be mentioned just all suggestions so prevent you from a storm
pm me if you have a hard time locating this information, but this is the info you need to print for him, he can read it and re-formulate his plan.

He's a vegetarian and a momma's boy. I would say get rid of him.

Mmmm... My Italian is a momma's boy through and through, it's why I married him, coupled with his delish love of cooking =D

Edit to add; I don't know if I could handle him being vegetarian!

He's the one who asks me to cook him food that will help him bulk but in the end when I suggest something for him to eat he doesn't want to try it and asks for something he already knows. I am perfectly fine with the way he is now but he says he wants to be big and strong.

No, I totally get this - I currently live with a dude who asks me to cook stuff, but then turns his nose up if it seems weird to him, and then asks me to make him something else. He's also trying to be big and strong. However, he's my 6-year-old kid. And if he doesn't want to eat what I make, he can (and does) get his own food. I've also stopped wiping his @$$ for him, too.

It's fine if the division of labor in your house involves you cooking - and it's fine if he doesn't want to eat what you cook. But a dynamic wherein either 1) he asks you to cater to his high maintenance, picky, seemingly childish tastes, or 2) you try to force/trick/coerce him into changing - neither of these lead to a healthy relationship. I do most of the cooking here, and when my hubs doesn't want to eat what I cook, he says "don't worry about me, I'll get something." And I don't, and he does. Happy ending.

I also am with a mama's boy - but his mama taught him that when someone cooks you dinner, you say thank you and eat it. I wouldn't put up with this level of wishy washy pickiness from a child. The thought of it from a grown man makes my ovaries die a little bit.

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He's the one who asks me to cook him food that will help him bulk but in the end when I suggest something for him to eat he doesn't want to try it and asks for something he already knows. I am perfectly fine with the way he is now but he says he wants to be big and strong. Also considering he has eaten Italian food all his life and hasn't gained any weight from it, I think the thing to do now is to try to cook something different than he's used to in order to help him gain the weight he's wanted to gain for years.
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I think you have half your answer here. You ask him what he wants to eat. In our house, the is little discussion on this. My wife cooks what she thinks we will like, tied in with something she knows we will like. Work this with introducing 1 thing at a time and see what happens. When all is said and done, he isn't going to starve and you aren't going to kill him.

Came in thinking I might be able to help......then I read "vegetarian"

I read the title as "Looking for a boyfriend on a bulk" - thought it might be a chubby chaser post...

I suggest searching the store at bodybuilding.com for a wide variety of vegan supplements. You name it, they most likely have it. Hope this helps!