Having trouble increasing my protein

I agree, eat tuna, or canned salmon if you prefer. Shrimp is high protein low fat, and bags of frozen shrimp often go on sale (at my grocery store, at least). It's easy to thaw out a serving and cook it up in just a few minutes. Try switching to greek yogurt if you haven't already, it has about double the protein per serving as regular yogurt. Cottage cheese also, you can mix it with fruit OR make it savory by adding a bit of shredded cheese, ham, veggies, whatever. Make oatmeal with milk instead of water. Some whole grain products have more protein than you'd think. The bread I get from Trader Joe's has 4 grams per slice, and Flat Out flatbread has 9 grams of protein per wrap, so keep an eye out for those kinds of things, too.

I had the same problem. A 4oz chicken breast has 25 grams of protein, so they are my new friends. I also have one or two protein shakes a day. I also found these cool things called whey crisps that you can add to pretty much anything. I put them in my Greek yogurt, oatmeal, peanut butter sandwiches etc. I see you say you don't like cottage cheese. I don't either, but recently tried a recipe for cottage cheese, oatmeal, and egg white pancakes that is sooo good! You blend the ingredients in a blender and the cottage cheese looses the clumps and takes on the flavor of the vanilla and cinnamon. 1 serving has over 30 grams! Good luck!

As much as the taste sometimes can take some getting used to...Soy products and fish are a very good source of protien. Try Tofu or if you'd like a treat try some different soy milk (just watch the calories). Another interesting fact is that some vegtibles also contain protien. I suggest looking at what is local and trying what's in season. Good luck.

Edamame has 17 grams of protein per cup. You boil it, salt it, then eat it like peanuts. They're kind of addictive. Great snack or side.

Lentils are also very high in protein.

I usually eat frigo light cheeseheads (8 grams of protein), lentils, greek yogurt (2x protein one), protein bars (there is one called The Simply Bar...I'm not sure if you can find it but there are many different flavors...I like cocoa (16 grams of protein) and peanut butter one (which I believe is 16 grams as well), and I drink milk, and oo eggs!

I used to have huge problems with my protein and I'm still working on reliably getting the numbers where I want them (right now I'm aiming for 90 but I should really be going for 115ish). Larger portions of meat, eating fish at least twice a week - usually tilapia, flounder, or catfish as they're all lower in mercury, sustainable fish that are usually on sale around here - switching to greek yogurt most of the time (I still eat my sheep yogurt sometimes because I love it so much!), and a lot of boiled eggs have all helped me get the numbers up. At some point I may give in and start using a protein shake, but I'm really hoping I can make it work with just food. I've always been a low protein eater, so this is an entirely different dietary mindset for me!

As others suggested, grilling/baking up a large quantity of chicken breasts and then refrigerating them makes a real easy addition to most meals. Sometimes I just slice up a chicken breast and eat it with a healthy dip/sauce of some sort. Peanut, bbq, or honey mustard usually. Tempeh is a great source of protein and so is quinoa, I also switched to a bread with more protein in it.

Good question. What's NROL recommend? I have a book from the same author and it said for it's workouts ... 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight.... but that would mean I'd have to down 230 grams of protein and that's... not fun nor is it practical. Especially later when you have to poop and it just doesn't work.

I found perfectly fine results at 0.5 to 0.7 grams of protein per pound while I was lifting. I'm not a huge fan of cottage cheese but I found this Darigold pineapple cottage cheese that makes it pretty tasty. Or you can take plain cottage cheese and dump some fruit in.

If you can't stand the taste of your protein shake, ... try different ones. They all taste different. Or throw it all in a blender, add a banana, tbsp of peanut butter. When I was trying to get to the 1gram/lb goal...i was doing multiple protein shakes... cause there's only so much chicken/steak you can eat in a day. But then the digestive problems started and I had to cut back.

Frozen chicken breast strips have helped me immensely. Heat up a 3 oz serving for 20g of protein, roll them up in a low carb tortilla (another 8), with a half oz of shredded cheese (about 4) and a 1/2 tables spoon of salad dressing, and you have 32 g for very low calories. Pair it with a salad and it's a complete meal.

Take 8oz of greek yogurt, add a scoop of whey and stir aggressively. Add berries.

Thank your main bro sidesteal for the hookups.

I have this almost everyday as a snack. I use chocolate whey and strawberries. So good!