I say add natural peanut butter to your protein drinks and some olive oil. Eat some extra nuts, nuts have a ton of calories and it's always easy to go over your caloric needs when eating nuts.
Another tip, have steak as much as you can. Steaks can add a ton of calories. Put cheese on things, good cheese though, not that processed crap. I've read Cheddar is a natural source of CLA.
If you're eating carbs, add butter to your taters. Or sour cream.
Don't waste money on "Weight gainers". They are way too expensive and just not worth the money. Go to the supermarket, purchase real whole quality food. Just eat. It boggles my mind that anyone would have a problem being able to eat enough to gain strength and muscle. Eating is not work, its easy, just pick up a fork.
Newbs- Count your calories and macros. Don't just wing it. Unless you've got years of experience and have seen quantifiable results with what you are eating, then you're gonna have to count.
Also if your stomach can handle it, drink Whole Milk. None of that low fat crap.
It's really pretty simple.
I thought this was a great post, and really covered ways to get extra fat in your diet, which I believe to be hugely important. So those ways listed were more natty pb, more nuts (i love almonds, walnuts, and brazil nuts), more beef (i encourage fattier cuts if it comes from a grass-fed cow), more butter (grass-fed preferred once again), and some whole milk with every meal. Other ways to get some extra fat are to eat more oils. I really enjoy just eating coconut oil right out of the jar. You can also douse most of your foods in EVOO and red palm oil, both of which are great for you and add a nice flavor. Another great way to add some additional fats is to eat more raw eggs! I get them from a farm where the chickens eat more of a primal diet as opposed to some all-grain feed. The yolks are a rich orange, and they taste so much better. The only thing to really be concerned about when eating them raw is the possibility of contaminants on the outside of the shell. So I generally will give them a good scrub with my hands if i intend on eating the egg raw.
So that pretty much covers ways to get extra fat. Then getting extra carbs in is always important too when trying to bulk imo! I don't believe it to be all that important to raise your protein requirements during a bulk, so much as you ought to be concerned about raising your fat and carbs. Good ways of getting your carb intake up are to prepare potatoes, rice, quinoa, etc in bulk. It's always nice to have lots on hand. Making a big batch of mashed sweet potatoes with some cinnamon, nutmeg, and grass-fed butter thrown in is always a great carb source to have readily available. If you don't fear fructose, then adding some extra bananas to every meal is never a bad idea either. The flavor combination of banana, natty pb, and whole milk is incredible! Also, if you can get your hands on some high quality raw honey that has not been heated or filtered, feel free to add some of that to various recipes or just have a spoonful of it after each meal for a nice little treat. Last night I was cooking some ground turkey at a friends house and didn't wanna bring too many things, so I just put some cumin, himalayan salt, and a bit of honey on the cooked turkey and mixed it all up, an the honey added an awesome sweetness to it.
I always think it's a good idea to get extra veggies and fruit in as well. I really love doing this by making shakes in the Nutribullet! It's a great way to get down a large volume of plant matter just by drinking a tasty treat. I really like using kale or spinach in there as the main ingredient. Then I generally have frozen fruit blends on hand to add in there, making it more of a cold smoothie. Bananas seem to be the perfect blender food, because they make just about anything tasty and go well w such a variety of other flavors like choco, pb, cinnamon, vanilla, fruit, veggie. It seems like a banana can enhance the taste of a shake based around any of those flavors. Again, if you would like to you can peel your bananas and keep them in the freezer for use in the shakes. I definitely prefer that.
Adding raw eggs to the shakes is great too. It may seem odd to put in a fruit/veggie blend, but it's actually quite good. The fat really helps enhance the flavor.
.... I think that's all I've got for now. I'll post more as I continue to brainstorm (I'm 4 weeks out from a BB contest, so my mind isn't so much in the bulking mind-set these days) :/