There is nothing wrong with eating milk, peanut butter, bread, or jam . . .
Sugar, sugar, and more sugar . . . Sugar is not a necessary nutrient.
Not many people can eat 4000 calories a day of clean food.
Well, we agree here, but I guess it depends upon what his goals are. Not many people can save 50% of their income, either. That does not change the financial advice I give when asked.
Mark Rippetoe, often recommends an extra gallon of whole milk everyday while doing his starting strength program(which the OP is doing) If you want optimal muscle gains.
Look, no offense here, because I think Rippetoe is a great strength coach, but Mr. Rippetoe is FAT. I doubt that the poster asking diet advice wants to look like that. I certainly don't. Google his name and click on images. I follow some of his technique advice on lifting, especially videos where he is showing technique, but not his diet advice.
This is a bit extreme, especially for older people, I agree. But an extra 500 calories in whole milk(5 cups), I think is acceptable, even though it's an extra 60g of sugar.
Holy crap, 60g of sugar? A Coca Cola has only 39 g of sugar! LOL!
I think sugar is bad. I am in my 40s. I have visible abs, stand 6 feet, and weigh 220 pounds. When cutting, I remove almost all fruit because of the sugar content. I think due to my age I have a perspective that is probably valuable to the poster asking for diet advice.
When I was younger, I followed something looking like your diet advice. I could bench press 315 for 6 repetitions without the use of steroids, but I did not look as good as I do now. The difference is in the diet. Back then I looked smooth. No cuts. That is what that diet will do for you. Make you look puffy and smooth. No augment here that you can't get strong on it. You can. I agree. I did it.
But I WISH I had known back then what I know now about diet.
I'll let the poster asking diet advice hash out your arguments and mine and decide on his own which seems most appropriate for his own situation. My recommendation is that increased calories come in the form of meat and eggs. He should then consume carbohydrates on lifting days sufficient to fuel his training, but only from complex sources (oatmeal, brown rice, fibrous vegetables).
Yep, it is more difficult to eat this way than Jeremy E.'s way, but the results will be so much more worth it.
It's badassity . . . wink.