I don’t know where to post this, so I’m posting it here.

I need to gain some weight because I’m borderline anorexic. But I can’t afford much more than bread, potatoes, eggs and cheese, That is my diet. And I hate eating it. It’s the only thing I can stomach that is cheap, but I hate it. I don’t want to eat eggs and potatoes for the rest of my life. I would rather die of malnutrition, like I am currently doing.

I have no appetite, but that is a symptom of something else. Ideally, there is a way to gain weight while eating less mass. Something calorie dense.

I might be slightly exaggerating. But for the last couple of years I’ve been eating potatoes and eggs for almost every single meal of the day. And yes, I eat one warm meal a day. Sometimes I suppliment with some bread to stop the hunger pains. Sometimes I also eat a piece of vegetable.

  • theherk@lemmy.world
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    Can’t go wrong here. High calorie density. Best tasting food; fight me. And actually pretty healthful.

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      Some of the food packs that were created for humanitarian organizations when they go into a place with people suffering from severe malnutrition are basically peanut butter fortified with vitamins and minerals. It’s great for getting nutrition back on track, and easier to stomach than most calorie-dense foods such as meat.

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      If you get pure peanut peanut butter. A lot of the shelf stuff has tons of sugar and salt added. Usually I’ll buy the pure stuff and cut it with a small amount of the other to sweeten it

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        In a thread about how to gain weight, you are advising against sugar sweetened peanut butter.

        In a thread about how to survive on very little money you are advising the most expensive peanut butter option.

        Get the cheapest, sugariest, oiliest jar you can find. Salt is not evil either.

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          Good point. Salt DOES drive away evil spirits. It can’t be bad.

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          Not for the body anyway. Maybe for the spirit.