Have you tried eating more butter with your bread and potatoes?

I CAN make my own bread. But I am not allowed to. And I refuse to eat beans.

But thank you for the advice.

I second oil. There was a time in my life where I had some health issues and I had zero appetite and was underweight. Sometimes, when I could not bring myself to eat anything, I would just eat one or two spoonfuls of oil or peanut butter. It's way easier to get down than most other things.

Oil is calories. Oil helps you gain weight. Same for butter, margarine and lard. If you can find a good price on any fat, buy it and use it.

sounds like you need a medical diagnosis for whatever disorder you have.

Oil is very calorie dense

Since you mentioned that you hate cooking and have no interest in making it tasty but want efficient more calories:
Pint of ice cream.
Let it melt, drink it. 1000 calories per pint. Most of them useless, but if your goal is weight gain....

Otherwise, protein heavy diet (beans, rice, vegetables) plus a workout routine to actually build up muscles and not just fat

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

I’m glad you’re looking into vitamin c deficiency. I wasn’t listing my ingredients as suggestions, I was explaining what worked for me and hope you find some analogous recipe for your own meals. I hope you land on something affordable, maintainable, healthy and delicious!

cheese and joghurt is a good source of protein. try to eat a lot of protein and do muscle work out to not only gain fat mass but lean mass aswell. because if youre ana it might be that your body already "consumed" a lot of your muscle mass to retain enegery.

PS: coming from a former ana

Wouldn’t a multivitamin be cheaper than an energy drink?

Add more sugar to everything for cheap calories that will generally trigger more hunger. Also liquids are a good way to add calories without triggering fullness as much.

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.

You can make some Tortilla Española very delicious. There are other variations that are simpler. Just look up tortilla for recipes. You can add onions in there too.

You can add some suggars to your diet too.

Alternatives:

Bread and cheese sandwich.
Bread and jelly sandwich.
Tortilla with some chicken in there.
Chicken omlette.

Cook eggs in all kinds of ways possible, like omette, plat, poached, japanese style, souflé ...
Mashed potatoes, cooked potatoes. Fried potates, roasted potatoes; roasted potatoes with chess filling. Roasted potatoes with egg and cheese filling.

You could of course add other vegetables like tomates and onions. A moroccan salad could help you change a bit. This salad could be reduced to only two ingredients.

As much as you really can gain weigt with potatoes and bread, you need to add some proteins. Like lentils, very cheap, or just a little bit of chicken to spice it up.

One important thing is to eat more than once a day. If you really need to gain weight fast, eat at least 3 times a day. Bread and scrambeled eggs in the morning. Torrtilla for lunch, and some other kind for dinner. and a cheese sandwich for 18:00.

Have you heard of ARFID? A close family member, as well as my close friend's autistic child have this disorder. Low appetite and the visceral reactions to various food items are common with this disorder

Just remember: the school rice is not your rice; make the rice your own with butter, tumeric, a little bullion cube or dust, maybe some black pepper. Those very basic spices are relatively cheap (typically less than $5 for all three).

Considering your teeth situation soup may be your best bet since they mostly have liquid and soft veggies, but consider this: the crappy peas/lentils/chickpeas or whatever you had previously can be made to your own personal taste standards until you think it tastes good.

Source: I had to manage on 30$ a month and still managed to build muscles.

Lentils and rice. They are both dirt cheap. They complement each other as they have a different type of protein. If you throw some carrots in there you have a more tasty meal. Add some salt for taste.

Oil is more expensive, but a must.
Oil is 9 kcal per gram, carbohydrates and protein is only 4 kcal per gram. So even if oil is twice as expensive per gram it is still cheaper. It also makes you full for longer.

Ideally if you want to actually have a healthy and good tasting meal. Then add some dry boullion and some frozen vegetables. Potatoes is also an option. It is still dirt cheap, but slightly more expensive.

Try these steps:

1. Cannabis

Doesn't the Polish sugar tax only apply to beverages? I'm talking about buying raw ingredients and making cake or pancake with it, if you can afford eggs and cheese I can't quite believe that you can't afford the flour, sugar and fat/oil for a cake.

> cannabis
> cheap

Pick one.

On a calories per dollar-ratio, oil is probably at least one quarter of the price of potatoes.

The difference in electricity costs is not going to be significant in the context since you'll make back the money on the calories you ingest from the oil instead of more potatoes.

Cooking potatoes in oil is also very significantly less miserable than eating boiled potatoes, and this is coming from someone that actually likes boiled potatoes quite a bit

I mean, I guess nothing's stopping you from shoving it all in a blender and making some unholy baby food/potato smoothie

edit: oh wow there's actually a recipie

Are you eating these unseasoned straight out of the water they boiled in or was this taken during the process of cooking? Because I'd suggest some spices. Can make potatoes & eggs taste a lot of different ways with a few spices.

Egg or potato salad is decent & cheap if you can get your hands on some extra ingredients. Egg Salad Sandwich used to be one of my go-tos and you can literally make it with just egg and mayo/mustard if you wanted to (but I'd recommend adding spices & pickle)

Would add beans to your list of things to eat since they're also pretty cheap, filling, and would help you out with protein, which from your post, it sounds like you may be lacking.

tuna salad works with the same basis as egg and potato salads if they wanna spice it up

A medium potato has 30% of daily vitamin c but you need to eat the skin. So scrub potatoees and leave skin on when cooking. It will also be better to bake or fry. Even if making mashed potatoes, you can bake them and then mash with skins on. They’re better this way imo.

Been on the no chewing journey, how are you with meal replacement shakes? The bulk powders come in lots of flavours and cand be very cheap per meal. It's usually got dietary fibre, vitamins, minerals, and will healthify you far faster.

For potatoes, you need the skin included to keep nutritional value, which can be hard with no chew but doable.

You're essentially thinking newborn diet, you need calorofic nutition that's easy to eat even when you don't want to.

You got this, it'll get easier.

Can you drink milk?

Gallon of Milk a Day Diet

It makes the potato have more calories because it has oil in it.

Same amount of chewing and swallowing. More calories. It's what you want!

Butter on potatoes if that's an option too.

Hi, I recommend beans (soak them overnight) and rice.
Also, I would look into buying oats. They are a very good source of calories and are healthy for you.
Put them in a blender and soak in water for 15 minutes, add sugar and blend. This can be a supplemental meal in itself.

Hey my dude, you need some recipes and some mental health. Im happy to help on both fronts if you need.

Eggs and potatoes are easily the two most versatile substances on the planet, other ingredients to make them into things are actually equally as cheap, spices look expensive until you realize that $4 lasts up to 6 months. To add to that, I was once an incredibly picky eater and found personally and through feeding others that, outside of phobia and dietary constraints, the majority of food preferences is based on a history of bad cooking. Give me deets on your dietary limits and I'll give you every recipe I know. If there's anything you're willing to experiment with, I'll teach you everything you need to enjoy it. Anything from dry beans, to tofu, to grinding your own amaranth or acorns for flour.

If you're in the western world, mental health services are decently accessible, even in the US without insurance. Shoot me a DM me your location and situation and I'll do all the leg work, all you'll have to do is make the appointment.

As for the information provided, the recipe that springs to mind is cheese gnochi bites.

You'll need
3 large russet potatoes
2 eggs
1 cup shredded chedder or other strong cheese
1 cup flour
Salt, pepper, garlic to taste
Oil to fry in

Microwave the potatoes until baked, immediately shock in cold tap water and peal by hand. (fantastic trick for any mashed potatoes as it not only takes less time but does not add any moisture leading to fluffier potatoes)

In a large bowl, mash the potatoes and add the cheese, mix so that the cheese melts and spreads evenly.

Once incorporated, feel mix, if still hot, let it cool until luke warm or cool to the touch then mix in the eggs and spices.

Finally, add flour until it holds together when scooped.

Heat oil on medium in either a pot or skillet depending on oil availability and intended shape.

If using a pot with at least an inch of oil, scoop a glob of potato with a spoon and use another spoon to scrape it into the pot. Fry until golden all the way around.

If using a skillet with shallow oil, put the glob in the pan and gently press it flat leaving some thickness. Then flip like a Patty when golden.

If you have access to gallon bags, you can put the mix in the bag, cut off a corner, and squeeze the mix into the fry like a piping bag. Either making dollups for deep oil or doing a tight spiral for shallow.

Let cool on a wire rack but eat warm. Oil can be strained of bits and stored to fry with later.

You can also add extra cheese and cook in an air-fryer but the texture won't be fried so much as baked. The extra cheese gets more oil in the mix to help the exterior crust up.

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

Eat some right before bed.

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.

You are experiencing diet fatigue (which is a potentially fatal condition)

Buy sugar and spices; start growing some micro greens to supplement your diet (to prevent scurvy and folic acid deficiency)

Onion is are also a reasonable source of vitamins.

No, drop the energy drink completely. What are you thinking, that's your problem right there. It's expensive, and probably accounts for half your food spending. It's also fucking terrible health wise especially if you aren't eating much of anything else. There is no such thing as "supplementing" with an energy drink.

Things that are cheap and good imo: rice, lentils, bulk nuts, canned beans, tuna tin cans and veggies in general. Porridge sucks but it's easy to make and cheap. If you want to avoid energy use while cooking, look into cooking in a thermos, stuff like couscous, porridge or noodle soups.

Hunt specials and change where you buy thing if needed. If you don't like veggies, boil and blend. Ration of like 1/3 potato, 2/3 veggie, stock, plus some onion and garlic.

Get the oil, it's basically where people get half their calories.

What's your budget anyways (food total, include the money spent on fast food and energy drinks).

Nicotine and Metabolism

I've known people in shockingly similar situations that turned their life around by quitting smoking. Mostly from money savings, weight gains, and they, eventually (after withdrawal symptoms went away), got a lot less irritable and felt sick less often.

Per day a multivitamin is way cheaper. But per container it probably seems like a "big" investment for the multivitamin jar.

My meal smoothie is basically banana, white beans, spinachs, frozen fruits, lemon flavored yogurt and soy milk. I'd also add hemp hearts (expensive but super dense), nuts and a few other things. Also vanilla and almond extract for taste.

Thick blended soups are also an option. You can just drink them.

You mentioned vegetables, thank goodness, but also have a piece of fruit whenever you can afford it. Good for vitamin C to help you get the iron out of those eggs, a calorie boost from the sugar, and an assortment of other nutrients especially if you vary the fruits. Also a little fiber for your heart and to help move those other foods along in your gut.

If there's a farmers market in your area, go before closing and ask if they have some seconds they can sell you for half price. This goes for vegetables too.

Quesadillas

Fat goes a long way in both seasoning and adding calories. Any kind of vegetable oil, butter, lard, whiever is cheap where you live. Get the pan hot with the oil, turn the heat down and add the potato and let it brown. The browning, also known as the Maillard effect, adds a lot of flavor

Does it? Everything that contains sugar got more expensive once the tax went into law.

Also. I never said I "can't afford" these things. Just that they are expensive. I said I can't afford a bottle of coke. Because the price will put my family in generational debt. Although my budget is about 12 cents when adjusting for currency. So I guess, yes, I can't afford them. I am being fed and housed by family. I don't get to be picky, I either eat what is given or not at all. And often I prefer to not eat.

They give me gas. And that is painful. Like, can't fall asleep painful.

Eggs and cheese are the cheapest and most nutritious foods around. Bread is a staple of any healthy diet. People used to live on just bread and water for months or even years. How much do you pay for 100 grams of cheese on average? And how expensive is a loaf of bread where you live? Whole grain, obviously.

Would you look at that... They call it a "smoothie" 'cause it's "smooth". That is so funny. Although at this point, isn't it just soup? Cream of potato? Or something. I really need to get back to growing mushrooms to make some cream of mushroom soup.

Lactose. I will shit my guts out if I do that. Also, ice cream is expensive. Would love to bulk up on it, but it would kill me. First with diarrhea, then with a heart attack once I see how much I paid for that ice cream.

And I need SOME fat. I am literally a skeleton. Going to the gym WILL kill me in this state. Not even exercising, just GOING there.

Nah... I'm fine.

I bought multivitamin. It was on sale.