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How to gain weight from eating almost exclusively bread and potatoes? (lemmy.nz)

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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.

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[-] Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

So why not just do a shot of rapeseed oil and be done with it? Why even involve the potato?

Am I going too far? Maybe. Will that stop me from trying? No.

[-] Fearpanic@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

did that some time ago, it's not particularly nice tastewise, but you can just chug one or two shots a day - that's about 700kcal if you do 40ml per "serving" the YouTuber "DougDoug" did something similar for his diet. if you buy the cheapest oil (here it's sunflower I think) you'll get extremely many calories per unit of Money. in Germany that's about 3000 kcal per 1€

[-] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You absolutely can, if that's what works for you. Nutritionally, there's no difference between eating oil with a meal or separately. Lots of people take olive oil shots or mix butter in coffee or whatever and that's OK. That approach can be particularly good if it's helpful to think about it more like a supplement than a meal.

People may recommend against that in favor of working it into a meal you won't hate eating, and there's some merit to that for some people. But if eating is going to suck either way, just start by doing the thing that gets you calories. Work toward getting a mix of protein, fat, and carbohydrates (with potatoes + oil + eggs you have all 3) and fiber too. (potatoes have a bit) The rest can come later.

This page has a table of cheapest cost-per-calorie foods alongside some other general recommendations that may or may not be helpful. Notable items from that table are flour, bread, sugar, pasta, rice, olive oil, ramen, peanut butter, pinto beans, and lentils.

Ultimately though any food you'll eat is always better than any food you won't. A calorie is a calorie pretty much no matter what form it takes. You got this!

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