Weight Gainers: What did YOU eat today?

I am copying the many times copied thread, "What did you eat today?" in hopes of helping some of those who are just starting to gain and have no clue what to eat. I know that when I began weight recovery, I was eating tons of low-cal foods just because that's what I was used to. I learned the hard way that dense foods are essential to weight gain when you have high caloric requirements (at one point I needed 4500 cal to maintain my weight on BEDREST). Perhaps newbies can get some ideas if we post our weight gain meal plans! Even if you're not gaining anymore, grab an old one and post it!:]

Please note that every body is different and some will need more or less calories than others to gain. This thread is just so that you can get an idea of what you need.

Oh, and yes, I'm breaking the "no calories, no portions" rule, since it is pretty helpful in this case. If you want to post cals/portions you can. I just ask that you don't post if you're not eating enough, though as this is a weight gain thread, I would hope none of you are undereating.;]

I'll start....

Breakfast (875 cal)*

• 1/2 cup oatmeal (150) cooked with
• 1 cup evaporated whole milk (300)
• 1 mashed banana (100)
• 2 tbsp peanut butter (200)
• 1 tbsp ground flaxseed and cinnamon to taste (50) 
• 1 hard-boiled egg (75 cal)

Morning Snack (300 cal)*

• 1/4 cup mixed nuts (200)
• 1/4 cup dried apricots (100)

Lunch (660 cal)*

• 1/4 cup rice cooked in 1 cup chicken stock (300) and
• 1/2 cup canned or cooked chickpeas (145) and
• 1/3 cup shredded cheese (150) and
• 1/4 cup each onion, peppers, and tomato (30) cooked with
• 1 tbsp olive oil and curry powder to taste (120)

Afternoon snack (390 cal)*

• 1 serving baby carrots (35)
• 1/4 cup hummus (155)
• 1/4 cup mixed nuts (200)

Dinner (875 cal)*

• 1 cup of my insane Mac & Cheese recipe (515)
• 2 cups tossed salad (45)
• 2 tbsp rasins (60)
• 2 tbsp sunflower seeds (105)
• 2 tbsp dressing (150)

Evening snack (480)*

• 1 cup plain whole milk yogurt (180)
• 1/2 cup homemade granola (300)

About 3600 calories :]

Breakfast: 3 packs of oatmeal and an energy drink

Lunch: Turkey Taco Salad with salsa and 2 corn muffins and an apple

Snack: 2 Fruit Cups

Dinner: 1 Chicken Breast with veggies

*I don't count*

(If I need more food, I'll have oatmeal at night)

Don't need too much to gain at the mo as I'm just starting seriously on weight gain- I'm currently 5ft 6 and 85/6 pounds- short term goal is 92 which I have 2 make 2 go on holiday with my friends in mid June time.

Soooooooooo,

Breakfast: 1/4 cup granola with soft prunes on top

Snack: Ensure plus (330 cals- British kind!)

Lunch: 1 cup diced fried aubergine, tomatoes and onions, 1 70cal yogurt

Snack: Ensure plus (330cals)

Supper: chicken, corn and carrot curry with small tablespoon rice, 1/2 corn on the cob and 1 pink lady apple

Snack: options hot choc made with 200ml semi-skimmed milk (150cals)

Total- 1500/1600 ish ( only count so I know how much I need to gain weight and how much I will need to up it when the old metabolism kicks in)

How do you all survive without Ensure plus! They are so calorie dense, don't make me feel too full and yummy too (as long as they are v.v.cold!)

 

How do you all survive without Ensure plus! They are so calorie dense, don't make me feel too full and yummy too (as long as they are v.v.cold!)

Eventually you can train yourself to live without them if you hate them enough. I personally couldn't stand the things during recovery. If I HAD to have one, I liked it steaming hot. Haha, I guess that everyone's different.

Breakfast: Turkey/vegan cheese sandwich with extra meat on whole wheat.

Snack: Big bowl of oatmeal and cinnamon.

Lunch: Same kind of sandwich (I'm a poor college student!)

Dinner: Huge salad with beans, peas, etc. from dining hall; chicken noodle soup, dinner roll.

Snack: apple with caramel dip, trail mix, still eating?

Missmagill you inspire me! I'm very impressed by your meal plan.

Fefe: I love oatmeal too :)

My parents tried to get me to do the Ensure thing, they're disgusting and they made my stomach hurt like crazy, wayyy too heavy for me. Here's what I ate today.

Breakfast: Avocado and Banana smoothie. Granola with whole milk yogurt, soymilk, apple slices and raisins.

Lunch: Pita bread with hummus, tabouli salad, okra stew, mushroom and zuchinni. Pineapple for dessert.

Snack: Grapes and carrot sticks.

Snack: WW toast with peanut butter and banana. Dried peaches. Few spoonfuls of almond butter. Muffin with almond butter

Dinner: Soy chicken kebab, mashed potatoes w/ milk and margarine, Salad with olive oil and lemon juice dressing. Strawberry Banana smoothie.

Snack: haven't had it yet but it will probably be a combo of oatmeal with nuts and dried fruit, glass of soymilk, and any other calories I can cram in before the day is over!

Breakfast: oatmeal made with skim. milk, banana, nesquick cereal, a hot chocolate sachet and 50g frozen raspberries mixed in.

Lunch: wholewheat pitta bread stuffed with cottage cheese tomatoes, cucumber and lettuce.
an apple, a pear and an orange.

Dinner: veggie lasagne (homemade :))! with a side of peas and green beans.

Snack: chocolate mini wheats cereal (dry) with a slice of watermelon.

Before bed: 2 instant hot chocolates.

 

im only gaining 0.2lbs a week but im ok with that coz it dosent seem so scary stepping on the scale and seeing a huge jump :)

Kmmackli: Um, we're purposely trying to gain weight, actually; we don't need calorie-reducing tips. :]

Thanks for the great advice, though. I think the weight loss board would love this!

This is a good idea. :)
I'm always too embarassed to post on the other "what have you
eaten today" threads, because I eat so much. lol.

So this was 4/16:

Breakfast-
1 cup of bran cereal
1 cup of shredded wheat
1/4 cup of almonds
1/4 cup of raisins
1 cup of soy milk

Lunch-
1 turkey sandwich
(with cheese, bell pepper, lettuce,
tomato, mustard. yum :D)
about 9 baby carrots

Afternoon Snack-
1 cup of yogurt
1/2 cup of grapenuts cereal

Evening Snack-
1 egg
1/2 english muffin
1 cup of soy milk
Carnation instant breakfast

2nd Evening Snack-
1/2 cup sliced bell pepper
2 tbsp hummus

Dinner-
1 serving of roast beef
1 cup of broccoli
1/3 cup of mixed veggies
1 serving of homemade mashed potatoes
1 slice of rye bread
1 cup of soy milk

Key – Yogurt = 78 cals
•    Soup = 100 cals
•    Tsp peanut butter – 60 cals
•    
breakfast
yogurt
soup
yogurt

snack
yogurt
soup
tsp peanut butter

lunch
soup
yogurt

snack
yogurt
tsp peanut butter

dinner
soup
yogurt

snack
yogurt
soup
tsp peanut butter


I know I only eat three things, but... hey, this IS recovery right?! x

Hey! What a good idea... today I ate the following:

Breakfast:

1/2 c. cottage cheese

1 yogurt

coffee - yum!

Snack:

choco-chip muffin

Lunch:

2 slices bread w/1.5 tbsp PB

cucumber

Snack:

1 yogurt

Snack:

Luna Bar

Dinner:

Salad with green bean, cabbage, and soy crumbles (balsamic vinaigrette) and 1tbsp Parmesan cheese

1 c. vanilla ice cream

1 piece dark chocolate

Original Post by loufederer:

Key – Yogurt = 78 cals
•    Soup = 100 cals
•    Tsp peanut butter – 60 cals
•    
breakfast
yogurt
soup
yogurt

snack
yogurt
soup
tsp peanut butter

lunch
soup
yogurt

snack
yogurt
tsp peanut butter

dinner
soup
yogurt

snack
yogurt
soup
tsp peanut butter


I know I only eat three things, but... hey, this IS recovery right?! x

 I'm glad that you're working on recovery, and I don't mean to be cruel, but you need to push yourself for more variaty if you want ED to go away.:] I know it's hard, 'cause I've been down that track, but restriction of ANYTHING food-related seems to provoke ED thoughts and ideas.

I'm not going to get into calories, as I'm sure you're going to up them as needed.;]

Breakfast

1/2 cup oatmeal made with whole milk and mixed with with banana, peanut butter, raisins, flaxseed, cinnamon and coconut

Snack

1 hard-boiled egg

1 orange

1/4 cup soynuts

Lunch

Split pea pancakes with sesame seeds added.

1.5 cups chopped cabbage and 1/2 cup green peppers fried in olive oil

3/4 cup unshelled sunflower seeds (I enjoy being a seeder!)

Snack

1 homemade sweet potato muffin

1 oz almonds

1/3 cup mashed yams

1/4 cup ricotta cheese

Dinner

1 cup Green Beef Casserole

1/4 cup pumpkin seeds

1/4 cup soynuts

2800 calories in total.

I'm on maintenance now, but this would likely help others gain weight.

Breakfast: 2 English McMuffins with scrambled eggs, sausage and 1 Canadian bacon, then 2 more muffins - one with butter, one with jelly

Lunch- Chili Macaroni with 2 necturnies, 2 fruit cups

Snack - Oatmeal

Dinner- 4 Huge Tacos!

Original Post by fefeluvsoatmeal:

Breakfast: 2 English McMuffins with scrambled eggs, sausage and 1 Canadian bacon, then 2 more muffins - one with butter, one with jelly

Lunch- Chili Macaroni with 2 necturnies, 2 fruit cups

Snack - Oatmeal

Dinner- 4 Huge Tacos!

 I'm coming over to live at your house...NOW. xD

Sounds like you're doing well, Felecia! Good job upping the intake.:]

Breakfast: oatmeal made with skim. milk, chopped banana, a hot chocolate sachet and 60g all bran cereal mixed in

Lunch: wholewheat toast with sugar free apricot marmalade, an apple, an orange and a pear.

Snack: cookie crisp cereal dry (: haha

Dinner: 2 quorn sausages, baked aubergine, baby corn and sugarsnap peas, a wholewheat pitta bread.

Before bed: 2 instant hot chocolates.

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww. those are beyond grosssss

Breakfast: 1/4 cup Quaker raisin granola, 1 180ml Kid's Innocent smoothie (blackberries, raspberries, strawberries)

Snack: Ensure plus ( raspberry)

Lunch: little bit of French bread, Activia FF yoghurt

( had just had an awful migraine and was still feeling nauseous- anyone know what causes them? Never had one before, couldn't see properly and serious throbbing headache!)

Snack: Ensure plus (orange)

Supper: 4 mini falafel balls with homemade ratatouille, blueberries

Snack: Options hot chocolate made with 200ml semiskimmed milk

Weighing myself tomorrow! Scary!!!

 

here's what I have eaten so far today:

Breakfast: oatmeal and granola made with dried figs and blueberries, vanilla soy milk, and a scoop of vanilla protein powder (I microwave the granola in with the regular oatmeal and it gives it a nice texture ) and hot chocolate.

Lunch: baked potato with full fat cottage cheese, margarine, and lots of carrot sticks.

Snack: slices of cucumber and more carrots with hummus; Celery with PB and raisins (ants on a log!) and then more PB and honey on toast.

Snack: almond macaroons, strawberry banana smoothie

Dinner: Black bean stew, corn on the cob.

After dinner snack: Undecided, but something to go with the raw cookie dough I made earlier (http://goneraw.com/recipes/177-Raw-Chocolate- Chip-Cookie-Dough). I've gotten curious about this whole raw movment and they have some good recipes!

Not to criticize, but I've noticed many people on here posting things that are fat free or diet, or low fat, and while I understand those foods are "safer", it's a good idea to switch to full fat versions of things while trying to gain. I promise you don't notice the difference, and it will make us healthier! Plus when you're ready to maintain, it's an easy switch back.

Breakfast: oatmeal made with skim. milk, mixed with 60g all bran, chopped banana, chopped dates, brown sugar and cinnamon.

Lunch: wholewheat sandwich, toasted in the micro with 1 T. soynut butter and 1 T. honey, an apple, a pear and a navel orange.

Dinner: tofu stirfry, (noodles, tofu, brocolli, beansprouts, asparagus, and pepper) topped with a garlic and soy sauce dressing, 1 wholewheat pitta bread.

Snack: sultana bran topped with yeo valley's natural vanilla bio yoghurt, sliced strawberries and raspberries, sprinkled with toffee hot chocolate powder.

Before bed: 2 instant hot chocolates...