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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 :]

Great menus everyone!

Drivenlass, good to hear your enjoying yourself. I struggle with buffets to, there is so much choice and Im the same I like a set meal i.e. this is it what Im having and not lots of different bits. Just try and make yourself up a meal using things you'd like to try, its a good opportunity to eat things you mayeb wouldnt normally. Keep having fun!

Shell_bell: Thats brilliant! Your menu looks lovely, keep it up, your doing a good job!

Original Post by dekkos:

B: 1 cup cooked oats

1 large chopped banana

2 tbsp pb

1 oz of almonds

8 fl. oz. of milk

S:

Apple

Flour tortilla

fat free ceese

turkey beast slice

L:

6 oz chicken

3/4 Cup Brown Rice

S:

1 Cup kashi go lean Crunch !

D:

1 Cup of Spaghetti

1 boca burger

8 oz of trop 50 OJ

 

S:

16 oz banana Smoothie made with skim milk and frozen banana

 

Before bed:

?????

 

Im bearly at 2100

 Ahem, why the fat-free cheese (ew), Boca burgers, and Trop 50 (diet OJ)? Use real natural cheese made with whole or 2% milk, choose a higher calorie veggie burger or go with the real thing, and drink REGULAR orange juice. Orange juice is not a horrible thing. It's all fine and good and there's really nothing negative to say about it.

So far today

B: 1tbsp raisins, 10 wlanuts, olive oil,honey, soya milk and fruit salad, with, wait for it............Not one but TWO brown croissants-very proud of myself and I loved them. Big fear food. OJ and tea with honey

S:Ensure Plus

L: Prawn Cocktail with extra sauce, carrot and seed salad, with parmesan cheese and regular slad with lots of olive oil

S: 3 squares of dark chocolate, v8juice, Lemon Bacardi Breezer

D: Dont know yet but ill update later. 

Dekkos: Little piece of advice. Try to maybe have different foods with more value to them. You seem to be eating same amount and kinds of food, adn in my experience it is better to change things around yourself(only as much as you can), becasue eventually youll HAVE to, becasue a)youll stop gaining and b)you cant eat the saem foods forever c)your body will get v.bored, as will you. More value foods will up your calories too.

Write yourself out a new plan to try for ONE day, and see how it goes, it is rather exciting to step outside your comfort zone.

e.g-lunch: BLAT (bacon leetice avocado and tomato sandwich), or even better a BLEAT (Bacon lettuce egg avocado and tomato sandwich), 

dinner: Chinese Takeaway!! or whatever country tickles your prefereence, italian pizza, indian curry-pompadoms! me i love chinese!

Just a suggestion, not criticism. Its just a lot easier to make changes before you HAVE to make them.

x

heck, i ate a lot yesterday after running, so i can post my menu here =)

breakfast; 3 scrambled eggs , 2 sausage links, melon, and a glass of OJ

snack; some tostitos with lotss of salsa

snack; 2 servings of tostitos with lotsss of my homemade spicy hummus

snack; a serving of mixed nuts, and a glass of chocolate milk 2%

dinner; a HUGE steak, 4 red potatos covered in butter and garlic, some chopped cucumbers topped with EVOO, cold sugared green tea

dessert; icecream sandwich

snack; i was baking brownies sooo i was eating a lotttt of the batter hahaha then i had some water melon =)

That sounds like my kind of eating because i actually love everything that you just posted.  I am glad to see that someone shares some of my likes.  How much did you run?

Today:

Breakfast: Cereal with fromage frais, flaxseed, peaches, raspberries and soya nuts

Snack: Yogurt, cinnamon, seed mix, apple

Lunch: 2 slices wholemeal bread toasted with chicken, cheese, branston pickle, spinach, cucumber, beetroot, tomatoes and peppers

Snack: Fage, wheatgerm, dried apricots and more soya nuts. Fortisip

Dinner: Chicken stir fryed with olive oil, garlic, onions, broccoli , all mixed in with ww pasta and chargrilled vegetable sauce. After had a milkshake

Snack: Will be toasted pitta bread, hummus, strawberries and some dates. Fortisip

I finally managed to break out of my breakfast rut today  and it was pretty good to.

Kuhristenn, may I have a brownie? :)

Last night I made these AMAZING seared scallops and grape tomatoes with balsamic glaze, served over pasta and topped with some homemade pesto! I have a fairly large basil plant growing outside, so I used some of that, as well as a new bottle of organic EVOO, some raw milk Parmigiano-Reggiano (the REAL, ahem, expensive stuff, hahah), garlic, pine nuts, and some salt and pepper. Delicious and simple. My grandparents provided the maters' from their garden, so the meal really felt almost home-grown. :) I wonder how I'm going to get tonight's dinner to live up to that.

Breakfast - Blueberry oatmeal pancakes(oats, flaxseed, bran, blueberries, plain yogurt, eggs, cinnamon) with almond butter, fresh strawberries, and an egg white omlette.

Snack - Cottage cheese mixed with plain yogurt, a pink lady apple with peanut butter, and some pita bread.

Lunch - Black Bean and Corn salad (this recipe), chicken breast marinated in soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sesame oil, some black beans, peas, green beans, and a bell pepper with chipolte salsa. 

Snack - TBD. I have an orientation meeting at my new school this afternoon so I will have to bring along something easy. Probobly a Lara bar and some Greek yogurt... something like that. I'll update you later.

Dinner - TBD. Something mighty tasty.

Snack (will be) - Plain yogurt mixed with cottage cheese and ground flaxseed, and a small banana.

i ran just about 5 miles i think. its so fricken hot here lol

and sure zebulan, but i want some scallops (;

zeb with your pancakes did you use the yogurt instead of milk? I wondered if you could do that, I was worried the cooking might make the yogurt go a bit strange?

ok I don't really post much but this is the first day I've eaten 2500 since I was an IP four months ago, so I am feeling the need to celebrate it somewhere :D

note - my diet is low fat and relies heavily on liquids cause of stomach problems, not ED reasons ;)

breakfast ~ greek yogurt, cup Coco Pops, banana, 300ml OJ

snack ~ 50g rice crackers, 200ml strawberry milk

lunch ~ ciabatta roll w/ cream cheese, 2 slices chicken, 400ml strawberry milk

snack ~ greek yogurt, honey, banana, yogurt raisins

dinner ~ ciabatta roll w/ cream cheese, 100g prawns stir fried (in oil & teriyaki sauce) w/ handful mushrooms, 400ml apple/mango juice

snack ~ 2 slices toast w/ cream cheese & honey

An example of when i was a ctively gaining weight, i was 25 and sedentary-

B: Bagel, 1.5tbspns,PB, yogurt, HB egg, apple, trail mix~750

S: cereal w/ milk+trail mix~360

L: 2 slices WW w/ cheddar, avocado, +sweet potato, Fage 2%, a cookie, a plum, carrots ~700

S: ice c ream w/ trail mix~250

D: veg salad w/ trail mix+tbspn alomd butter mixed in, chicken nuggets, corn on the cob~460

S: apple, yogurt, vita muffin~400

Total ~2920

It's so hard to gain weight... I've struggled with my weight my whole life and it seems I'm just never satisfied with my body. First I'm too fat, now I'm too thin... I just want to be normal and healthy!

B- Oatmeal, Apple, Peach Yogurt

L- 6" Turkey subway, Vitatop, Peanut Butter

S- 2 homemade chocolate chip cookies

D- Sweet potato, corn on the cob, 2 chicken breasts, Broccoli

S- Vanilla Wafers, Yogurt

D- Bagel, Fiber One bar

Total: 2600

Breakfast

1/3 cup of raw porridge with milk, sultanas, honey, 2 tsp LSA & trail mix

Morning Tea

Large bowl of fruit salad and yoghurt

Lunch

Sushi pack (4 nigiri, 1 inari, 3 large sliced rolls)

Small apple and blackcurrent juice

Afternoon Tea

1 choc chip muesli bar

Dinner

375g marinated tofu

1.5 cups of vegetables

1 cup of egg noodles

Supper

Fruit salad with berry gelati

Can anyone tell me approx how many calories the above would be????

August 17th:

Breakfast - 3/4c Peanut Butter Puffins cereal in 1/2c soy milk and topped with 1/2 sliced banana

Snack - Ginger Snap Larabar, cup of Chai green tea

This is the 3rd Larabar I have tried. I have previously had Banana Cookie and Coconut Cream Pie awhile back. Even though I really enjoyed this one, Banana Cookie is still my favourite so far. I also picked up Apple Pie, Cherry Pie, Cinnamon Roll and Cashew Cookie. Cannot wait to test more of them out!

Lunch - Left-over (ground) turkey tacos on an Ezekiel tortilla w/toppings (salsa, spinach, cucumber, onions, etc.)

Snack - 1/2 of an Ezekiel english muffin w/peanut butter & 1/2 mashed banana and drizzled with some honey, 1/2c chocolate soy milk

Dinner - Turkey clubhouse sandwich (turkey slices, bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayo) toasted on WW, cucumber slices

Dessert - peice of home-made "spicy" fruit loaf (raisins, crushed almonds, and spices: cinnamon, ginger and allspice, etc.)

Snack - TBD Strawberry smoothie topped with tons of cinnamon!

(edit: added in bed-time snack)

breakfast- Two eggs, greek yogurt, carrots, toast

Snack- Apple crisps (freeze dried), 2 apricots

Snack 2- Balance bar (peanut butter)

Lunch- chocolate brownie cliff bar, vanilla pudding, cup of kix cereal, tbsp. of pb, one apple

Snack- two eating right peanut butter bars, go gurt

Dinner- vanilla pudding, cup of kix cereal, tbsp of pb, a whole can of apple pie filling

Snack- Vanilla pudding, loaf of ciabetta bread

Snack- handful of grapes, yogurt, handful of strawberries and blueberries, nature valley granola bar

Snack 3- fudge bar, handful of pretzels

jeez just looking at this makes me sick. Way too much sugar. I need more veggies and fruits. My mom bought lots of snack pack puddings yesterday, and i couldnt resist the pudding or the apple pie filling.

Zeb:  Your menus really do put my attempts at cooking to shame!  They sound amazing!

Drivenlass:  Well done on coping so well while you're away.  Don't beat yourself up about the fact that you're still having to be "controlling" - I found recovering from an ED was all about finding ways of coping and dealing with difficult situations, and the more you practise the easier it gets.  Spontaneity will come later:) 

Although I consider myself pretty much mentally "recovered", I do still have fear foods and situations that scare me, because I worry that I'll publically freak out like I would have done before, but I faced another one yesterday- going into starbucks on my own and ordering a (non-skinny!) muffin (and REALLY enjoying it haha!)  During ED days I once left Starbucks in tears after being literally unable to order anything...not cool!

Yesterday's eats:

B:  2 slices thick white toast.  One with pb, one with marmite and butter. 

L:  Large tortilla wrap with red thai chicken and lettuce.  Bottle lucozade.

S: Chocolate teacake.  Vanilla yoghurt with a frozen banana.

Pre yoga snack:  Starbucks raspberry and white chocolate muffin:)

Post yoga snack:  Salt and vinegar ricecakes.  2 digestive biscuits.  Apple juice.

My tummy still can't handle much fruit and veg:(

so far for breakfast.....7 eggwhites with low fat cheese....8 pancakes and one pack of turkey bacon....uhhhh about 15 strips of turkey bacon I think....mmmmmmm...should be about 1500 calories

Can we PLEASE keep this thread alive?

I know everyone was getting frustrated with people posting low-cal menus, but seriously.. we're close to 8000 posts on here! Reading through page after page of menus gave me the courage to bump up to 2500 cals.

So keep posting on this thread!

Breakfast:  1/2 c oatmeal (150) made with 1 cup whole milk (150) with 3 TB trail mix (140) stirred in;  6 oz vanilla yogurt (150) with 1 large banana (110) stirred in = 700 calories

Lunch:  Turkey sandwich--2 slices ww bread (180) with TB cream cheese (50), 4 oz turkey (140) and lettuce;  8 oz chocolate milk (160) and an apple (80) = 610 calories 

Snack:  Milkshake--1 c whole milk (150), 1/2 c ben&jerry's half baked ice cream (280) and a frozen banana (100) = 530 calories

Dinner:  Hamburger--4 oz beef (210) and hamburger bun (170);  salad (30) with 2 TB dressing (120) = 520 calories

Snack:  2 oz almonds (340), 1/4 c raisins (130) and 1/4 c m&m's (240) = 710 calories

Total:  3070 calories

ok-so not to be disrespectful of the good intentions of others, but i just dont think we can abandon this thread. we have had issues with posters in the past, and they can be dealt with again. there are pages and pages and years worth of relationships, ideas, and recipes here. its just too much to throw away. im going to support this old thread-for me, it helped pull me through and realize my ED at the worst point. honestly, it helped keep me alive.

     on another note, for the first time since i can remember, i actually enjoyed ALL of my food today!!!! I WENT A WHOLE DAY WITHOUT FREAKING OUT OR BEING FORCED TO EAT!!! sounds RETARDED, yes. BUT!!!thats a huge step for me. YES, i love food, but i have always been resentful of the QUANTITY i have to eat. tday though, i wanted and thoroughly enjoyed it though!!! wow, God is great!!

todays food: (8/18/09)

B: 1.5 c multigrain cheerios(170), banana w/cinamon(120), SF hot choc w/milk and coffee(190)=480

L: ensure plus(350), HUUUUUGE chicken breast (220), corn on the cob (100), green beans (30)=700

S: SF caramel frap from the Bucks YEAH!!!!! (310)

D: WW flatout (100) w/cheese stick melted over top (80) and lettuce, hummus pot w/lots of baby carrots (170), large pear (120)=470

had to make up a lot from erlier apparently

S/D2: homeade eggless banana oat muffin (190), 3/4 c oats cooked in 1 c milk (350), fresh blueberries (70), 1.5 scoops soynuts (200), 1.5 c apple juice (180)=990

total=2950