Cooking for a gainer and a loser

amblight

I'm cooking for 2 people (mainly just the dinners, though we often pack lunch from leftovers), but we have very different goals - I need to lose a lot of weight, she needs to gain.

In the time we've lived together, I've exited the 'morbidly obese' category (and I'm getting close to exiting obese all together), and she has exited the underweight category (she was even 'underweight class 2' at first), so I must be doing something right! But as I'm getting more restrictive with my diet, I feel guilty that she isn't getting enough calories to gain/maintain.

Do you know any good recipies that can easily, preferably in the last step of the preperation, be made low cal OR high cal?

For instance, yesterday, I made 2 ommeletes: one whole egg in each, and then I seperated yolk and white of 2 eggs, gave me the whites, and gave her the yolks + cheese. I would like more recipies like this - Perhaps wrap fillings, lasagnes, stir frys etc, as we eat a lot of those...

Also, she is very picky, because she has very little appetite (hence why she was underweight to start with), and she cannot eat large portions at all, she gets sick. And they still need to be healthy of course, just more calorie dense!

MissInfiniti

I made lettuce wraps the other day, Asian style-- like the ones at PF Chags/Cheesecake Factory. I ate mine in lettuce because I'm trying to lose but a friend made it into a sandwich. Mine comes to 200 calories and is super filling while his was 500 with the bread and cheese that he added.

BunBun85

I think you could do this with salmon chowder. It's fairly low calorie with lots of those healthy fish fats then at the end your friend could add some extra cheese and a bit of sour cream, even crumbled bacon if you decided to use torsk instead. It tastes just lovely without all those fixings too though.

You could also make lasagna loaded with veggies and none of the bechamel sauce or cheese in the mix then she can drizzle that over top when it's done. The leftovers can be saved for a duo chicken alfredo dish where she can go heavy on the pasta and you can do the same with steamed veggies.

Any salad is low calorie until you put the dressing on it. For cold salad mixes, she could use full fat mayo, you can use natural yoghurt.

amblight

Oh wow, such great suggestions! Thank you, I will deffinitely put these on my meal plan (: