Favorite high calorie healthy foods?

heatherwartanyan
heatherwartanyan Posts: 66 Member
edited November 27 in Food and Nutrition
Hi All,
I eat a very healthy diet of organic nutrient dense, whole foods. However, I need to start eating more calories. Between 1800-2100 based on my workouts (insanity and Turbofire). I just recently started to log in my calories as I never really seemed to care to count and realized I was not getting nearly enough for the intense workouts I'm doing. What are some of your favorite High calorie add ons or foods? Keep in mind I don't eat overly processed stuff. I get lots of good oils too. Coconut, homemade ghee and olive oils. Looking for things that wont be too filling since I am not all that hungry anyways.
TIA,
H

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  • mmarie_3
    mmarie_3 Posts: 57 Member
    Avocado, nut butter, cheese if you eat that.
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    Brazil nuts, I love them!
  • Dreysander
    Dreysander Posts: 294 Member
    Nut butter omg. Especially almond butter.
  • heatherwartanyan
    heatherwartanyan Posts: 66 Member
    Yes I love all of those. Looks like I need to just add more. I usually do IF so I have to get all my calories in a certain window. So looks like I'm adding more mut butters to my shakes and an extra egg and oils to my salads and might have to start making BP coffee again.
  • mygnsac
    mygnsac Posts: 13,413 Member
    edited December 2015
    Nut butters
    Nuts & seeds
    Dried fruit
    Whole milk, cheeses, yogurt, etc.
    Sauces and dips will pack on the calories, like pesto, tzatziki, baba ghanoush, hummus, etc.
    Avocado
    Oily fish, like salmon

    I also like adding pepita seeds when I heat up soups and beans.

  • Raynne413
    Raynne413 Posts: 1,527 Member
    Peanut butter and cheese. All I need!! :-D
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    nuts, nut butters, seeds, avocados, fattier cuts of meat, full fat dressings, full fat dairy, fattier cuts of meat, brown rice, lentils, legumes...
  • janjunie
    janjunie Posts: 1,200 Member
    Granola has plenty of calories. 1/2 = roughly 200 calories, and it's not filling.
  • vivmom2014
    vivmom2014 Posts: 1,649 Member
    Ice cream.
  • YeaYeaPueblo
    YeaYeaPueblo Posts: 68 Member
    Justin's Maple Almond Butter on a whole wheat waffle. It's high calorie (I reserve it for big hiking days) and so delicious.
  • ekruska802
    ekruska802 Posts: 79 Member
    Nuts, avocados, coconut, cheese!
  • heatherwartanyan
    heatherwartanyan Posts: 66 Member
    I just went and bought some of my favorite bars. GoMacro. They are very healthy whole food and high calorie
  • CJsf1t
    CJsf1t Posts: 414 Member
    Full fat Greek yogurt, nuts and seeds, peanut butter. Yummy
  • summerkissed
    summerkissed Posts: 730 Member
    Rice cakes with peanut butter, banana and honey yummy!!!!
  • summerkissed
    summerkissed Posts: 730 Member
    Carbs girl eat lots of carbs!!!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,342 Member
    Nuts, nuts nuts and cheese.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    Contrarian here: Are either the workouts or the amount you're currently eating recent changes? If not, have you been losing weight? If you haven't been losing weight, and you haven't changed your workouts or how much you're eating recently (say, in the last three weeks), you're not eating too little, you're just not logging accurately. (I'm assuming your goal is either maintenance or weight loss.) Are you weighing your food with a scale?
  • savageman69
    savageman69 Posts: 339 Member
    ice cream
  • BruceHedtke
    BruceHedtke Posts: 358 Member
    Seedless grapes. The calories add up waaay too quickly with those.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    Avocado and nut butter.
  • heatherwartanyan
    heatherwartanyan Posts: 66 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    Contrarian here: Are either the workouts or the amount you're currently eating recent changes? If not, have you been losing weight? If you haven't been losing weight, and you haven't changed your workouts or how much you're eating recently (say, in the last three weeks), you're not eating too little, you're just not logging accurately. (I'm assuming your goal is either maintenance or weight loss.) Are you weighing your food with a scale?

    No my workouts don't really change I cycle between different programs. Three different ones since 2012. And yes when I first started logging in i wasn't even getting nearly 1200 calories and no weight loss weight gain. I'm upping my calories based on beachbody and their guidelines to loose some weight. I new I hit some kind of plateau. So trial and error. I'll see how I do on same programs wich I usually burn between 400-800 at high intensity. And see how things work out.
  • CandiceMcD
    CandiceMcD Posts: 115 Member
    I just got some sunflower seed butter and its freaking amazing. Avocado with some lemon. eggs.
  • heatherwartanyan
    heatherwartanyan Posts: 66 Member
    CandiceMcD wrote: »
    I just got some sunflower seed butter and its freaking amazing. Avocado with some lemon. eggs.

    I love Sunflower butter

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