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Foods for gaining weight

stormycharity123
stormycharity123 Posts: 1 Member
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I am trading to gain a little bit of weight (and maybe eat a little better) Are there any bars or shake/smoothie mixes you recommend
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  • monikr999
    monikr999 Posts: 1 Member
    Hey there! Bulking season is right behind the corner, huh? 😄 Gaining weight is a matter of being in caloric surplus. Therefore if you eat more than you burn you'll gain weight. Here's my favourite high calorie shake, I have it for breakfast every morning when I'm trying to gain clean weight.

    100g oats
    200 ml full fat cow's milk
    2 heaping tablespoons peanut butter
    1 large banana
    1 whole egg (if free range you can even blend the shell)
    Cocoa powder to taste
    Cinnamon, turmeric, a pinch of salt

    Comes to about 1000 kcal, sweet, filling, super tasty

    Good luck with your journey!
  • LittleSimMama
    LittleSimMama Posts: 6 Member
    edited September 2023
    Do they sell RX bars near you? You can get them from Amazon and directly from the company, but they cost less from the grocery store. Consider them a rich snack - around 200 to 210 calories, few ingredients (dates, nuts, and egg whites making up most of it) and about 12 grams of protein.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,108 Member
    Just eat food. Especially calorie dense foods to achieve surplus. Favorites include pasta, pizza and burgers.

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    First course of action would be to just eat more food and more calorie dense food that puts you in a surplus. That said, when I was younger I was a bean poll and had a hard time holding onto weight let alone gaining weight. My issue was that I was pretty active in sports and then just active in general and then even more active in the military and had a hard time getting in enough calories with meals (especially given time constraints and being limited to what was available) so I started using a mass gainer shake...as I recall it was about 1,200 calories per serving and I would have that once per day along with my normal meals.
  • loulee997
    loulee997 Posts: 273 Member
    stormycharity123 wrote: »
    I am trading to gain a little bit of weight (and maybe eat a little better) Are there any bars or shake/smoothie mixes you recommend

    You could do fruit smoothie. Add full fat milk, honey, or peanut butter.

    https://www.creativenourish.com/high-calorie-smoothies-for-weight-gain/
    SMOOTHIES FOR WEIGHT GAIN

    https://theabsolutefoodie.com/smoothie-recipes-for-weight-gain
    MORE WEIGHT GAIN SMOOTHIE RECIPES

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