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[Heron TSG]

Hello there, comrades! I was recently told by my doctor that I need to eat 3750 calories per day to maintain my weight. This may seem odd for someone who weighs 118 pounds, but I run like crazy every day, have an extremely fast metabolism, and am somehow getting taller. However, this means that I need to find some food that has an incredibly high calorie content that is neither expensive nor bulky (I get full easily).

Does anyone have some tasty suggestions? It'd be nice if they were healthy, but mildly unhealthy foods don't matter too much when you run seven miles a day.

[The Scout]

Hot pockets. You could eat a box every day.

[Heron TSG]

Technically, yes. Any other ideas?

[Strife26]

Hmmmmm, I'd suggest MRE's, but they're pretty expensive to actually buy.

Corn Syrup, maybe? If you were to go buy a bottle (Karo brand is good if available), you could try adding a few tablespoons to everything you eat.

Other than that, butter and cheese are good bets for non-filling calories.



And I'm really, really jealous, by the way.

[Nikov]

Bread. Toasted.

Three eggs. Fried in pan.

Swiss cheese. One slice.

Six strips bacon. Fried in pan before the eggs. Drain no grease.

Swiss cheese. Second slice.

Three more eggs. Fried in delicious grease.

Bread. Toast that shit.



I called it the Double Bypass earlier, but now I call it The Clogger. Dispose of your egg shells and grease in responsible ways!

[Heron TSG]

Sweet. I've got a nine mile run tomorrow morning, and that sounds like a terrific breakfast.

[The Scout]

5 pancakes, and 5 hot pockets. Power breakfast.

[Vector]

My high school econ teacher apparently did some research and chickpeas have the best calorie/money ratio for healthy food--in San Francisco, anyway.  In any case, they're cheap.

[Heron TSG]

Garbanzo beans are good, but for some reason no store around here carries them. If I'm ever traveling though, I'll be sure to pick some up. Maybe I'll run to the nearest town that has them.... 21 miles or so. Not in winter, though. There seem to be more cars in the ditches than on the road.

[G-Flex]

Hot pockets. You could eat a box every day.

This is a very stupid idea.

Hmmmmm, I'd suggest MRE's, but they're pretty expensive to actually buy.

Corn Syrup, maybe? If you were to go buy a bottle (Karo brand is good if available), you could try adding a few tablespoons to everything you eat.

This is always a very stupid idea.



Beans are good. Complex, fibery starches in general are good (oats have lots of soluble fiber, are energy-dense, and have a great protein makeup). Olive oil is a tad expensive but a very healthy fat to use in a number of ways. You'd still want to go relatively light on the sugar and hideously-unhealthy stuff. Throw some eggs in there, and fish/lean meats. Some dairy too if your body agrees with it.

Of course, if you've got a high-calorie diet you can't afford to neglect things that aren't macronutrients. Eat a decent salad now and then and get some leafy greens and fruits and vegetables in there. It's not hard to make a good salad with a bit of chicken, cheese, and beans in there plus good vegetables, that way you can eat something fairly nutritious on all counts.

Of course, I'm not a dietitian or a doctor, and I doubt anyone else here is either, so you might want to ask one of them.

[Heron TSG]

Now, there aren't any stupid ideas. It's just that my stomach doesn't have room for a box of hot pockets, and I'd have no idea where to find MRE's. Corn Syrup is pretty nasty, too. Yeah, sure, it's almost exactly like cane sugar. But it's all weird and gooey.

Thanks for the idea on salad, G-Flex. That's one of the few things I know how to make fairly well. Maybe I'll try some sort of bean/chicken salad hybrid.

I forget who said it, but here's a quote that may apply here. "If the furnace is hot enough, it'll burn anything". Dietitians don't live in small towns, and all my doctor said was to eat more food. I know that it'd be a bad idea to eat solely hot pockets instead of actual food all day, but I can definitely afford the occasional cheeseburger. If nothing else, running lets me enjoy eating.

[Neonivek]

Well let me see...

For breakfast have a Bagle with cheese or creame cheese and a bowl of Fruitloops. That alone can build up over 500 cals

[DJ]

Pork rind, bacon, roast pork, pork sausage... You get the idea, if it comes from a pig, it's good eatin'. I'd also recommend using lard as a bread spread (it's quite good with paprika and onions on top), but I doubt it's widely available in USA and I hear you guys refuse to eat lard and internal organs (liver would also be good, but I doubt you'll eat it).

[G-Flex]

I know that it'd be a bad idea to eat solely hot pockets instead of actual food all day, but I can definitely afford the occasional cheeseburger. If nothing else, running lets me enjoy eating.

Of course, but you should still focus on eating healthy, especially since you get a lot of physical activity. Daily multivitamins are also pretty damn cheap (I just got about a year's supply for probably $15 US), definitely enough to worth having.

For breakfast have a Bagle with cheese or creame cheese and a bowl of Fruitloops. That alone can build up over 500 cals

The reason I keep saying stuff like this is a bad idea is because... well, it's a bad idea. There's much, much better you can eat than Froot Loops (yes, that's actually how it's spelled, even though I hate typing it that way). It's a poor suggestion because there are healthier alternatives, Froot Loops being composed of about 41% sugar. They have some fiber spuriously thrown in these days, but it's not very good for you and isn't the sort of thing that will fill you up. "I need to eat a lot of calories" doesn't mean "calories are all that matters and I should literally buy a bottle of corn syrup and drink it for breakfast". People who are into fitness are also into nutrition as a general rule, and there's a good reason for that. This is less a comment towards you specifically than it is towards the other people posting here, though.

Granted, personal taste matters here and I have no idea what you like, but there's plenty of whole grain breakfast cereals that aren't half-sugar. Personally, I like things like granola (which is also a great thing to just snack on during the day), shredded wheat, Grape Nuts, oatmeal, and other stuff that makes plenty of small children gag, but that's just me. Of course, part of the reason I enjoy eating things like that is because I like how it makes me feel and know that it's good for me, whereas the taste of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs might itself be good but would repulse me anyway because I know it's crap.

Pork rind, bacon, roast pork, pork sausage... You get the idea, if it comes from a pig, it's good eatin'. I'd also recommend using lard as a bread spread (it's quite good with paprika and onions on top), but I doubt it's widely available in USA and I hear you guys refuse to eat lard and internal organs (liver would also be good, but I doubt you'll eat it).

Pork is a fairly difficult to digest meat, and cured/salted pork products are full of far, far more sodium than you need, and nitrites/nitrates and the like. Pork fat/lard is also by far not the best source of fat you can get if you're health/fitness conscious. Granted, I'm not sure how it compares to butter.



[EDIT]

I'm not sure how much of your own cooking you do, but try to find inspiration from different places, potentially. For instance, I like Mexican and (most) Asian food because a lot of it manages to be extremely tasty without being drowned in butter or made out of an entire cow, my point being less to eat those things and more to look around.

Whole grain pasta/bread is also pretty energy dense and a healthy source of it.

[inteuniso]

Eat complex carbohydrates, lean meats (Fish is always tasty), and lots of natural, unsaturated fatty foods, like avocados, olives, olive oil, and the like.