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I’m on a new med that suppressed my appetite and I’ve lost too much weight. I don’t want to resort to eating trash to meet my daily caloric goals but I’m about to snap over how much goddamn chewing there is in life. I have no idea how I’ve struggled with overeating before. Ive tried snacking on cheeses and nuts throughout the day to take the pressure off meal times but I just end up with half empty snack bags everywhere. Breakfast has been the hardest for me, smoothies are the easiest but I struggle to finish them too.

Please, what healthy, low-processed foods are easy to prepare ahead of time and have lots of calories per bite?

Scalloped potatoes/potato gratin maybe? It's basically thinly sliced potatoes and cream (and optional cheese on top) so it has quite a few calories, you can prepare a big pan of it and freeze what you don't eat.

Macaroni and cheese?
Seconding the scalloped potatoes. They have boxed versions in different flavors at the grocery store.

This link has some good food ideas, particularly the last, about adding healthy oils. The calorie count goes up quickly, and they're not going to kill you with all kinds of processed garbage (the oils is the last, number 18).

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/18-foods-to-gain-weight#section9

Adding cream, oils, butter, things with whole fats in them to everything that you can stand. Nut butters, whole eggs, homogenized milk. Eat like it's 1910! :D

Thanks for the link! I was relying on roasting veg with olive oil but I realized I lose interest I. eating anything slightly greasy even quicker. A friend suggested trying to mask the oiliness in a pesto but I haven’t had the time yet.

I hope it can help!

Healthy fats are what you're looking for! Put avocado on everything if you're into avocado. I used to have a breakfast of a piece of spelt bread (toasted, with real butter), with mashed avocado and a poached egg on top, and that kept me going well through lunch on the fullness scale-- plus packed a pretty good calorie punch.

There are some pre-packaged fruit/nut bars that aren't a whole lot to eat but have a lot of good calories too, just defo check that they're not "filled" with sugar and wheat. You're looking for like 4-5 ingredients tops. I really like Perfect Bars, if you can find those!

As far as meals go, indulge a bit and have some red meat. Mashed potatoes are great too, especially if you load them up with milk and butter. Not as healthy, of course, but I feel like mealtimes are okay to splurge a little if you're under on calories. Basically just try to avoid sugars and a lot of empty carbs (processed wheat breads and pastas and such).

The target near me has them, I’ll check that out, thanks!

No problem! I hope the side effects of your med taper off soon and you get back to your usual appetite. This stuff can be frustrating!

Try different portion size with the smoothies, then you can prep little bags with the right amount of ingredients so you just have to grab a baggie and throw it in the blender. If you do this you can make smaller ones throughout the day, since you said you have trouble finishing them.

Not low-processed, but if you're really desperate for calories, my grandmother drinks these: https://ensure.com/nutrition-products/ensure-compact They're the same amount of calories and nutrients in half the amount of liquid.

I have a permanently suppressed appetite and I am back to my goal weight now. My advice is probably not what you want to hear but let yourself have some trash now and then. If you like a particular herb or salt or sauce, use it to make things more palatable. Sugar, salt, and certain things like MSG can trick your brain into thinking you're hungrier than you are and it's gross to think about but you can use that to up your calorie intake.

You want to try to keep your weight in the green bar of your BMI chart any way you can because once you get into seriously underweight territory the recovery is an honest to fuck nightmare and you want to avoid that at all costs. Don't stress too much about healthy and unhealthy foods when you are only having unhealthy food in moderation anyway because of your appetite. That's a problem if you binge eat, not when you're physically incapable of binge eating. If you can only do bland food it's better than sitting in front of healthier food and not eating it. If you can get meal replacement like ensure that's good and don't forget to add extra vitamins if you're not eating enough of something naturally. You can look up your recommended daily intake and work out what you're missing out on. Calcium is my big one because dairy makes me gag.

Honestly, anything you loved that you could have eaten lots of before is your best bet for inspiring yourself to get a little more down. Anything that smells good to you still. If you find yourself thinking you wish you could eat a big curry, make yourself a little one.

Try to eat mindlessly. This is my trick. If I'm invested in watching something and not sitting at a table staring at my food I'm more likely to just get through it.

Hope you get yours back, anon.

Thank you for the insight! I have been indulging in trash to get by but I need to cut back, I feel bloated and terrible afterwards which makes me feel more reluctant to eat. :(

Do you like any kind of soup? If you make chowders or pureed veggie soups, use whole milk as some of the liquid and add cream/croutons/toasted nuts/pesto as garnishes?

I saw you mentioned not having the time to make pesto, but once you do, if you leave out the cheese, you can freeze it in ice cube trays and then put the little frozen pesto bricks in a freezer bag, and only thaw what you use for one meal at a time. Also, you can use a lot of different combos of oil/nuts/herbs/cheese in pesto—swap basil for cilantro and pine nuts for cashews, or whatever.

Sprinkle chopped nuts over your roasted veggies during the last couple minutes of cooking so they toast a bit? Fry bread crumbs, maybe with herbs/garlic, in olive oil until crispy and use as a topping for any veggies, roasted, steamed, whatever.

Tahini paste is just ground sesame seeds but it works well with roasted squash and chickpeas, or mix it with lemon juice, garlic, salt, and a bit of water until creamy and use it as a dip for veggies or a salad dressing.

Make quiches with lots of veggies. If you don’t mind a crustless version, use this recipe:

Preheat your oven to 350

3 eggs
1 1/4 cup milk
1 cup flour
1 tsp each baking powder and salt
1 cup grated cheese
2 small onions, minced
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tbs olive oil

Mix and pour into 2 greased pie plates, bake 20-30 minutes until starting to brown at the edges. I’ve used all kinds of cheese and replaced half the onion with other veggies, added pine nuts, herbs, whatever, and added way more than one onion’s worth of veggies; it’s still tasty.

It works great in muffin tins and then one or two with a salad or something is a meal. I’m vegetarian but you could probably add cooked meat. I’ve eaten it hot from the oven, lukewarm, and out of the fridge.

I love, love the quiche idea! I’ve been eating pecan pie for the calories because a good, crumbly crust is really the only thing that gets me going these days. Of course a savory pie! Lol

AYRT—I think the recipe I posted should work in a crust so long as you leave out all but a couple tablespoons of the flour; with the full cup of flour it sets up sturdy enough to eat in slices without a crust—I love crusts, but a) I have trouble keeping weight off and b) I can make piecrust, but it’s a lot of work and I save it for fruit pies. One of my favorite combos is mango/peach, but plain apple and apple/raspberry are also awesome.

If you like stuff in crust/pastry, try making turnovers stuffed with roasted veggies and cheese? Or spanakopita, samosas, Cornish pasties, British meat pies... I have an awesome veggie pie recipe but I’ll have to dig it out to post tomorrow. Also cheesecake in a crumbly cookie crust is probably the highest fat/calorie treat I can think of, but it’s actually got protein in it, plus top it with lots of fresh fruit and that’s fiber and more vitamins. Trader Joe’s sells a good plain one if you don’t wanna make it from scratch and just vary the fruit depending on what’s in season.

Tahini works better mixed in after your veggies are cooked, especially since at roasting temps it may burn otherwise. And traditional pesto is basil, garlic, olive oil, pine nuts, and grated Parmesan, but if you’re making a big batch, leaving the cheese out lets you freeze it and then just add cheese when you add the thawed pesto.

Good luck, I’m sure I’m not the only one who would donate a few pounds if I could, your sutuation sounds frustrating!

Oh and thank you! I’m going to try adding tahini to veggies and putting nuts in my pesto too!

Seconding avocado. Lots of things you can do with avocado, including throwing it into your smoothies, and they're nutrient dense

Eggs are fairly easy. Boiled eggs can be prepped ahead of time. Devil 'em if you're feeling fancy. Scrambled eggs are more of a "make as needed" thing, but they go down easy and don't require a lot of chewing.

Roasted potatoes are good. Baked and boiled are alright. And they're all okay cold if you want to make extra and eat them later.

Granola and dried fruit are good, as long as you're not watching your sugar.

Agree re: the smaller portion smoothies and make sure they've got higher calorie/fat ingredients - peanut butter, avocado, yogurt for protein, stuff like that.

Mashed potatoes can be made with grated cheese as well as butter and cream/half and half. Consider making batches of soup (or anything, really) and portioning out into small containers like this:

https://ziploc.com/en/products/containers/round/containers-twist-loc-small

Greek yogurt, honey, fruit and granola can be pre-mixed and packaged the same way.

I have no advice because I don't bother to eat healthy at all, but out of curiosity: what medication? Obviously you don't have to answer.

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