I don’t know where to post this, so I’m posting it here.
I need to gain some weight because I’m borderline anorexic. But I can’t afford much more than bread, potatoes, eggs and cheese, That is my diet. And I hate eating it. It’s the only thing I can stomach that is cheap, but I hate it. I don’t want to eat eggs and potatoes for the rest of my life. I would rather die of malnutrition, like I am currently doing.
I have no appetite, but that is a symptom of something else. Ideally, there is a way to gain weight while eating less mass. Something calorie dense.
I might be slightly exaggerating. But for the last couple of years I’ve been eating potatoes and eggs for almost every single meal of the day. And yes, I eat one warm meal a day. Sometimes I suppliment with some bread to stop the hunger pains. Sometimes I also eat a piece of vegetable.
Cook with real Butter, and learn how to make all the potato foods you can; hash browns, big steak chips to small fries, mash with a bit of milk and butter, jacket potaotes stuffed with things like beans and cheese, try see if the act of cooking something new helps build an appetite by association.
Another food to go for is purple sweet potato, not only is it delicious its genuinely full of nutrients.
Another method is finding a cheap soylent recipe and having a bottle of that every day to supplement your calories without being unbalanced.
https://www.completefoods.co/diy/recipes?sort=favoritesCount
This site has a whole list of varying types, including from expensive to cheap
https://www.completefoods.co/diy/recipes/sean-superfood-v3
For example this one is for making gains in the gym but the calorie excess would still help if you’re only eating once a day.
The recipe says it can be modified to replace the maltodextrin with rice flour (and imo the stevia for actual sugar or honey if you’re like me and can’t stand the taste of sweeteners)