You can eat a lot of calories in america.
This is why obesity exists.
Low calorie healthy clean foods are basically impossible to eat too much of, too high calorie with.
Nutritious, but dirtier foods allow you to get in a higher number of calories.
For example :
2000 calories of frozen pizza or mozzarella sticks is so easy to put down that “not being able to eat enough” is seen as a joke.
To a degree I’ve found lower quality to be easier to eat in higher quantity.
Again look to the obese.
Certain cookies end up being something you can eat 1500+ calories of and not even notice you ate.
Like how people describe being hungry half an hour after having eaten chinese food.
Milk can be drank with every meal and go unnoticed.
This holds true for drinking calories, though it’s best to stick with milk and juice here.
I’m no longer big on saying “drink a 2 liter”, no longer suggesting soda for easy extra calories.
I don’t like how drinking high fructose corn syrup makes me feel.
I sense it slowing me down mentally and physically.
However, every obese grocery shopper looks to be drinking at least a two liter a day.
It is calories.
You know the stereotype of the scooter rider close to tipping it reaching for a soda?
I’ve actually seen that. 400lbs without locomotion had the coke at her fingertips, a half dozen two liters in the basket, the scooter starting to tip.
That woman’s cart cart just showed how easy junk food is to get down.
And when it comes to how and how much you get down some stuff is downright weird…
Stew :
I couldn’t eat enough pork or beef stew to bulk, it fills me quickly, but I can eat dessert before it (see the cookie example above), and am able to eat more stew if it’s over a pack of ramen.
Say the stew by itself is equal to 5 parts. Say the ramen is equal to 2 parts. When I mix those I end up eating 8.5 parts, able to eat 6.5 parts of stew once I’ve added the 2 parts of the ramen, but filled by 5 parts of the stew if it was stew alone.
I’ve found the same principle with chili over baked potato over ramen in three ingredients instead of two.
Go read the JM Blakley articles on bulking, you get to some weird food combinations at times, and really can always add calories in some manner.
I’ve poured heavy cream in place of milk over cereal. That’s a before dinner snack.
No meat on hand? Peanut butter and cheese melt nicely into top ramen.
You can easily slam an egg shake after any meal.
And to lose weight, the opposites :
Eggs drank before a meal with a brief period in between.
Small portions of stew alone, a few times a day instead of a huge bowl or two in the evening.