In this skinny-obsessed world that we live in, it’s difficult to believe that anyone would be interested in learning about the food items which have high-caloric content. However, there are some naturally skinny women who actually prefer to have a figure like Jennifer Lopez rather than the paper-thin weight of the Olsen twins. And if you want to do it in a healthy way, here is what should be in your shopping cart!

Lots of good healthy foods can be added to your diet instead of fried foods and can result in a healthier, heavier you.
Dana Prince

1. Breakfast Cereals

If you are on a gain-weight-fast diet program, just eat 10 or 20 grams more than the recommended portion size of your favorite breakfast cereal. Anyway, if you get carried away and overfill your bowl, you have the rest of the day to burn off those excess calories.

2. Pasta

A 2-ounce serving of cooked pasta contains only 75 calories. It’s the rest of the ingredients, such as the meatballs on the spaghetti which contribute to this being a high-calorie dish.

It’s such a good dish that I bet you are still drooling puddles after that description. I wish I had a pic but alas the drooling clogged my head and I just stared at it.
Jonathan

3. Peanut Butter

Spread a couple of tablespoons of smooth, salted peanut butter on bread gives you 192 calories!

4. Chocolate Nut Spread

A 100-gram serving of chocolate nut spread has 541 calories so you’ll really pack on the pounds by munching on these sweets.

5. Cheese

One serving of the good old cheddar cheese packs a good 69 calories.

Cheese is basically concentrated milk, so its nutrition value is similar. This means high in protein and calcium but also high in fat, cholesterol and cheese calories.
Tom

6. Dressings

Depending on the type of dressing and the amount that you will pour on to your favorite salad dish, it can pack 50 to as much as 85 calories for each 1-tablespoon serving.

7. Butter/Margarine

Salted butter has 36 calories for each 5-gram serving. The calories should pile up, depending on the thickness of the butter or margarine that you’ll spread on the bread.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients
in other foods.
Deb

8. Chocolate

One mini-chocolate or candy bar can contain 37 calories. It tastes

9. Whole Wheat Bread

You can eat healthy and pack on pounds at the same time by eating whole wheat bread instead of the overly processed white bread. One slice of the brown variant contains 69 calories.

10. Guacamole

Aside from being good for the heart, a creamy batch of guacamole ups the ante in your weight-gain program. A 261-gram serving contains as much as 360 calories.

Avocado is one of the most recommended fruits as well as a food for bodybuilding and medicine for cholesterol-related heart disease.
Mansi Desai

11. Yogurt

The fruit-flavored, non-fat yogurt can give you as much as 118 calories for a 125-gram serving.

12. Pure Fruit Juice

Aside from giving your body the vitamins and nutrients that it needs, pure fruit juices also pack a lot of calories. One ounce of the commercially-packaged fruit juice contains 57 calories.

13. Bananas

One large banana contains 20 calories, and when you slice that up with your peanut butter sandwich or breakfast cereal, guess how much more calories you can get.

Bananas have the reputation for causing weight gain for good reason. They are very high in simple carbs. Eating a lot of them will make you gain weight but it probably won’t be from muscle.
JP Clifford

14. Nuts

All types of nuts are good for the heart, and are high in calories. Salted, roasted cashew nuts, for example, has 165 calories for each serving.

15. Olive Oil

One tablespoon of the olive oils that you use at home contains 40 calories and it’s healthier than the regular cooking oil that you use for frying.

Olive oil, which is pure fat, contains 1920 calories per cup. Any food that has a lot of fat in it will have a high calorie density.
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16. Lard

If olive oil’s healthy, just wait until you hear the caloric content of lard. One tablespoon has 115 calories!

17. White Meat (Chicken)

Chicken breast, which is supposed to be the healthiest and fat-less part of this type of white meat has 78 calories for each serving which contains about 70 grams.

18. Bacon

One thick slice of an exquisitely satisfying bacon contains 174 calories, which is perfect for those who are trying to gain weight fast.

19. Salmon

A 3-ounce serving of salmon contains 152 calories.

The richest dietary source of Omega 3 fatty acids are cold-water fatty fishes such as Salmon, Tuna, Mackerel, Sardines and Hoki. Fish are a rich source EPA and DHA fats, the two most essential omega 3 fats.
William Coit

20. Beef

If you have a serving of beef strips for breakfast, three slices would cost you 153 calories.

This list works well for those who are watching their diet, too.

Remember that if you would like to reach your weight gain (or weight loss) goals, learning as much information as you can about the food items that you pile on your grocery cart helps a lot.

It’s all a matter of choice on whether you would like to pack on a few more pounds to be a la-J Lo, or if you would rather shed off the excess weight and strictly watch your diet.

Being comfortable with your body and being happy with what you’re eating is what’s important.

Remember!

Remember that being obsessed with counting the calories that you consume will only work if you know exactly how calories are being used up by your body. When you eat a big fat, juicy burger, for example, there is no need to burn off ALL those calories in one super-intense exercise session. Your body does need to retain some calories to serve as a fuel to the normal functionalities of the heart and the lungs.

So long, bellas!

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