The plan I wish I'd had on the days eating felt like work
A 4-week healthy weight gain meal plan, mapped out day by day, so you stop deciding and just eat.
There was a stretch after I got sick when food stopped being something I looked forward to. I was supposed to be gaining the weight back, and I knew it, and most mornings I still stood in the kitchen with no idea what to make and no appetite to push through it. By the time I'd decided, I'd lost the small window where eating felt possible. Then I'd do it again at lunch. Some days I just gave up and had toast.
What finally helped was not another recipe. It was writing the whole thing down ahead of time, so the deciding was already done. I made myself a four-week plan: what to eat each day, roughly how the calories added up, and one list to shop from on Sunday. I stopped negotiating with myself three times a day. This is that plan, cleaned up and built from the recipes I cook and photograph for this site.
What you get
- 28 days mapped out: breakfast, lunch, dinner, and one calorie booster each day, built from 25 tested Gaining with Grace recipes.
- A calorie figure for every day, so you can see the surplus you're working with instead of guessing.
- Four weekly grocery lists in checkbox format, with duplicates already merged so one trip covers the week.
- Every recipe printed in full inside the PDF, ingredients, method, and photos, so you never have to click back out to the site.
- An easier-to-swallow note on the recipes that have one, for the days when eating is harder.
Who it's for
This is for anyone trying to gain weight in a kind, steady way: recovering from an illness or treatment, eating again after a hard season, or a naturally lean person who has never managed to put weight on. If the hard part for you is the daily deciding, not the cooking, this takes that part off your plate.
Get the plan
The full 4-week meal plan as a PDF, all 28 days, the calorie figures, and the four Sunday shopping lists. The recipes are printed right in it.
Get the plan, $19
Everything in the plan, plus a 28-day calorie and weight tracker spreadsheet so you can watch the numbers move week to week. It works in Excel, Numbers, and Google Sheets.
Get the bundle, $29Try three days first, free
Take the first three days, the grocery list, and the full recipes, in the same format as the paid plan. Cook from it for a few days and see if it makes your mornings easier before you pay anything.
Download the 3-day sampleSecure checkout through Gumroad. You get the download instantly and a copy in your inbox. This is general nutrition information, not medical advice. Recipes and photography © Gaining with Grace.