Lani:

Please take care of yourself.

I was raised by my grandmother who was a farm girl. She grew up learning how to stretch a meal. She made wonderful food which included fried red tomatoes. She dipped them in flour and fried them in lard. I tried them this past summer but the taste was still a little off. Maybe next summer I will be ready for tomato sandwiches. She also made fried zucchini. Sliced zucchini dipped in eggs and fried in lard. Thats one thing that tasted great last summer.

French toast and also pancakes are very easy to eat too. Use lots of butter and syrup and pancakes will melt in your mouth. Cream of wheat is something I eat almost daily with butter and sugar.

Hope you try the choc/peanut butter shake, it is loaded with calories and if you have 2 per day it will help you to gain some much needed weight. You will feel so much better if you are getting proper nutrition. My thinking is that since your weight is so low it wouldnt hurt you to be getting way over 3000 calories per day. At one point I had been getting at least 5000 per day for several weeks and didnt gain an ounce, and have no thyroid problems. Your body just burns it up so fast when you are recovering. I recently gained 10 pounds but it wasnt due to overeating, it was the steroid medication Ive been on. Now Im off of it, the 10 pounds dropped right back off.