Gaining

I use mass gainer from Walmart. A tub is about 20 somethin but I also like to add cake mix and "boost" calorie supliments.

Heavy cream is very reliable. I’ve chunked up a bit after a week of drinking m a pint a day!

Heavy cream or egg nog. Both relatively affordable compared to specialty stuff, but more importantly, both low prep. With cream, I mix it with chocolate milk or ice cream to make it taste better, and with egg nog, I just pour it and drink it. Simplicity is key, at least for me, a complicated shake that’s a pain in the ass to make won’t get made regularly and so it can’t help you gain no matter how good it sounds in theory.

I drink Boost meal replacement shakes too, but those are mostly for nutrition since I get deficiencies otherwise and they are NOT affordable. Still, if you have the cash to burn and like the taste enough to drink several in a day, I think they go down easier than the things I usually drink with the intention of gaining and they definitely upset my stomach less.

Since I don't eat dairy I eat a lot of plant-based stuff there's not many options but I usually would drink Soylent it's basically like a boost but it's a vegan version It isn't necessarily cheap unless you can't find good deals which I try to do or I just make my own high calorie smoothie with a peanut butter oats and fruit and a few other things I also love putting in coconut because it's cheap Because you can make a cheap high calories smoothies