OhHey:
All the places turning health conscious and making sure their menu is under a certain amount of saturated fats and calories makes wg hard.

I miss the days where you could get a salad that was 700+ calories. Back in the 90's and 00's, a Southwest Grilled Chicken Salad from Mcdonalds contained over 730 calories! (Now its just 350)

Also, I used to get the chicken fried steak meal from ihop that was over 1000 calories. It was really good too. Now its been nixed. RIP.

What are some menu items/places that you miss or remember that used to help you put on the weight?

Munchies:
I think some of these issues are location-specific. When I'm at (one state north of you), I can buy the IHOP chicken-fried steak meal. In fact, there are a lot of places where I live where you can buy a meal for well over 1,500 calories. But I live in a fairly rural area, so that may have an impact on this.

I will say it's more expensive to gain weight - especially past a certain point. Not just the food, but also having to size up when you outgrow things.

BigBallBellyGirl:
It's absolutely more expensive. My household food budget is probably average for a family of two, maybe a little more because I'm making a concerted effort to eat healthy, and vegetables are costly. But when I was gaining, our food budget was our biggest expense. Additionally, having a dress made for someone my size costs around $250. My feet have also grown too wide for regular shoes. I only have one nice pair appropriate for wearing out.

Reality is hard. We're well educated and successfully employed, but most assuredly middle to upper middle class income-wise. But my size still taxes our budget, even with "normal" food expenses.

Munchies:
Money is the ultimate reason why most people stop gaining - even more than health, comfort, or peer pressure. At some point, it gets hard to afford.

Monkeyman76:
Anyone have any idea for a fattening breakfast it's just the one meal that I don't know how to make super calorically dense?

Munchies:
Southerner here. There's scores of ways to make things more fattening.

- Cook things like eggs in butter or bacon grease.

- Include breakfast meats like bacon or sausage.

- Have two kinds of starches for breakfast like tater tots, pancakes, biscuits, or toast.

- Drink things with calories like milk, juice, or coffee with fattening additives