While most Americans are fighting a common battle to lose weight, one part of the population is struggling to gain weight. Gaining and losing weight are equally difficult to achieve. People who want to gain weight in a healthy manner often join a gym to gain muscle mass and increase their appetite. Though these changes in lifestyle can be enough to gain muscle mass and weight, if one includes healthy snacks in their diet, they could accelerate this process.

Healthy snacks have multiple health benefits, which is why people should add these to their diet. However, most people find it difficult to keep up with a healthy snacking habit as these snacks are not available in stores and preparing them can be quite time-consuming. At such times, you can look up several easy snack recipes on the internet that will help you gain weight. You can prepare these at home without using too many ingredients or spending too much time.

Nuts and dried fruits
You don’t need any pre-preparation to consume nuts. You can buy good quality raw nuts from several stores. You can choose nuts like cashews, almonds, walnuts, pistachios, apricots, and raisins for a quick and easy snack between your meals. All nuts contain over 90% fat. Fat has nine calories per gram, making these nuts one of the most effective foods for gaining weight.

Apart from healthy weight gain, nuts and dried fruits have several other health benefits. They provide antioxidants, proteins, and nutrients to the body, and reduce cholesterol.

Smoothies
Smoothies are easy to make and are the best food item to consume as a snack for gaining weight. They also contribute to your health by providing balanced nutrition to your body. You can make yourself a glass of strawberry avocado smoothie, banana peanut butter smoothie, chocolate banana smoothie, chocolate peanut butter smoothie, or peaches and orange juice smoothie. If you don’t like any of these choices, you can craft a new smoothie recipe by adding your favorite fruits, and fat and protein-rich creams.

Most smoothies require milk, yogurt, vanilla extract, and some fruits and food items. If you want to put on some weight but stay healthy, avoid adding processed sugar to your smoothies. Additionally, you can also add whey protein powder to some of your smoothies to gain muscle mass, and drink it after a workout session.

Peanut butter sandwich
It is quite easy to prepare a peanut butter sandwich. To make it healthier, you can use quinoa or other whole-grain bread and unsweetened peanut butter to make a sandwich. Since peanut butter is rich in protein, you can have it post a workout as that will help you build muscle mass. Also, if you don’t work out, you can have this easy snack at any point between your regular meals.

Additionally, whole-grain loaves of bread are great for gaining weight, especially when you combine them with a good source of protein like peanut or almond butter.

Dark-chocolate
Dark chocolate is one of the most delicious, easy and healthy snacks. You can buy a bar of dark chocolate from a store and have it whenever you’re feeling hungry between your regular meals, or you can combine dark chocolate with whole-grain bread to make a delicious snack. If you want something more filling, you can make a dark chocolate banana smoothie. Apart from helping you gain weight, dark chocolate also provides a lot of antioxidants to your body.

Whole eggs
Though people think that eggs are the best food to lose weight, one can also consume eggs to gain weight. The difference lies in eating whole eggs, which means, the egg yolk. Plenty of quick and easy recipes use eggs, and you can try these at your home and consume it between meals. Some of the easiest egg recipes include scrambled eggs, sunny-side up, omelet, egg sandwich, scotch egg, hard cooked egg, and boiled eggs.

Whole eggs not only help you gain weight, but they also give your body adequate amounts of protein and fat. Additionally, eggs provide numerous nutrients to the body including vitamin A, vitamin B, selenium, phosphorus, and folate. These nutrients help the body stay healthy and fight infections.

Fruits
Fruits are one of the healthiest ways to gain weight. They not only provide appropriate nutrition to your body but also curb your hunger pangs between your regular meals. Bananas, mangoes, apricot, avocados, figs, grapes, strawberries, and apples are some fruits that help you gain weight. As mentioned earlier, you can add some of these fruits to your smoothies as well. You can make an easy snack by combining these fruits with peanut butter, almond butter, or hummus.