My eating experiment showed I'm not ready to move down to 3 cans per day [View all]

I thought I could get the calories I needed to stabilize my weight, but I couldn't eat enough calories to kept my weight up without bread, cheese, and meat. I think brow rice could help because it has 200 calories per cup. I made some bean and rice tacos, but that didn't provide 300 cals. I lost eight lbs over the past few weeks. Maybe a bit of deep fried veggies would help? I'm from Kentucky and we believe, "if you can't deep fry it, it ain't food."

So, have any advice for a resurrected vegetarian that needs to keep from wasting away?