Meals and Nutrition: How the BruiseFuel Store Works

Food in Bruisers is not flavour text. Meals set your energy for the week, drive weight gain and loss, and cost money that a young fighter does not have. The BruiseFuel store is where all of it is bought, and the meal planner is where a career is quietly won or lost.

What the store sells

BruiseFuel is a supplement-and-food shop with three practical categories:

• Meals — prepared food that restores energy and moves weight. Staples are cheap and filling; protein-heavy options cost more and support training gains.
• Supplements — vitamins and similar items that top up specific needs. The store's own shelf labels them as either supplementation or a crutch; the second kind carries risk.
• Stacked items — bulk buys that fill a whole week's plan at a discount, useful once you know what your fighter eats.

Prices in the store reflect real 2026 money in-game: a $19.99 game, but a fighter earning $900 a fight still has to think about a grocery bill.

Meal plans and presets

Since the 10.23 hotfix the shop stores meal plans properly. You can save your own presets or pick from premade ones, and the plan persists, which means you are not rebuilding a diet every week.

Build two:

1. Camp plan — enough calories to hold weight, high protein, moderate cost. This is your default.
2. Cut plan — a deficit that loses weight slowly without emptying your energy bar.

Swap between them at the start of a camp, not mid-week. A plan changed halfway through a cut usually ends with a missed weight and a wasted camp.

How meals interact with weight

Weight is checked before every bout, and coming in heavy or light on purpose is a valid strategy. Food is the main lever:

• Eating above maintenance gains weight. The hotfix that capped fish at 2 lbs is gone; eating a fish now adds roughly half the fish's weight to yours, so fish is a bridge food rather than a bulk shortcut.
• Eating below maintenance loses weight, slowly at first and faster as the deficit grows.
• Skipping meals saves money and costs energy and recovery. It is a valid way to make a weight class in a pinch and a terrible way to run a camp.

If you are cutting, see how to make weight. If you are deciding which division to campaign in, read weight classes first; a badly chosen class makes every meal plan a fight.

Energy, not just weight

Meals restore the energy pool that training and work both draw from. The practical consequence: a fighter who eats cheap and works two shifts a week has no energy left to train, and a fighter who trains hard on a deficit gets injured.

Rough allocation for a mid-career week:

• Two thirds of your food budget on meals that support training.
• One third on the cheapest energy filler you can find.
• Zero on supplements until you understand what they do to your vitals.

Supplements, doping and the line between them

The store sells legal supplements and, later, the black market sells the other kind. Vitamins and legal stacks are fine. Steroids and doping products bought through the dark net are not: they raise performance, damage vitals and expose you to drug tests that arrive by email with no warning.

If a test is coming, no meal plan will save you. The doping and vitals page explains what each product costs you.

Practical routine

1. Open the shop before training, not after.
2. Load the camp preset and buy a week at a time.
3. Check weight against the division limit after eating, not before.
4. Keep two days of food money in reserve for a healing bill.
5. Switch to the cut preset the day a fight is signed.

That routine turns nutrition from a nuisance into the cheapest performance upgrade in the game — and it costs nothing but a minute at the shop each week.

FAQ

What does BruiseFuel actually sell?

Meals that trade cost against weight, energy and recovery. Cheap food saves money and costs you form.

Do macros matter beyond calories?

The store separates energy, recovery and weight effects, so a high-calorie meal that aids recovery can still be the right pick.

Is it cheaper to eat at home?

Yes, and slower. Home meals cost time you could spend training, which is the real currency in camp.

Sources

• Bruisers 2D Boxing on Steam
• Steam news and patch notes
• Bruisers 2D Boxing on SteamDB