Question Stranded Alien, what to feed it?

I'm rewriting my alien abductors, taking them from something inspired by MLP to something a little more Lovecraftian. The bottom image of this sequence is close to what I'm using. Note the lack of a mouth. I'm seeing this being as having been on Earth for a year in hiding, but I'm not sure what it has been sustaining itself on.

The thought had crossed my mind that it is it's world's version of the Sidhe, and feeds on Essence, thus the reason an Elf was snatched; Lunch. Or more accurately she's the replicator that provides lunch.

What else?

Reese's Pieces

A 2000 Calorie diet requires 5100 Reese's Pieces per day. That's 153,000 Reese's Pieces per month, or 12.9 kg. Since your alien doesn't have a mouth, I'm thinking they feed by bathing in them and absorbing the nutrition through their skin. According to Wolfram Alpha, even 12.9 kg of Reese's Pieces only gives a volume of 16 liters, barely enough to fill my bathtub to a depth of about 2 cm. That doesn't seem like it would be a very satisfying experience, but we probably shouldn't assume that your alien only requires 2000 Calories per day. The floating and glowing-eyes could burn a lot of energy. Assuming roughly human proportions, to be mostly submerged would require a depth after submersion of about 20 cm. An average human displaces about 8 cm in my bathtub, meaning that achieving this level of submersion would require 12 cm of Reese's Pieces before entering the tub, or 77.4 kg (roughly the weight of a person). If the alien feeds monthly and consumes the full 77.4 kg each time, this would average out to a 12,000 Calorie per day diet. That means they've got about 10,000 Calories per day of surplus energy to spend on funky alien shit after accounting for the expenses of normal human-like existence.

Every time I hear Reese's pieces and ET

All I can think about is the guy at M&M that passed that deal by and I am sure by X-mas that year he was fired or worse!

Better than McDonald's and Coca-Cola every five seconds...

Purina Alien Chow. I don't know if it would be sold at a local feed store or maybe available at PetWallysMart.

Hospital food. It clearly isn't supposed to feed humans, so perhaps it's intended for aliens?

Soylent Green

No, not soylent green. What if he LOVES it and tells everyone about it when he goes back?

To Serve Man. That brings back memories...

As I'm the writer if she gets candy it will be something I like, not Reeses Pieces.And I won't let her watch Singing in the Rain or make people puppets to reenact it.

Pop it in the bathtub and fill it with beer.
The beer will feed it and it will be too happy to do anything to the Earth

Astrodragon wrote: Pop it in the bathtub and fill it with beer.
The beer will feed it and it will be too happy to do anything to the Earth

I kind of like the beer in the tub idea, makes me think of the Beer Boy episode of the Drew Carey show.