High calorie dairy free foods for low weight dc's

[AcademicMum]

DS2 is nearly 1 and has a dairy allergy but is very small for his age (just 8 kg). I'm slowly learning to build up a little repetoire of high-calorie dairy-free food for him, but am always on the look-out for new ideas. I know many other children who are dairy-free have the same problem, so i thought I'd start a thread for people to swap ideas/recipes/tips etc on how to get those extra calories into our dairy-free babes.

Anyone interested?

I discovered that ds2 likes chips (just normal chips), so I give him them very occassionally (and there was me who refused to allow ds1 to have chips at nursery...).

Also tried the oat-cream with fruit (pureed up with a handful of blueberries) and ds2 loved it.

Gave him duck for dinner - now there's meat with some extra calories (I feed the boys meat even though I'm veggie myself).

When roasting a chicken, cook potato with it. Slice the potato into thick slices (1-2 cm), layer the slices with onion, garlic and fennel seed arranging the layers so that there is a central hollow where you put the chicken. Cover and cook, removing foil and basting for the last 0.5 h.

Potato takes up juices from the meat this way and gets more calories in (plus they are very well flavoured). Can also do this dish without meat and use some oil (useful if you want to limit the amount of fat).

Another recent discovery is Tofutti Sour Supreme which is soya-based sour cream. Load of calories (around 260 per 100g) and actually pretty good for cooking with. None of the over-sweetened taste you get with standard soya cream.

I have just discovered that DS who is 2 absolutely loves olives!!!

Which I'm absolutely delighted about as it gets some much needed calories into him and is healthy.

I make mashed potato with olive oil - flavoured mash works really well as potato is such a great carb and you'll be giving lots of nutrition and vits too.

Grate an apple into the mash to sweeten it. I stir in grainy mustard too but might be too hot for a little one?

have you tried them with dried fruit? And buckwheat pancakes made with rice milk, served with honey or fruit sauce.

Bought some of these, which are really nice and the coconut milk adds some extra calories.

I'm just going to make some of my own next time though with coconut milk and pureed pineapple in an ice lolly mould.