Ideas for high calorie healthy snacks to help me put on weight pls

[Sistermoondance]

Hi there,

I am struggling a bit with my weight as I am ebf my dd who is 4 1/2 mnths. I am normally about 8 stone and petite, but now am struggling to stay over 7 stone. I have a sma stomach so can't eat much in one go so I snack continually. I find it hard to find time to prep stuff because my dd is quite needy.

On an average day I eat a bowl of museli, a fried / scrambled egg with toast or potato waffle for elevenses, cuppa soup and slice of toast / small bowl of past and cheese or salad for lunch, and a popper dinner. In between I eat on av 100-200 grams of chocolate and or choc cakes and biscuits. I tried eating nuts but now sick of them. I have tried snacking on fruit but find it a waste of time as hungry 20 mins later and not helping me put on weight. I have tried yog smoothies but too much diary makes me feel sick.

Ughhhh feel guilty about eating so much sweet stuff and worry I will give dd a sweet tooth and need some ideas about stuff which is fattening but not too unhealthy and comes in a packet and doesn't need prep!

Any ideas would be welcome

Thanks

Avocado
Add cream to your scrambled egg

What do you call a "proper dinner"?

And sorry for the typos- doing this on my phone, I have a small stomach and eat pasta and a proper dinner lol!

Those soft flapjacks with chocolate topping.
Posh crisps
cheesy biscuits with philadelphia

Ohhh flap jacks :-) and cream cheese on biscuits - great!

Proper dinner would be chili con carne, roast something, Thai chicken curry, veg and pasta a cheese, chinese stir fry. Meat at least evert other day... And veg. Occasional take aways :-)

I have never tried cream in scrambled egg - worth a go :-)

Houmous and really nice crackers (although you have to watch the salt in crackers)

And add avacodo to your sarnies or make gaucamole to have with crackers or if you want to push the boat out, cheese straws.

Thai chicken curry - do you use coconut milk/cream?

Good quality sausages/Toad in the hole
Chicken pie
Add grated cheese to mashed potato

Not many calories in chinese stir fry.

Tinned/fresh soup instead of cuppa soup!

Maybe add some fish (smoked mackerel or smoked salmon would be easy) to scrambled egg.

If you have a small stomach/appetite you need the highest amount of calories which of course is in fats, not sugar. Dairy foods also have vitamins and calcium in, so try to eat lots of butter, cream and cheese. (You can worry about the cholesterol later!) Old fashioned 'Nursery' food will fatten you up:

Muesli for breakfast is fine for fibre, but do use full-fat milk. Have a small portion and follow it with a small slice of toast dripping with butter and honey.

Put cream in your scrambled egg.
Cheese on toast, pizza, cream cheese on crackers for savoury snacks.
Baked potato with lots and lots of butter and cheese plus salad with high calorie dressing.
Savoury dips with crisps are a good way of eating extra calories too.
Add extra calories with sauces, eg healthy fish but in a thick creamy/parsley sauce, lasagne with lots of white sauce and cheese on top instead of just pasta and pesto.

For sweet foods: Eat a cream cake like a chocolate eclair for a dessert.
Bread and butter pudding with whole milk, or rice pudding with cream and jam will give you maximum calories.

Most of us can overeat by having lots of different foods to choose from. You should be able to fool your appetite a bit and stretch your stomach by having lots of different foods to choose from, so even if you're not hungry you can fancy 'just a taste' of something.

Gosh that was long. Hope it's helpful and not a lecture. (I love food!)

pastry?
croissants etc. are high calorie & not very filling.

Oh bless you.

Just eat all the things I like:

Cheese on crackers, cheese on bread, bread and butter, philadelphia on breadsticks or crackers, cheesey crackers on their own, bread and peanut butter, nuts, chocolate raisins, greek yogurt with honey, avocado and bacon sandwiches, chorizo, salami, hoummus, white wine, red wine, coffee with milk and a large tsp of sugar. You will be the size of a baby elephant in no time.

Thanks everyone, got some good ideas here....

I don't forget to eat but far too easy to just grab biscuits with a drink when my dd is needy than even take time to spread cream cheese on crackers :(

Loads of people have complimented me on losing my baby weight but actually I'd have rather had a slower weight loss as this feels a bit too quick and like I am battling to keep some weight on!

I wish I had your problem

Well... In theory it does sound like a good prob to have but I am permenanyly hungry even when my tummy is full and my belly stocks put even though the rest of me is skinny and I feel tired all the time. I do worry about dd too but I keep getting reassured that she will take all from me that she needs and it willbe me that doesn't have enough nutrients etc..

ICE CREAM! LOL

Flapjacks are great - my staple diet ATM (though I'm not struggling to put on weight, LOL). Pretty quick and easy to make. I ususally double this and that then lasts me 2 weeks:

100g butter - melt in microwave in 30s bursts. Stir in 50g golden syrup, stir in 80g (or slightly less if you don't like things too sweet) of brown sugar (any kind), stir in 250g oats in stages. squish into a baking tin (lined with parchment) and bake - usually 10-15 mins at 160, depending how squishy you like them.

I add chocolate chunks or chopped nuts, fruits and seeds - whatever I have really.

Peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Fried.

Well, if it was good enough for Elvis...

Fondant Fancies, they're tiny and about 100 calories each. Cartons of Ribena are abput 200 calories each iirc.

If you go to your doctor she will send you to a dietician who will give you lots of fortisip or similar. You should do this or you'll start to get tired and looking after the baby will be tricky.

Otherwise try and eat lots of protein - are you veggy? Lambs liver is a really good one - its got loads of fat and all of the minerals and iron you need.

My dietician didnt even mind me eating junk food as long as I put on weight.

Don't eat too much fibre either as it will fill you up with not enough calories.

My area of expertise! I have 2 children on high fat diets! One from having Cystic Fibrosis and one for just being a 'skinny minny' who doesn't eat sod all :D

I make Milkshakes with cream and ice cream, these can get a bit sickly but are packed full of fat and cals.

Also if you have veg put a knob of butter on them.

Full fat cheddar is great for calcium and is high in fat and cals.

Also you can get build up weight gain shakes in health stores if they might help.

I assume you have seen your GP as any sudden weight loss of if you feel your underweight should be checked and you could see a dietician to help you out.

Eggy bread is a good one too, and a variation of it where you make a sandwich of mozzarella without the crusts in a triangle then press the sides together and put it in beaten egg then fry it - yummy, mozzarella in carroza or some such...

may we consume calories vicariously through you?

Have you seen your GP and had things like your thyroid checked? I lost weight quickly after DS1 and had far more energy than you'd expect on such little sleep. Plus I was kind of jittery and unable to sit still. It turned out that my thyroxine levels were too high.

Since having DS2 three months ago I've been losing weight, but my thyroid levels are normal this time. I think it's just because I've cut out dairy to see if it helps his reflux, and struggle to make up for the lost calories. I'm eating lots of flapjack (I add grated apple/sultanas/cinnamon, orange zest/nuts/sultanas, mashed banana/peanut butter), peanut butter on toast, marshmallow crispy cakes, and haribo!

I'm in the same boat (5'4", 7st, bf). The practice nurse advised me to go hell-for-leather on dairy stuff and it seems to be working (I'm up 3lb in 2 weeks). So if something can take some cream or butter or milk, I add it. e.g. porridge round here is more like a dessert now, made with full fat milk, and cream and honey added. Quite a nice way to live, actually :)

Even slim people can get heart disease. You do need fat more than sugar as it has more calories, but make it healthy fats, ones that are liquid at room temperature. Peanut butter sandwiches on wholemeal, avocados, olive based spreads instead of butter. Probably harder to follow a healthy diet to gain weight than to lose it!

Its not for ever though sprinkles - and its actually quite frightening to lose a lot of weight and it absolutely drains you of energy.

I think if you're 7stone its more important to get the calories in then it is to worry about heart disease tbh.