help- food ideas for seriously ill friend please- postable

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A friend of Dh's (and mine but DH's for 20 years) is seriously ill atm with a liver condition. Its 50 /50 if he survives this. His best hope is surgery, but they refuse to try unless he can build himself up and eat more. Drinks are off the menu as he is on a max of 1 litre a day which he reserves for his beloved cups of tea.

He is obviously in hospital, so I need ideas of things that can be posted as well as taken as he is 100 miles away in Birmingham. We went today but obviously can't take Sam and co over Easter so would like to post stuff, little 'treats' on weeks we can't go.

Easter we will post him an Easter Egg (he's 61 but what the heck...) and when I go up after I will take a Lemon Drizzle.

Ideas please? he's bed bound so not hungry and also very bloated so things packed with calories would be perfect

TIA

some Green and Blacks chocolate
boiled sweets to suck
yummy biccies

Nuts are good.

What about chicken soup - or is that too liquid?

A boiled fruit cake which is packed full of fruit but very moist and improves with keeping. Delia has a recipe in her cake book- Mrs Green's boil and bake. It would be heavy to post though.

Betty's deliver lovely fruit cake \link{http://www.bettysbypost.co.uk/\here}

I have just taken my dad in hospital his fav which is uncooked chocolate biscuit cake with a chocolate topping. always called gunge in our family. That would be lighter to post, also flap jack.

I could take the fruit cake though couldn't I? Or dh could pass to his best mate to take up (the ill friend is best mates Dad).

All good ideas and thanks

an more plese? Have a feeling this is for the long haul . We're closer than his gamily in Somerset but they can only go up once a week at most. So want him to feel special and remembered as well as feed him up. He's a lovely chap, sort of eprson who appreciatess small gestures meant well iykwim. Plus him and his wife of 40 years are smitten and are never, ever normally apart.

Bookmarked delivery site thanks.

Flapjacks too- you lot full of good ideas

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robinpud - do tell us that recipe (uncooked choc cake) sounds delish!!!

My dad is in hospital and a long way from us and 100 miles from home. We are just trying to send little packages of drawings etc every few days to lighten the day and provide conversation. The children have made him quizzes etc. I think these help as muc as food.
why is he so far from his wife?

Tablet? MM!!
Fudge!
Caramacs (oh ok personal craving that just popped up!)

My Grandad doesn't have a stomach so has to have teeny amounts of highly calorific foods he usually goes for

a wee bit of very expensive poch yummy cheese, with a home made oat biscuit
a few pieces of very dark chocolate
a handfull of nuts
and the old fave - grapes!

What about those wafer thin posh belgian biscuits dipped in chocolate...mmm!

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robinpud - sounds delicious...recipe plese! (sorry for highjack!)

Gunge
I'm not big on amounts but basically bash up some biscuits in a bag with a rolling pin. I prefer a mixture of rich tea and digestive.
Melt some marge, cocoa ,syrup and a small amount demerera sugar in sauce pan. Bring to boil for 1 min. Turn off. Bung in biscuit crumbs, stir and taste stir and taste. Bung in a greased tin and wham in the fridge. Lick bowl a lot.
The low cal version is served neat but for true conoisseurs you melt a packet of cooking chocolate, plain( none of your 70% choc stuff here please!) and spread over the top.
cut into small pieces to serve to everyone else and big pieces for the cook. It does bring grown men to their knees and propose marriage. Probably not highly recommended for long term patients on cardiac wards but hey ho!

If you must have quantities someone bump and I will walk downstairs and look in choc stained book.

The fruit cake is a winner too tho'

Thanks ropinpud - you've made me dribble [salivating emoticon]

LOL at "lick bowl a lot", when I was a kid I always wanted my mum to leave lots of cake mixture in the bowl for me to lick. Now I'm the mum I can leave as much as I like (ensuring of course I have first scrape with my back turned to the kids)

When my gran was in hospital several years ago, a young girl with Crohns disease was eating meal replacement diet bars to help build herself up (I think several more per day than the diet recommended!).

Pleasure Wallace but I particularly like licking this one cos ther's no eggs in it. I licked a cake bowl out 2 summers ago and give me and ds salmonella. It's not the best way to lose a stone in 4 days. I am not huge to start with, so no licking cake bowls here anymore I let ds have a little and he was so poorly. Free range eggs, in date but not kept in fridge!

bump robinpud (especially apt name for this thread me thinks) for those quantities for gunge.

pretty pretty please (with oodles of chocolate on top!!!)

Ok- have been supervising ds icing humungous chocolate cake for dd when she gets back from Brownies.
100g/4oz butter
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tablespoon demerera sugar
2 tablespoons golden syrup

200g crushed biscuits and about 4 oz chocl on top. Scale up or down. Swap biscuit crumbs for cereal. Used to make htese with bran flakes when I was expecting to boost iron levels. Add raisins if you must. With shredded wheat for easter baskets.. but never met a kid that actually eats the basket!