Can anyone think of high fat, quick, portable snacks?

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DS needs to put on weight, he's heading for being fed at night by a tube if he doesn't start going up on the weight charts rather than down, he's 11 and has a medical condition that causes him to not absorb fat, he is on a prescribed very high fat/calorie/salt diet.

I have been advised to take a box of high fat snacks into school for him to have something at break time, it needs to be something quick, that doesn't need any prep and isn't too messy ideally. I have the obvious muffins, cheese, flapjacks but I'm struggling to vary it. There is a no nut rule at school so that rules out snack packs of nuts.

Yeo valley tubes as suggested by PP here www.yeovalley.co.uk/things-we-make/for-children/little-yeos-fromage-frais-strawberry-vanilla-yeo-tubes

If you freeze them as you buy them, they don't even need to be kept in the fridge, they'll be nicely slushy by mid-morning break and still chilled at lunchtime. Or if kept in a freezer, make a great lollipop alternative.

Tortilla wraps.

Tortilla spread with cream cheese and loads of smoked salmon or salami or ham or ...................... Roll and cut into cartwheels.

When he comes home dry heat a pan, heat the tortilla until it starts to crisp slightly, fill one side with grated cheese, fold the other side over on top, turn down the heat and keep an eye on it and wait for the cheese to melt. You can add tomato to this.

Cauliflower cheese with cholesterol levels of cheese.

Soup with loads of cream.

Butter on all veg, and cream and butter in mashed potato.

It is not just about the tube, there is the faff of keeping it flushed, keeping the wound clean and germ free. (This rules out swimming) and then the upset of eventually having it removed.

HTH

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I had to see a dietician as i had lost a lot of weight and I was told to drink full fat milk,so maybe get some of those milkshakes formhim to take to school as they are fine with an icepack until lunch time. Also on my list was real butter, cheese, biscuits, hot chocolate, white bread and lots of nuts, beans and pulses. So cheese and crackers, a flask of beans with a white roll and butter on, biscuits for a snack etc.

I know you have a no nuts rule at school, but the only thing that really helped me to gain weight (and this was after months on the high fat diet) was eating a handful of peanuts or cashew nuts a few times a day and peanut butter on toast, so may be when he's at home try to get as many of these into him as you can.

Ooooh beans! Whack a load of cheese in with them too, lush

All good suggestions, I'll ask about the nuts and whisky shopping I've discovered cadburys Pots of joy have 9g of fat in them.

My friends son has the same condition and she purchased a microwave for the school and sent her DS in with micro burgers DS is v.worried about seeming different or odd though so he wants something he can eat quickly and easily and be on his way with the rest of the class.

I have the same situation with DD2 who always loses so much weight during term time :(
Against my better judgement I have been giving a bag of crisps for breaktime - the ridgecut ones for extra fat
Meridian nut bars are fantastic - DD survived on these at school for ages before the dreaded nut ban...Now I hand her one as soon as she gets out the school gate. At home I also do milkshakes using a mini tub of Ben & Jerrys.

Babybels,/individually wrapped cheesesticks
Mini cheddars
Cheese straws
Choc chip brioche
Donuts please let no one look in my trolley at Tesco

Oykos Greek yogurt comes in pots rather than tubes but also has 9g fat per pot. (And tastes rather good too).

Home made sausage rolls, make the puff or rough puff pastry with butter.
Home made quiche, butter in the pastry and double cream, cheese and bacon for filling.

You could probably find a recipe for nut free bliss balls. I'm thinking sunflower seeds, dried fruit, cocoa, coconut etc in the food processor.

Coconut is high fat. At Holland and Barret etc I have seen some bars that are tasty.

They have quite a good snack range and some would be nut free.

Cheese sandwich, keeps all day, very filling.

Poor you, such a worry!

That literally IS the worst typo ever. Yuk.

On the sweet side,
Victoria sponge with buttercream filling
Lardy cake, singin' hinnies
Eccles cakes, Chorley cakes
Brioche buns
Puff pastry turnovers

More to suitable eat at home ~ suet puddings with egg custard, baked custard tart, treacle tart, gypsy tart.

Could you get Calogen shots or similar on prescription?
I think they can be mixed with 'normal' stuff like yogurts or milkshakes or just quickly 'downed'.

Is he good with enzymes to ensure he gets full benefit of efforts he's making?

Seedy bread for his sarnies - 2 slices of the M&S one with pumpkin seeds is about 300kcalories.

Individual pots of rice pudding or custard.
Cheese straws- make with all butter puff and lots of cheese.
Frijj milkshakes.
Cheese or pizza topped rolls
Cornish pasties

Best of luck

You can make your own yogurt - do you have a slow cooker?

Crisps comes to mind, or any sort of roasted veg.

Anything made with nestle's milk, you can actually put it in sandwiches but if you buy the ready boiled tin it would be basically sticky toffee.

I know you said nuts are banned but technically peanuts are legumes not nuts - could you argue for peanut butter sandwiches? Or chicken satay? I think they should make an exception for medical need unless there is a child with a serious allergy. I mean if you were asking them to keep insulin in the fridge they would probably allow it yet it would be very dangerous if another child took it. Anyway I expect you have had this argument.

Samosas are fried (the real ones not the supermarket ones) and although they are a bit of a faff to make they do freeze well.

Is it just high fat? Dried fruit has a lot of sugar in it. Chocolate raisins or other dried fruit dipped in chocolate.

Milkshakes might be OK, not that easy to carry.

How about getting a sandwich toaster, butter the bread on both the inside and outside with actual butter and fill with cheese, egg, whatever and can be taken in and eaten cold.

mozzarella carriages, basically a round (hence the name but you can just use sliced bread) mozzarella dipped in egg and fried.

Scotch eggs, and for a change egg nargis - basically an Indian version of a scotch egg.