High calorie savoury snacks for a toddler

[Merrow]

DS2 (15 months) has just been put on a high calorie diet. He's a fantastic eater, but has some underlying health issues that means he's burning through things. The dietician suggestions were more on the sweet end (chocolate milkshakes, puddings etc.) but he really doesn't have a sweet tooth - he prefers vegetables to fruit, bread and butter to biscuits.

I know the general advice to add to oils / butter/ cheese to everything, but does anyone have specific recipes? The problem I'm having is that most things I've found online seem to be aiming to be healthier! I can up the fat content of his main meals easily enough, but it's adding snacks / puddings that I'm running into issues with. He loves toast so I can certainly smother that in more butter, and croissants he'll always devour so they can become a daily thing.

I think muffins are probably a good place to start as when I've made them before he's liked them, but I've tended to do "healthy" ones. I think I need ones that are high in fat rather than high on sugar, and I'm not sure if there's any keywords or anything to look into for that. I suspect nut butter ones could be good? He does like peanut butter.

If he likes pizza, I'd let him have pizza. the main problem with pizza is the amount of fat and calories, exacerbated by the fact that most of us eat portions that are way too big. But good quality pizza is basically bread, tomatoes, and cheese and you can massively up the nutritional content by including a wide selection of vegetables as per his preference. In fact, encouraging pizza eating with vegetables and higher quality cheese is probably a good thing - less likely to be devouring the dodgy cheap pizza that flows when he's older!

I don't make my own dough but I quite often buy the sourdough pizzas from places like M&S or even just the bases without the cheese and tomato and then I add things like roasted peppers (If I'm feeling super fancy I do them over the flame on the stove to get that charred thing going down). Or I use a griddle pan to do aubergines, courgettes and onions then top with some good pancetta and I usually add some feta cheese or a bit of extra chedder and in the oven. Really good. Definitely high calorie, but not as terrible healthwise as it could be! :)

I also have a friend who regularly did her toddlers "pitta pizzas" - where she would just put some passata and cheese and some bits of whatever else on a pita and stick in the oven.

These cheese muffins are a hit with my two www.asda.com/good-living/recipe/leek-cheese-bacon-muffins?recipe_id=384df1a0-2aff-11e9-8802-7daf07a34f81

Cheese scones and quiche are good too.

I tend to add sunflower and pumpkin seeds to flapjack, they're still sweet but it does take the edge off.