need to get more calories into skinny ds

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I took ds2 to the GP today to get his weight checked out (he's very skinny and doesn't have much energy). She's going to be reviewing him in 3 months' time but has told me to forget 'healthy' eating and try to give him more calorie-dense food. He's militantly vegetarian, has a tiny appetite and is pretty fussy about trying new foods. He loathes courgettes, mushrooms, peppers, aubergines, beans, most vegetables in fact ....

any ideas gratefully received

full fat milk, yoghurts, adding butter?

Whay type of things does he like?

How old is he? Have you read "My Child Won't Eat" by Carlos Gonzalez, published by La Leche?
GL

what about nuts as a snack? Or seeds?

chocolate milk drinks, choc in squares, porridge with sugar/syrup, butter/cheese on toast

Olive oil on all veg, ground nuts and seeds in breakfast porridge (if he eats that), nut butters spread on bread, things like hummous with raw veg to dip....

All these will provide calories and more importantly proteins, minerals such as iron and healthy fats.

Puds - jam sponge, cakes, scones, flapjacks, shortbread

Home made smoothies can help.

If you go down the sugary foods route you're setting him up with bad habits in the future and filling him up with empty calories. You can stuff more calories in easily on a healthy diet. Does the doctor expect you to give him crisps?

How old is he? LOL at his militant vegetarianism but hating veg...

Tell me what he eats on a usual day and let's see if we can see where to add calories.

A blob of butter in potato iwth grated cheese. My two would both eat that when they were being fussy. (salt free butter)

i'd give him cheese potatoes..pasta...that kind of thing.

thanks for suggestions so far - he's 9

usual day would be something like a bowl of cereal in the morning (weetabix and semi-skimmed milk) with fruit juice, lunch today is cheese sandwich, small piece of flapjack, frube, apple, water, tea will be cauliflower, potato and cheese bake with peas

he takes forever to eat so has fairly small portions (and even then takes longer than everyone else), rarely eats pudding, likes fruit, loves tomatoes, doesn't like smoothies

oh same age as my ds...(he's very skinny too, i have problems getting him to eat), but thankfully he loves cheese/potatos/pasta.

OK - give him full fat milk, regular yoghurts not low fat/low sugar, cheese, pulses, pasta. Will he eat things like peanut butter on toast or crackers? Bananas? Grapes? Berries? Jacket spuds with cheese, baked beans, vegetarian chilli? Will he eat eggs, egg mayo, omelettes?

fried tomatoes on toast, a fruit pie, what about some veg curries & nan breads

mashed potato with cheese added, and tonnes of butter
scramble egg made with lots of butter and cream
avocados
nuts are "healthy fat"

I recently made some flapjacks from an MN receipe that were obscenely good and very calorific - lots of condensed milk ,syrup and butter. will find recipe if you like.

Peanut butter on toast
Avocado (tell it's fruit as it's a pear)
Chocolate

Does he have any snacks after school?

Thanks all

paddingtonbore that flapjack recipe sounds revolting, but I'm sure he'd love it

I don't tend to give him many snacks other than fruit as he then doesn't eat his tea

however, he's just come home from his friend's house where he refused to eat anything at all!! I can see we've got a long way to go ...

LOL. have a look at soupdragon's recipe on this thread. It sounds so wrong, but is very, very right.

marscapone cheese -- I use it in things for DS. Very high calories! Can be disguised in a number of things: pasta sauce, mash, soups...

some of the advice on her is pants

if you feed a child chocolate i is empty calories

he will be full but quickly burn off calories

OP

ds is the same and when he gets ill he is slow to recover

he is properly skinny and a couple of month ago i took him to be weighed and like you decided to make an effort to put on weight

then he got ill again and lost more but i have weighed him again and he has gained weight ..he looks better too

porridge in the morning is my mainstay- i make sure he has this ff milk if poss

i then just do a bit of 'one last one' with every meal and up the anti on offering friut etc between meals

i am careful not to fill him between meals as that would be counter productive