Ideas for high-fat snacks?

[AngelDog]

Any suggestions for high-fat snacks I could make for my DS? Most of what he has is low-fat so it would be good to give him more fat.

He can't eat dairy, nuts or tomatoes.

At the moment I give him breadsticks, rice cakes, oat cakes, pancakes, little turkey rissole things, mini quiches and fruit.

I give my DS roast veg which I roast in olive oil. Guess that would have a fair bit of fat. Not sure how old he is - if he's beyond eating them mushed up a bit you could mush it up and put it on toast. My DS also not having dairy and I do wonder about him getting enough calories as he seems to be droping off his milk intake faster then I expected with starting solids.

When I said 'not sure how old he is' I meant your DS, not mine!

Also no dairy here. I quite often give dd avocado to add calories - you can mash and spread on rice cakes/ oat cakes / toast etc.

I didn't think babies were meant to have low-fat foods.

its probably low fat due to no dairy, nuts, etc and not because she is deliberately offering low fat foods. Avocado and banana are higher in calories than other fruits. Are there oils you could add to foods?

I know, FourFourtyFour - that's why I want to give him more high-fat stuff. Seona is right that the low fat issue is mainly because he's off dairy and nuts (I used to give lots of nut butter & cheesy biscuits etc but we're abstaining to see if it helps his eczema).

He's 14 months and we did BLW. He's in a fussy phase at the moment so I do find it tricky. He's not keen on most vegetables (roast or otherwise - apart from broccoli), he likes toast / rice cakes / crackers etc plain or with just margarine rather than other toppings, and isn't keen on fish either.

Seona, thanks, I'd forgotten that he'll happily eat rice cakes with olive oil on, so I might do that more, and I could probably add oil to his porridge. I try to fry as many things for him as I can - hence having pancakes a lot.

He does bf around 4 times a day so he's getting fat that way too.

coconut milk/fat is calorific. i add that to some foods, i add unsalted butter to my ds veg and olive oils to pasta etc. my 16 month old is not avoiding dairy due to allergies but tends to avoid it himself! he is also at the picky fussy stage.
my friend makes scrambled egg with rusk init for her son and that has really bulked him out. my son wont eat scrambled egg though.

So glad other 14-16 month old are being fussy eaters. Must be a normal fussy stage.
Wont eat fish, anything with batter or breadcrumbs or pasta atm.
Will try avacados myself....seen then just haven't a clue what they are like, what to do with them or know when ripe enough.

mashed avocado with mashed banana mixed together with either creme fraiche or soured cream - yummy.

Humous on rice cakes/oat cakes etc

Eggs - are eggs classed as dairy?

So the fats he can eat are animal fats, vegetable fats like olive and sunflower oil? Is he sensitive to coconut too? And are you avoiding peanuts as well as tree nuts or just tree nuts?

You could try offering roast chicken drumsticks as snacks. Or if you have the time homemade burgers or kebabs (just good quality lamb or beef mince, maybe mixed with some spices to make it more interesting then shaped and grilled).

Although dairy free cheese can be a bit grim the dairy free soft cheeses like Tofutti are alright and he might like them spread on rice cakes. I realise he isn't keen on fish but you could try a salmon pate if you mash steamed salmon into tofutti with some lemon juice.

Egg mayonnaise goes down well here. Again either in sandwiches or on a rice cake or oatcake.

Avocadoes are ripe if you can feel the flesh give slightly when you press your thumb into them. It is hard to find them ripe in the shops, you may need to let them ripen for 2-3 days at home.

Egg mayonnaise goes down well for sandwiches or on rice cakes here.

And although no use for snacks if he can have coconut milk it is very calorific and DD loves this recipe: www.eggbutnobacon.co.uk/2008/12/leon-gobi/. She won't eat plain cauliflower but she will happily eat it when cooked in this sauce. The recipe will work fine if you leave the ground almonds out.

Sorry www.eggbutnobacon.co.uk/2008/12/leon-gobi/

Thanks for the suggestions - plenty for me to try. I'd not thought of coconut, so I'll give that a try - a quick google suggests that coconut allergy is possible but rare. That curry looks tasty, VeronicaCake. I am avoiding both peanuts and tree nuts.

I'd not thought of combining foods eg banana and avocado so I'll try that. I've always struggled with avocado - I always miss the point of ripeness and find they've gone off. I think they're vile myself so it's hard to tell by taste whether they're ripe or past it.

I put some oil in his porridge this morning and added finely chopped avocado, and he swallowed it happily so I'll perhaps continue with that approach. Porridge is great for getting other veg into him too!

sparkleshine, I'd heard about 15 months being a common time for food fussiness. DS used to eat absolutely anything except hot chilli (at 6.5 months he was eating stilton cheese & onion bhajis, for example). His current faddiness serves me right for being smug pleased at his previously wide-ranging tastes.

If you can express some milk you could add that to porridge too to up the calories. I tried making porridge with breast milk and it smelt foul and then DS was sicky all day so I don't recomend it, but you can make it with water and get it really thick then thin it down with expressed milk. My DS likes this with bannana in, or mango. He also has whetabix for breakfast with expressed BM.

Home-made hummus (to make sure its nut-free) would be a high calorie snack. Olive oil would boost the fat content.

Olives too if he likes them.