High calorie but vaguely healthy meal ideas for 15 month old? HELP!

[TaffyandTeenyTaffy]

Teeny Taffy has now dropped below the 2nd centile - 17lbs at 15 months ..... less than all the 6 month old he was weighed with today. He has never been a great eater but has recently developed a bit of a thing for fruit - great, but not much in the way of calories. In the last 6 weeks he has dropped another 5oz - ok, I know hes active, but we have a hospital appointment next month and I really dont want him to drop any more before then.

He still has 3 bottles of full fat milk a day and eats lots of cheese/yoghurt/
bread type things - but is not a great lover of family meals (not liking to be spoon fed). We have mostly done BLW and he will eat junk (biscuits/crisps etc) and loves anything sugary - but I need some ideas for something a bit healthier but full of calories to help him gain a bit of weight. He wont eat mash potato and is not a great lover of pasta..... so I am a bit stumped.

Any ideas would be great thanks x

Avocaado is supposed to be really high in calories and also really dence in nutriants. Works well fed as finger food in slices, or if he will accept bannana from a spoon (it's the only thing my ds will be spoon fed) mash it with bannana - even I think that's yummy and your LO will think it's fruit! Have you tried porridge fingers? Make think poridge and leave to solidify then cut into fingers. You can add fruit to it to make it sweeter and I've snuck avoccado into porridge too. And how about sticks of rosted vegetable, rosting tends to make veg tast sweeter. Sweet potatoe, butternut squash, peppers, corgettes, parsnips, pumpkin all work well. If he eats toast see what you can sneek on that. My ds will currently eat pretty much only toast or rice cakes so everything else has to go on top (and hope that it doesn't get scrapped off!). Peanut butter and humous are helathy but fairly high in calories and make good toast toppings. You can also get unsweeted fruit conccentrate spread in health shops - good for toast or sweetening plain porridge.

I agree with the avocado. Also eggs can be useful and make your own custard. I gave mine lamb and duck based meals too.

What about a Satay type curry: it has peanut butter (if you are happy giving nuts) and coconut milk - both very high fat. You should use chicken thighs rather than breast; cheaper, tastier, more iron and higher fat!

Also fattier meats like lamb could be given

Pesto is also good (but make your own) - pine nuts, cheese and olive oil all high calorie And kids seem to love it (I blend a couple of tomatoes with it too to help veg count)

Good luck.

I second avocado. And eggs. And banana.

Ooooh thank you guys - lots of great ideas there - Keep them coming!

A few things mentioned that we have tried and have been refused in the past - but would be good to try again. (Shame Its all the scrummy stuff that I cant eat on slimming world!!!) He does eat a lot of banana - but I hadn't really thought about mixing it with other stuff other than yoghurt, so that could work.

Will let you know how we get on.... but thanks for now.

other nut butter on toast as well as peanut butter - its available in health food shops. Mix mascapone in with avocado and put that on toast, in fact mixing mascapone in gets more calories than mixing yoghurt into things. cheese scones, quiche.

will he eat polenta squares - grilled - My ds loves them and again you can get butter and cheese into them quite easily as well as things like sweet potato.

Also as well as satay, curry with cocunut milk and cream

rice pudding with cream, fruit, pine nuts

(most of these are ideas from bliss the prem baby charity)

How about making some little pasties using puff pastry (you could buy readdy rolled) and filling with a mix of anything he likes plus some fried onions, grated cheese, full fat creme fraiche and breadcrumbs. my dc like spinach,cheese ,onion, cremefraiche and breadcrumbs and if i wasn't veggie I'd fry in some bacon as well.I use shortcrust pastry but puff is nicer and more calories.
I make cheese souffle for dFIL who is on a high cal diet.

There's a mumsnet recipe for cheesejacks that I keep meaning to try for dFIL too.

Oh yes, peanut butter's a good one.

my nightmare fussy eater dd loves peanut butter spooned straiught from the jar if she's on a protein binge day. since the other stuff she eats is fruit/veg puree, rice cakes and porridge this seems a great way of getting lots of calories in a small volume

I make mine fish pie. you could up the calories by adding some cream. If he's really not keen on mashed potato you could make it with sweet potato instead. And peanut butter chicken (if he prefers finger food you could let him dip chicken bits in the sauce). I mix some peanut butter with warm coconut milk and a bit of soy sauce. Houmus is full of calories too. Maybe mix grated cheese into veg and fruit purees. Full fat greek yoghurt is 10% fat, so much more calorific than even some of the children's yoghurts (like petit filous).

Have you thought about swapping his full fat milk for gold top/jersey/guernsey milk? It has slightly more protein and fat in it so more bang for your buck so to speak

Also, adding double cream to everything that will take it. DD3 struggles with weight gain after having bronchiolitis multiple times and went from 91st%ile to 2nd%ile in her first 9m or so.

When she was allowed solids (started at 26w but taken off them by paed so she could recovered from Bronch.) we went with a mainly BLW diet but she had 100mls of double cream, instant porridge and fruit puree every morning with at least 2 of the following every day in addition (or substituted) to normal family foods:-

scrambled eggs made with d.cream & full fat soft cheese (or omelette made the same way cut into strips),
cheese and butter on buttered toast,
homemade roast potatoes/chips/potato wedges,
mashed bananas with cream,
full fat greek yogurt with fruit puree and double cream (can whip it a bit to thicken it up if needed),
mashed potato with cheese/d.cream/butter (though as you say your DS won't eat that!),
cheese on toast,
fingers of cheese,
macaroni cheese with the sauce made from butter, flour, full fat milk, d.cream, full fat soft cheese, and cheddar,
bread sticks dipped in full fat soft cheese.

None of these sound healthy for an adult but a young child needs calories especially if they are not gaining weight. Our paed was very approving of her diet and now as we have stopped doing this (when she was 12-15m I weaned her off all the extra high fat stuff) her weight has only gone up 60g in 3m (15m-18m) and no growth in height at all.