Healthy food to put weight on...

Tealady_2

My daughter has problems gaining weight as well. I quite often put ground almonds into her food as this helps. As the post above said peanut butter is good as are any other kind of nuts and seeds.

Good luck

Queen_of_NO_MATTER_WHAT

What’s your appetite like and what do you usually eat? I know someone who isn’t a big eater who needed to gain weight so she did it in ways that wouldn’t mean she was eating a considerably bigger portion of food at meal times. She switched to full fat products like milk, cheese and yogurts, she added a tablespoon of olive oil when cooking where as usually she would cook without or use low cal sprays, added a handful of nuts and dried fruit to her porridge in the morning, the same at lunch time swapping wholemeal bread for a wholemeal bagel, adding a little cream to her soup. There are plenty of sneaky ways to add calories without even noticing that you are, and just as the key to losing weight is to cut down on calories, the way to gain it is to eat more than your body needs.

Dave101t

buy a big tub of mass-builder or whey protein and sprinkle it on all your food like sugar.

charliee_3

come and stay with me for a week.. me and DF seem to have no probs gaining weight :rolleyes:

culpepper

Barley and corn are both supposed to be good for weight gain.
Not sure how corn might affect IBS but I think barley would probably be okay.

Molly41

I used to work with profoundly disable kiddies who also had problems with weight and needed to gain. This is what we did:
Full fat everything in everything eg mashed pot with blue milk/cream/ butter/ cheese
We added cream to lots of foods such as macaroni cheese
Eggs for breakfast cooked in butter
Cereal - high calorie and blue milk
Puddings - homemade rice/ semolina with cream, sugar
Small meals - appetising but fullfat - 5 small meals throughout the day
Combine foods with sugar and fat
Hot choc
You can get on prescription a powder that you sprinkle over food and add to drinks - i think its called Quickcal but you need to speak to GP.

Just some ideas that could rustle up. I totally understand that its a problem as im a mum of a very skinny very tall DS who worries the life out me..he seems to survive on fresh air. However he hardly ever gets ill and has the consititution of an ox!
Mollyx

Pink.

Hi elaina,

There is some advice on this thread that may help:

Need to put ON weight.

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

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elaina79

Thank you all for your tips. I might have a word with my doctor about that quickcal stuff. That sounds ideal, I can just add it to the meals that I eat for some extra calories without getting too full and feeling sick. My appetite isn't good at all I can quite easily go through the day and only have 1 meal and not even eat all that.

I can't eat breakfast coz I feel too sick in the mornings so I have complan milkshakes to give me a bit of a boost. Does anyone know of a website where it gives you the colorific count of food. I am interested to know how many calories I am actually getting.

SueC_2

sylphraven wrote: »

Also, due to the schools pushing the "Jamie Oliver" ideals he is now very concerned about what he eats.

I think this is a worrying trend. A friend of mine has a four year old son, who is very very thin - from slim family history and has always been a bit of a picky eater. His school have recently been giving basic nutrition information, as an outcome of which, amongst others, my friend has encountered the following responses to her attempts to encourage him to eat:

"Is that good food or a bad food"?

"I'm not eating that, it'll give me that 'fat' stuff that grows on your body".

I fully appreciate the importance of teaching kids the need for a healthy diet, but teachers really need to be aware that there is a need for balance, and not to take it too far in one direction!

tandraig

I wouldnt recommend the powders etc - they arent REAL food are they?
I dont think your 8 year old would be in danger of heart attack if they ate real butter and cheese and full fat milk!
my youngest son was severe asthmatic and dairy intolerant! so it was a challenge trying to keep his weight healthy!
he had a hearty breakfast - his fave was spaghetti bolognese! or weetabix with hot milk (soya)
lunch - for school - pate sandwiches with a pot of yoghurt for after - and a piece of fruit.
tea - jam sandwiches! he loved them
supper - whatever the family had.
and he snacked all day!!!! and always been thin as a rake! but his dairy substitutes were
soya milk
carob - for anything choclately - or some chocs dont contain milk - jaffa cakes and after eight mints were faves.
goats milk ice cream and yoghurt
nuts - brazil and pecan were popular
oh - and i perfected making sorbets for him in ice cream maker - most fruits sorbet well! one of his faves was watermelon another was blackberry. very healthy but high sugar content really!