Promoting weight gain

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Here are some ideas of high calorie foods to help promote weight gain. Remember that high calorie foods are often preferable to healthy foods when trying to promote weight gain. You can add high calories foods such as cream, oil, butter, sugar, sour cream, etc. to lower calories foods that your child likes. For example, make mac and cheese with heavy cream instead of milk and add parm. cheese; add butter or oil to vegetables; or spead peanut butter (use natural with no sugar added) on apples or crackers. Pureed baby foods tend to have less flavor and calories than pureed table foods, so attempt to puree table food if your child only accepts smooth foods. For easy to keep portions, freeze a larger batch in ice cube trays, transfer frozen cubes (~ 1 oz) to a zip lock baggy and then defrost cubes as needed.

• Microlipids is the brand name of a fat emulsion manufactured by Novartis. It can be added to formula. We get it through our enteral supply company, as it's considered a medical food like the formula we use. The nice thing about the Microlipd is that it stays thoroughly emulsified in the formula so we don't have to worry about it separating.

• Cheese (120 calories per oz.) - low sugar food
• Sweetened condensed milk (120 calories per Tbs)
• Granola (115 calories per oz) - low sugar food
• Vegetable oil (110 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• Butter (110 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• Mayonnaise (100 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• Peanut butter (94 calories per Tbs) - Here is a short gut friendly brand:[1]. Two Tbs has 200 calories, lots of Omega 3 (flax seed oil) and only 1 gram of sugar per serving. All natural, but tastes like Skippy. Found at the local supermarket, Wal-mart, etc.
• Ranch salad dressing (70 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• Honey (60 calories per Tbs)
• Heavy cream (60 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• Corn Syrup (60 calories per Tbs)
• Jam and Jelly (52 calories per Tbs) - available in sugar free
• Maple Syrup (52 calories per Tbs - available in sugar free
• Laughing Cow cheese (50 calories per wedge) - low sugar food
• Cream cheese (50 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• White sugar (45 calories per Tbs)
• Cheese Wiz/Easy Cheese in a can (45 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• Chocolate Syrup (45 calories per Tbs) - available in sugar free
• Alouette cheese spread (40 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• Gravy (26 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• Evaporated milk (25 calories per Tbs)
• Sour cream (25 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• Parmesan cheese (24 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• Whole milk (20 calories per Tbs)
• Half and half cream (20 calories per Tbs) - low sugar food
• Ice cream (17 calories per Tbs)
• Pediasure (15 calories per Tbs)

• High calorie vegetable - avocado
• High calorie fruit - banana
• High calorie snack foods - Hulless popcorn (melts easily in the mouth), cheese curls (melts easily in the mouth), graham crackers & peanut butter crackers, cream based soups

• See also Calorie supplements and Sugar and Fats and Oral_Aversions_and_Feeding_Problems