Dreaming of the day he'll eat a quart of ice cream...

[Guest guest]

Ha!

But hey, the wife and I have been doing the South Beach diet while we

do what we can to keep fattening him up.

Our kid is a picky eater (just the luck for a kid that needs to eat

all that is in front of him). Wife and I are pretty well obsessed w/

making everything high fat/calories for him. He was a premie and

obviously w/ CF, we've gone from way off (low) the charts to 10% the

past few months.

We've been pretty " slow " in getting him to feed himself just because

the importance in getting as much in him as quick as possible each

time (the pickiness)...starting to try and break that now as his

weight had been doing pretty well (i.e. if he screws around too much

instead of eating we may not have such a good meal at times).

[Guest guest]

All I can tell you is what my wife and have been doing (mainly my

wife...but I get to give him dinner when I get home ;-).

Start w/ the spaghetti idea:

1) Highest calorie jar you can find at the store.

2) 1 lb. of the fattiest (sp?) meat your store/butcher has got (now

that we moved back south...fewer folks look at us funny when we buy

the lean stuff for us and the fatty stuff for him).

3) Brown the meat, poor the meat (w/ fat) and jar of sauce in to the

blender and blend that baby.

4) Put it in to ice cube trays, freeze, and then use a cube or two

for a meal.

I just stick a couple in the microwave for 40 seconds, stir it up,

and he usually loves it. Very smooth (obviously don't add noodles if

that would turn him off).

Other ideas (though some have " lumps " , and we're familiar w/ that

problem):

Cheese...appropriately sized pieces (or grated)

Cottage cheese

Mashed potatos (lots of butter and sour cream blended in)

One thing it took him a while to like, but now loves are scrambled

eggs....cook the eggs in peanut oil and a hunk of butter plus a

splash of whipping cream (good lord how could it not be good)...put

some cheese on it and after it melts break in to finger type food.

> My son is 2 1/2 w/cf, my 12 1/2 daughter w/o cf and he won't eat

anything but yogurt and step 3 foods. If it has a chuck of anything

he won't eat it. How can I make it high in calories and fat. He

will eat spaghetti sometimes but it is all low fat and low calories.