This is a really great site that not only offers products but also gives some really good advice re: trying to put some weight on (esp. children). I ran across it by mistake today when looking up arrowroot info.
http://www.specialfoods.com/weight.html
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When Your Child Needs to Gain Weight
By Karen M. Slimak
...8. Eat more frequently. The stomach empties every two hours, so if you are having trouble getting your child to eat enough at meal times, increase the number of meals (complete meals, not just snacks) to as many as you need, up to as often as every two hours. 9. Encourage your child to chew his or her food thoroughly. Calorie intake can be increased by more thorough digestion. Especially for carbohydrates, critical digestion begins in the mouth. If the food is swallowed quickly, this vital step can be missed. Tell a child to chew each bite until it tastes sweet. All carbohydrates become sweet when the digestive enzymes convert them to the more simple sugars. The sweet taste lets you know that the food is well mixed with the necessary digestive juices and that chewing has been long enough. It is very hard to chew a large mouthful of food, so encourage your child to keep the bites to a manageable size....
...Sweet potato breads, muffins, crackers, cookies and nut butters are particularly appropriate for promoting weight gain. The best of all is the white sweet potato nut butter. Made of only whole white sweet potato flour and oil, the white sweet potato flour is moistened by oil instead of water, producing a nut butter substitute that is high in complex carbohydrates and soluble fiber as well as fats. This makes it an easily digestible, highly nutritional and highly caloric food. Spread on a dense piece of bread or on dense crackers, and with added jams, the result is the maximum number of calories possible per bite, and some super great taste!
The sweet potato nut butters and other imitation nut butters from Special FoodsTM were specifically designed to provide the highest calorie content possible per bite while also providing nutritional balance..
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Wow! I just read her story. It's a good one that parents like us can really relate to!
http://www.specialfoods.com/inspiration.html