What is the temp and cooking time for the muffins? If you don't have large muffin pans would the mini-bundt pans work? Thanks! They sound wonderful!

We are having this exact same issue.  We succeeded in helping her to gain 9 pounds in 6 weeks and now she doesn't want to gain anymore.  She got her exercize priviliges back at her 90% and now has said she is done gaining weight.  As of today, per our conversation with her therapist, any day she doesn't finish her food she doesn't exercize the next day.  Not as punishment but as " your health is the most important thing and we can't jeapordize that.  We hope that you feel better tomorrow and can finish all your meals so you can get back to the activities that you enjoy when you are healthy." We will see how it goes.  This part is so hard--you have my sympathy.  I hope the resistance and the accompanying depression and rage subside soon.

Oh yes ! A high calorie suggestion: 

Instead of a easily rejected smoothie, we opt often for one or 2 "whey chocolate milks" with meals along with meal/desert.  They sometimes go down better than the larger smoothie.

225-250 Cal

8 oz whole milk

2 T choc syrup

1/2 scoop whey protein (whey is milk protein and doesnt alter taste much)

Shake it up and let bubbles settle before serving. 

Thought I'd post this here, too, for those who may be looking for high-calorie info. 

In trying to find some information on warm, high-calorie drinks, I discovered a number of recipes on the Stanford Cancer Center website.  Most are cold shakes, but could they be heated after blending?

(http://cancer.stanfordhospital.com/healthInfo/nutritionAndCancer/during/highCalDrink/default)

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Shake, 1070 calories:

1/2 c. heavy whipping cream; 3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter; 3 tablespoons chocolate syrup; 1 1/2 c. chocolate ice cream; Blend in blender.

Hot Chocolate at 416 calories

3 oz. milk chocolate; 1/4 teaspoon vanilla; 1 teaspoon butter; 1 c. Half & Half®; Melt chocolate and butter. Add vanilla and slowly stir in Half & Half®, small amounts at a time. Reheat to desired temperature.

This is a ready-made drink:

Sandishake® - 600 calories per serving
The Sandishakes are available at the Medical Plaza Pharmacy at 1101 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA.  They can also be purchased thru ScandiPharm, who makes the drink.  ScandiPharm can be contacted at (800)472-2634 or at http://www.scandishake.com.

More info about Scandishake at:  http://www.axcan.com/scandishake_us.php

I was looking for avocado recipes (325 calories for one medium avocado)
and thought this looked easy:

 peanut bacon and avocado sandwich:

Ingredients
8 thick slices of wholemeal bread, buttered
2 tbsp crunchy peanut butter
2 tbsp mayonnaise
8 rashers bacon, grilled
1 ripe avocado, thinly sliced and sprinkled with lemon juice
shredded iceberg lettuce
freshly ground black pepper

Method
1. Spread the peanut butter on four slices of bread and mayonnaise on the other four.
2. Place the bacon, avocado, lettuce and pepper on the peanut butter spread slices and top with the mayonnaise spread slices. Cut each round into four.

 I found an almond meal/flour in the bulk section at Whole Foods. It was near the Wild Rice. 100 grams is 604 calories. I am going to try adding it to the shakes. Cystic Fibrosis web sites also list high calorie alternatives and additions.

This morning I made my dear d hot cocoa:

2 T butter

1 T cocoa powder

1 c premium vanilla ice cream (substituted for the 1/2 c sugar in the original recipe)

1 c whole milk (you could substitute 1/2 c cream, 1/2 c milk)

3 T Ovaltine

1 t vanilla (optional)

Melt butter, add cocoa stir.  Add ice cream, melt & stir.  Add milk, ovaltine and stir.  I put it in the blender before it got really hot and returned it to the pot to heat.  This made it creamier. 

This is a total of 785 calories (more if you do the cream/milk combination).

You could add marshmallows if you like, too!

Creme brulee is our traditional Christmas Eve dessert.  I recently learned how high in calories it is.  Now I know it wasn't just the Christmas cookies making my pants tight around the holidays.  It is very easy to make, too.  Buy the really big ramekins, not those little whimpy ones.  My daughter gets to burn the sugar with the torch.

And somebody pass me the elastic waitbands.....

A new bottled product (refrigerated) in our store, "Hersheys vanilla cream milkshake"  (there are other flavors but this has most calories) has 640 c per 16 oz bottle. It is next to the milk in our store.  I think this will be convenient when I don't have time to make a shake, or to carry with us, or to mix with the shake (I did tonight) , or to serve as the mealtime drink instead of plain milk or juice.

tiredmom, the Carnation Instant Breakfast has a recipe section with great smoothie ideas: http://www.carnationinstantbreakfast.com/Recipes/Recipe.aspx

Some of the recipes use the fat or sugar free Carnation Instant Breakfast packets but you could subsitute the other ones!

This is not responsive to the previous post but since this topic is still active I would like to know how you convince your child to drink shakes and eat hight calorie foods.  Don't they read nutritional labels? Our daughter is absolutely adamantly opposed to shakes in particular.  We would have to hold her down and use a feeding tube. 

rmc

I think every anorexic is terrified of becoming obese and an overeater - but that isn't real recovery - it is substituting one eating disorder for another. As someone else suggested, once she has stabilised you can help her as you have done already  - lovingly and compassionately help her to eat 'normal' portions.

First, my personal favourite...

 Hot Chocolate {High Calorie}

4 oz Half & half cream
4 oz Whole milk
2 tb Chocolate syrup
Heat milk and cream. Stir in syrup and milk powder until smooth. Serve immediately.

ALSO... http://www.hdny.org/recipes.html

this is a great site for some high calories 'normal' foods, the following recipies are provided... Salmon Ala Blue, Baked Chilcken Salad, Hamburger Strogonoff, "Impossible" Quiche, Veal Marsala, Noodles Alfredo, Apple Kuchen, Bread Pudding, Cheescake, Cheery Cheese Tarts, Impossible Pie, Oatmeal Brown Bread, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread, "Almond Joy" Shake, Pina Colada Chicken.

And I just googled high calorie recipes (i didnt even know you could do that!) and came up with some extremely good sites... There are some great drinks, if you want to move away from the smoothies.

http://www.mealsforyou.com/cgi-bin/recipeCategory?category.calories+orderBy.calories+dir.DESC+loHi.high

http://www.dieteticsatwork.com/client_education/sample_high_calorie_high_protein_recipe_final.pdf

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MBC/content/MBC_6_1_Recipes.asp

http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/UVAHealth/hub_cancer/reciphic.cfm

http://www.nnuh.nhs.uk/docs%5Cleaflets%5C172.pdf

I'm cutting and pasting the following information from a diet article about 'foods that fool' people into thinking they're low-calorie and low-fat. I hope the author won't mind it being used by parents re-feeding their kids back to health! We didn't count calories during that phase, but many of these foods were on my d's menu:

"Granola -- Most brands are loaded with calories and sugar. In fact, granola is one of the most calorie dense cereals on the market. A typical ¨ø cup serving has 220 calories and 17 grams of sugar - that's more than 4 teaspoons of sugar. What's more, most people pour 2-cup portions - that's a whopping 660 calories and 51 grams sugar (12 teaspoons -- yikes!).

2% Reduced-Fat Milk -- 2% reduced-fat milk is not that low-fat/low-calorie when you consider that whole milk is 3.3% fat.

Breakdown for 1 cup milk:
- Whole milk: 150 calories
- 2% reduced fat milk: 120 calories
- 1% reduced fat milk: 100 calories
- Skim milk: 80 calories

Chicken Caesar Salads -- It's a salad, right? What could be unhealthy?  Thanks to excessive dressing, croutons, and cheese, a standard chicken Caesar salad can total 1,130 calories and add more than 90 grams of fat to your diet!

Dried Fruit -- All fruit is packed with nutrition; however, dried fruit is significantly higher in calories than fresh fruit when you calculate comparable amounts. That's because you're taking out all the moisture leaving a small piece of concentrated sugar (albeit "natural" sugar).
 
Consider this:
- 12 small pieces of dried mango = 320 calories
- 2 red apples + 15 grapes + ¨ö small cantaloupe = 320 calories

Yogurt Covered Nuts -- This yogurt snack is strictly food for the soul! It's filled with calories, sugar, fat... and clearly NO active cultures. In fact, 20 yogurt covered nuts = 460 calories, 32 grams fat, 14 grams saturated fat, and 8 teaspoons sugar.

Banana Chips -- Bananas fried in oil and sugar - over the top! Consider that 1 cup typically provides 300 calories, 20 grams fat, 18 grams saturated fat (that's the artery clogging type), and 19 grams sugar (4.75 teaspoons).

Trail Mix -- Although packed with healthy nutrients and fiber, traditional trail mix is also loaded with calories that add up quickly. In fact, ¨ö cup typically equals 350 calories (that's the same number of calories as 11 cups of air-popped popcorn).

Fruit Smoothies -- It's true, fruit smoothies can provide a lot of nutrition, but they pack in the calories as well. One 24-ounce smoothie provides about 450 calories. That's the same amount of calories in 10-12 doughnut holes! "