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Moms with special needs children often find it difficult to find good information readily available for their child's specific needs. While this may only be of interest to a few people out there, it is important to share resources I have stumbled upon in hopes they may help another parent or caregiver out there. Our youngest has severe respiratory issues and mostly, due to genetics and his chronic sickness, has had a difficult time truly gaining and sustaining weight. We have been adding to his diet since last summer and while he isn't rapidly growing, he is finally starting to gain a bit. He is still classified as "failure to thrive," but even had a several month healthy streak where he gained nearly a pound.
As a mom, my goal was to add calories in other ways than beside just adding a TON of straight fat, butter or oil to his diet. He also has an older brother and we have worked hard to serve them similar items so he isn't always wanting what his brother has instead of what he is served. For example, my youngest drinks special calorie and vitamin-enriched juices so we started letting my older one drink some juice too. When it's snack time, they both get juice that's similar in color in similar cups so we don't usually have too many issues.
Over the next several weeks I would like to share some recipes and ideas that have come from our nutritionists, gastroenterologists, pediatricians and other medical professionals as well as ideas that come from companies that make some of these specialty drinks and products. Hopefully this will give other parents ideas of what they need to do if their child needs extra calories and fat in their diets.
This week, we have gotten permission to reprint several small recipes I found in a sample box of PediaSure. We have tried many of them and so far, my youngest love them so he is getting extra calories and nutrition by eating these than regular substitutes. Our youngest is nearly two years old and the older one is three-and-a-half so sometimes the older one eats the specially prepared meals as well and is better able to verbalize his thoughts on the taste. He LOVES the waffles and pancakes especially.
All of the recipes are copyright Abbott Laboratories and can be found in a PDF to print here.
Waffles
2 cups of Bisquick or other baking powder biscuit mix
1 1/2 cups Vanilla PediaSure or PediaSure with Fiber
1 large egg
2 TBSP of Canola oil
Mix batter and pour onto hot waffle iron.
*Note - You can cook the whole batch and freeze the waffles you don't use. Just put them in between wax paper and into a plastic storage bag and freeze. Take out and toast halves of waffles in toaster on frozen setting.
Pancakes
2 cups of Bisquick or other baking powder biscuit mix
1 1/2 cups Vanilla PediaSure or PediaSure with Fiber
2 large eggs
Mix batter and pour about 1/4 cup of batter onto lightly greased griddle or heavy skillet. Cook until surface is golden brow, turning to cook second side when pancakes have bubbly surfaces and slightly dry edges.
Banana Chip Muffins
14oz Pillsbury Banana Quick Bread and Muffin Mix
8fl oz bottle of vanilla or banana cream PediaSure
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
1/2 cup miniature chocolate chips
Banana Cream Shake
1 8fl oz of banana cream, strawberry or vanilla PediaSure - chilled
1 banana
Blend in blender and server.
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