Nourishing Drinks

If your appetite is poor and you are having difficulty managing solid foods, the following will provide you with ideas for nourishing drinks. Wherever possible try to replace water, tea and coffee (these have minimal nutrition) with a drink as shown, in order to boost your calorie and protein intake. This may help to give you the extra nutrition you need and may help with weight gain or stability. Calorie and protein content will be shown.

Fortified milk
Mix 4 tbls (50g) of milk powder (e.g. Marvel, Five Pints) with a little milk to form a paste. Whisk this into 1 pint of full cream milk. Store in the refrigerator and use as ordinary milk.(560 kcals + 37g protein)

This can then be used:

Soup
1/3 pint fortified milk
1 tin of condensed soup
Blend together
and swirl in some cream
(413 kcals + 19g protein)

Sweet Recipes
Strawberry Milkshake
1 pint fortified milk
4 scoops strawberry ice-cream
8 strawberries
Blend (801 kcals + 42g protein)

Banana & Yoghurt
2 bananas
200g bio yoghurt, 2-tsp honey
Blend (436 kcals + 13g protein)

Coffee Calypso
1/3 pint fortified milk
2 tsp instant coffee powder
1 tbls double cream
1 scoop ice cream
Sugar to taste
Blend (463kcals + 16g)

Papaya & Passionfruit
½ ripe papaya de-seeded
Pulp of 2 passionfruit
100mls grapefruit juice
1 tbls sugar
150g bio yoghurt
Blend (342 kcals + 10g protein)

Chocolate Smoothie
1/3 pint fortified milk
2 scoops of chocolate ice cream
1 tbls chocolate powder
Blend (477 kcals + 18g protein)

Pineapple & Coconut
¼ ripe coconut (scooped out flesh)
250mls unsweetened coconut milk
150g bio yoghurt
½ vanilla pod scraped
Blend (295 kcals + 9g protein)

Ice Cream Soda
1 large glass lemonade or cream soda
1 scoop ice cream
Float ice cream on the top
(170 kcals + 2g protein)

Carrot & Celery
1lb (454g) carrots
1 bunch celery
½ pint tomato juice
Worcester sauce to taste
Blend together
(371 kcals + 14g protein)

Carrot & Orange
2 oranges juiced
2 lbs (900g) carrots
150g plain yoghurt
Blend together
(513 kcals + 8g protein)

Fruit Flip
1/3 pint fortified milk
1 x 150g fruit yoghurt
1 scoop ice cream
Blend (462 kcals + 23g protein)

Banana Milkshake
1/3 pint fortified milk
½ chopped banana
2 tsp sugar
2 tbls cream
Blend (556 kcals + 15g protein)

Raspberry Delight
150gm pot raspberry yoghurt
150gm pot double cream
200mls cranberry juice
15 raspberries
Blend (885 kcals + 14g protein)

Kiwi Fruit & Yoghurt
3 ripe kiwi fruit
150g bio yoghurt (thick + creamy)
100mls fortified milk
1 tbls honey
Blend (384 kcals + 14g protein)

Pear & Apple Smoothie
400mls apple juice
2 pears
150g bio yoghurt
Blend (390 kcals + 9g protein)

Apricot & Apple
150g dried apricots soaked in 200mls apple juice
150mls fortified milk
150g bio yoghurt
1tbls honey
Blend (711 kcals + 24g protein)

Melon & Banana Smoothie
½ melon
2 pineapple rings
2 bananas
½ pint fortified milk
Blend (591 kcals + 24g protein)

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