Fortify Your Food and Drinks
Fortify Your Food and Drinks
Fortifying your food and drinks helps increase their energy and protein content.
It can be useful to fortify your food and drinks if you are:
· Losing weight
· Trying to gain weight or have a low body mass index (BMI)
· Experiencing a reduced appetite
· Eating smaller portions of food
· Eating less frequently
Click through the list at the bottom of the page for ideas on how to fortify your food and drinks.
For further information on drinks high in calories visit Drinks High in Calories
Add a sauce or condiment to main meals
- Cheese sauce
- Gravy
- Peppercorn sauce
- Salsa
- Guacamole
- Soured cream
- Marie rose sauce
- Mayonaise
- Mustard
Soup
- Coconut milk
- Crème fraiche
- Double cream
- Full-cream milk
- Milk alternative
- Fortified milk or milk alternative
- Soft cheese
- Grated parmesan
- Evaporated milk
- Have some bread and butter or a sandwich with it
- Add lentils
- Choose a cream of soup
Porridge and cereals
- Add double cream
- Add a spoonful of nut butter
- Top with a spoonful of jam
- Make porridge with full-cream milk, fortified milk or milk alternative as an alternative to water
- Top with a thick and creamy yoghurt
- Top with dried fruit i.e. raisins, sultanas
- Top with honey or maple syrup
- Top with ground nuts or flaked nuts
Add spread to bread, bread products or biscuits
- Jam
- Marmalade
- Nut butter
- Butter
- Cream cheese
- Honey or maple syrup
- Mayonaise
- Salad cream
Add a sauce to desserts/puddings
- Custard
- Rice pudding
- Condensed milk
- Yoghurt
- Honey or maple syrup
Add dressing to salad
- Salad cream
- Olive oil
Fortify potatoes or scrambled eggs
- Add double-cream
- Add full-cream milk during cooking
- Add butter on to boiled potatoes or in to mashed potatoes
- Grate cheese throughout potatoes or on top of scrambled eggs
- Add grated cheese and/or butter on to cooked potatoes