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September 6, 2009 # 11:15 pm # Cooking # 8 Comments
So, if you’ve been reading along with the blog from last years post about the girls you know that we spend a large percentage of our kitchen time doing everything we can to help the girls gain weight. They started so far below the standardized charts that even if you looked at the numbers for a child a year younger they didn’t show up.
The ongoing goal of getting the girls somewhere on the growth charts has lead us to seeking out the highest fat and calorie ways to cook even simple dishes…It’s really hard to balance the goal of weight gain with the overwhelming desire to give them only the most nutritious of foods to make up for the first years of their lives.
It’s all going really well and the girls continue to get stronger and healthier every day. In just a little short of a year now, they have each had close to a 40% weight gain and grown an incredible number of inches (something that doesn’t happen unless your body is getting first enough nutrition for your brain.)
The only down side? I have been loosing the willpower battle of not tasting, and sampling, and sharing, and finishing up, the plates of food that I’m super infusing with extra calories and fat for them. It’s not a pretty scene.
I’ve never been a skinny woman, curvy in all the right places is a nice way to say that I’m a full figured gal. But when you add in the staying at home with the girls, winters in Chicago, and eating a really really silly diet suddenly we are on the verge of needing an intervention.
So, what kind of exercise can the mother of two super energetic, young children get without having to stay up until midnight to cool down from the treadmill she ran after everybody went to bed? Enter Yoga for children.
It’s basically yoga but the poses all have animal names and are simplified. Less of a focus on meditation and more on imagination helps as well. I’m a novice at best, still having balance issues, and it makes me giggle every time I try to pose like a flamingo, but it’s fun, works us all up into a good heart rate, the girls love to be growly lions, and to sit like butterflies, and gives me a chance to do something really positive with them, that they might even continue later in life.
It must be quite the sight to see. Right now we are doing it in our kitchen. I know that makes no sense, but the floor is perfect (not too slippery and we use the squares to keep our spaces far enough to keep tiny feet from ending up in sister’s ears), and both girls like to hold onto any of the 32 drawer pulls as a way of keeping their balance. (we installed this mercantile cabinet when we did our kitchen renovation, it’s from a pharmacy that was as old as our house, and other than the hilarity of having to remember that knives are in the drawer with the pull labeled “surgical plaster” , forks are in “Kidney Pills”, and spoons are in “Bulion Plaster”, having all those drawers instead of cabinets works perfectly for my need to keep a place for everything and everything in it’s place.)
So, for now it’s more practice being growly lions and graceful Flamingos and you know, maybe less of the super calorie packed recipes we make for the girls (see the comments section for a few of our most calorie rich recipes.)
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Ultra Creamy Mashed Potatoes
INGREDIENTS
3 large potatoes, peeled and cubed
1-1/2 ounces cream cheese
2 tablespoons butter
3 ounces sour cream
4 tablespoons heavy cream (50 calories each tblspoon)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Place potatoes in a large pot with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, and cook until potatoes are tender, about 10 minutes. Drain water, and add cream cheese, butter, sour cream and heavy cream. Mash until creamy using a potato masher. Spread evenly in a large baking dish.
Bake for 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until the top is golden brown.
For Thanksgiving, I make a similar recipe for adults with three changes:
1) Not so specific on the measurements – I think I use a little less of the liquids to make this a little more lumpy than creamy, but that’s a personal preference.
2) Leave the peels on
3) When smashing, add 3 heads of roasted garlic (I do those in the oven the night before or the grill the day of to save oven space on Turkey Day).
Oh yeah – #4 is on holidays, DO NOT LOOK UP calorie counts.
MEATLOAF
(makes 12 toddler servings)
INGREDIENTS
1-1/2 pounds ground beef or turkey
1/2 cup nonfat dry milk powder
4 tablespoons wheat germ
1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup chopped onion
2 eggs, plus two egg yolks slightly beaten
1/2 teaspoon salt
dash of pepper
1/4 cup whole milk (or split with heavy cream)
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour
Thoroughly mix all ingredients, except 1/2 of the can of soup and fluid milk. Shape firmly into loaf and place into shallow baking pan. Bake. Blend remaining soup, whole milk, and 2 to 3 tablespoon dripping. Stir, heat, then serve over loaf like a gravy.
Other ways to add calories:
1.Dry milk (powder) – this is a great and sort of cheap way to bulk up foods you might already be feeding your children. (powdered milk contains 33 calories per tablespoon)
Add 1 cup to 1 quart fluid milk for drinking and cooking (we kept a pitcher of “special milk” to add to anything that needed milk)
Add 1/4 cup to 1 cup cooked cereal, such as oatmeal or cream of wheat or our favorite Malt-o-meal
Add 1/2 cup to 1 pound ground meat or turkey when you make hamburgers, meatloaf, chili, etc.
Add 1/4 cup for each 2 cups of flour used when making pancakes, waffles, or bread
2. Heavy Cream – whipping cream
depends on the brand you use, but we’re talking about 50 calories per tablespoon which is major!
We successfully put this into:
hot cereals like malto-o-meal (when cooking and as a spoon full on top to cool it down a bit)
chocolate milk (yes cream added to whole milk)
home made puddings (but if you get carried away it becomes vanilla cream and children make faces)
1/4 cup of heavy cream in regular mashed potatoes makes them deadly for mommy and daddy but oh so tasty
3. For more recipes: feel free to comment below with your request or email me directly (I’m in the process of putting together a small cook book specific to the high calorie diet, that I can send you as a pdf, as soon as it’s done.)
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yoga is a great exercise for foodie! I do Bikram and Power Yoga off and on and I love the results plus I am guilt free to eat all the yummy foods I love.
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