- Offer most of the food when the person is most hungry.
- Encourage the person to eat food with the fingers if it increases intake.
- Add non-fat powdered milk to any food with liquid in it, such as desserts, soups, gravy, and cereal.
- Add butter, whipped cream, or sour cream to foods.
- Add cottage cheese or ricotta cheese to casseroles, scrambled eggs, and desserts.
- Grate hard cheeses on bread, meats, vegetables, eggs, and casseroles.
- Use instant breakfast powder in milk drinks and desserts.
- Add nuts, seeds, and wheat germ to breads, cereal, casseroles, and desserts.
- Add beaten eggs to mashed potatoes, sauces, vegetable purees, and cooked puddings.
- Add honey, jam, or sugar to bread, milk drinks, fruit, and yogurt desserts.
- Add mayonnaise to salads and sandwiches.
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Excerpted from The Comfort of Home: A Complete Guide for CaregiversTM
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My mother has been a life-long anorexic. She has lived in my home for 8 years. She has recently had a stroke and is very weak. She refuses most of the meals I prepare for her - all of her favorites - and I am at my wit's end trying to get her to eat! She now weighs about 78 lbs. I noticed she ate when she was at the rehab unit, food I could never get her to eat at home. I am ready to give up, the stress is too much for me! I have decided to stop begging her to eat. She can starve herself to death if that is what she wants. I have always had an issue with food myself, I am overweight and am always denying myself the fattening food I urge my mother to eat. I have spent a lifetime hearing my parents tell me not to "eat this or that" and I can't help but feel that god is playing a cruel joke on me!