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HIGH ENERGY RECIPES
INTRODUCTION
This information leaflet offers recipes to boost your calorie intake using food and nutritional
drinks. Food should always be used as the first line of treatment for patients at risk for
malnutrition. Enriching your diet can help you to avoid losing weight or regain any weight
that you may have lost
NUTRITIONAL DRINKS
These drinks (non-prescription) can be bought in chemists and some supermarkets. They
come in powdered form and should be made up as directed on the packet. Examples
include:
Build Up: vanilla, banana, strawberry, chocolate or natural
Build Up Soup: chicken, potato & leek, tomato and vegetable
Complan: original, strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, banana and with oats
Complan soup: chicken, vegetable
HIGH ENERGY DRINKS
Enriched milk
540kcal; 40g protein
2-4 tablespoons semi skimmed milk powder
1 pint (600ml) full cream (blue cap) milk
Mix together. Replace the use of ordinary milk/water to make up coffee, packet soups,
sauces, jelly, milk pudding, porridge and other breakfast cereals.
Enriched milkshake (serves 1)
255kcal; 14g protein
1/3 pint (200ml) enriched milk
2-3 tsp milkshake powder/syrup
Mix ingredients together. Serve chilled. Cream or ice cream is optional.
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Yoghurt drink (serves 1)
306kcal; 17g protein
1/3 pint (200ml) enriched milk
1 tbsp clear sugar/honey
1 pot (125g) sweetened full fat fruit yoghurt
Mix all ingredients together. Chill before serving
Apricot lemon crush (serves 1) 303kcal; 9g protein
1 can (425 g) apricot halves in natural fruit juice
1 cup (250ml) natural yoghurt
juice of 1 lemon
1 tablespoon sugar/honey
2 tablespoons wheatgerm (optional)
crushed ice
Blend all ingredients together.
Banana cream (serves 1)
485kcal; 17g protein
1/3 pint (200ml) enriched milk
1 small ripe banana
1 scoop ice cream
1 tsp sugar/honey
Peel and mash the banana. Blend with all the other ingredients. Serve chilled.
Fruit mix (serves 1)
449kcal; 6g protein
1 cup (250ml) orange juice (or other fruit juice combination)
1 banana
1 scoop ice cream and/or cream
1 dessertspoon sugar/honey
crushed ice
Blend all ingredients together.
Fruit shake (serves 1)
396kcal; 10g protein
1/2 cup (125ml) full cream milk
1 tablespoon cream
1 scoop ice cream
small serving stewed or fresh fruit
1 tablespoon semi skimmed milk powder
1 dessertspoon sugar/honey
crushed ice
Blend all ingredients together.
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Honey malt (serves 1)
437kcal; 16g protein
1/3 pint (200ml) enriched milk
1 tbsp clear honey
1 scoop ice cream
1 heaped tsp malted drink powder (e.g. Horlicks)
Mix all the ingredients together. Serve chilled.
Cinnamon Spice (serves 1)
227kcal; 13g protein
1/3 pint (200ml) enriched milk
1 tbsp golden syrup
Pinch mixed spice
Pinch cinnamon
Heat the milk. Stir in all the other ingredients. Serve hot.
Chocolate mallow (serves 1)
296kcal; 14g protein
1/3 pint (200ml) enriched milk
1 tbsp drinking chocolate
2 tsp sugar/honey
4 marshmallows
1 tbsp (15ml) rum (if permitted by GP)
Blend together the drinking chocolate and sugar/honey with a little milk. Heat the
remaining milk with 2 marshmallows. Add to chocolate with rum, if using. Place the
remaining marshmallows on top.
Coffee mocha (serves 1)
280kcal; 10g protein
1 sachet (57g) chocolate Complan
1/3 pint (200ml) boiling water
Full cream milk to taste
1-2 tsp coffee granules
Mix the sachet of Complan with the water. Add 1-2 tsp instant coffee and mix well.
Sweeten to taste and top up with milk.
Maxi nightcap (serves 1)
293kcal; 12g protein
1/3 pint (200ml) full cream milk
1 tbsp natural Complan/Build Up
1 tbsp sugar/honey
2 tbsp Ovaltine/Horlicks or drinking chocolate
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Mix Complan/Build Up with sugar/honey and a little cold milk. Add flavouring and remaining
hot milk. Top with a marshmallow float or chocolate flake and cream
BREAKFAST
Complan & Oats (serves 1)
323kcal; 13g protein
1 sachet (57g) Complan & Oats
4fl oz (125ml) full cream milk
Empty the sachet of Complan & Oats into a bowl.
sugar/honey to sweeten if desired.
High energy cereal
Heat the milk and stir in.
Add
361kcal; 23g protein
3 tablespoons instant breakfast cereal or 1 crushed Weetabix
½ cup (125ml) full cream milk
3 tablespoons natural Complan/Build Up
Mix Complan/Build Up with cereal. Add hot milk and stir well. Add sugar/honey or salt
to taste.
Super shake (serves 4) 311kcal; 16g protein for 1 serving
2 large ripe bananas
14fl oz (400ml) cold full cream milk
8 tbsp Build Up/Complan original
2 x 125g thick and creamy yoghurts e.g. strawberry, blackcurrant
2 tbsp sugar/honey
Peel the bananas and blend in a food processor until smooth. Add remaining ingredients
and continue to blend until smooth. Serve chilled.
Fruity oatmeal breakfast bowl (serves 4)
381kcal; 17g protein for 1 serving
4 sachets (152g) Build Up/Complan instant drink, strawberry flavour
1 ¼ pint (700ml) full cream milk
4oz (100g) quick-cook oats
2oz (50g) ready-to-eat dried apricots, chopped
2 large bananas, chopped
2 tbsp sugar/honey
4 tbsp thick and creamy yoghurt
Blend the Build Up instant drink with the milk and transfer to a large pan. Stir in the oats
and bring to a boil. Cook for 1 minute on a medium setting, stirring continuously, and
then add the apricots. Remove from the heat, add the bananas and sugar/honey and
mix well. Serve topped with a spoon of yoghurt.
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DESSERTS
Milk jelly (serves 2-4)
493kcal; 27g protein for 2 servings
Preparation time: 10min
Chilling time: 30min
1 packet (10g) flavoured jelly
1 sachet (38g) Build Up instant drink
16fl oz (450ml) full cream milk
Dissolve the jelly in 150ml (¼ pt) boiling water and leave to cool completely, but not set.
Make up the Build Up instant drink according to pack instructions and add to the cooled
jelly. Top up to 600ml (1 pt) with milk and whisk together. Pour into serving dishes and
leave to set.
Black forest delight (serves 1)
186kcal; 11g protein
1 sachet (57g) chocolate Complan
3 ½ fl oz (100ml) water
1 pot (125g) black cherry yoghurt
Mix the sachet of Complan with the water. Add the yoghurt and mix well.
Berry ice drink (serves 2)
414kcal; 30g protein for 2 servings
1 sachet (38g) Build Up instant drink, strawberry flavour
1/3 pint (200ml) full cream milk
1 tin (290g) summer fruits in light syrup
2 tbsp natural yoghurt
Blend the Build Up instant drink and remaining ingredients in a food processor until smooth.
Pour into a tall glass and serve immediately.
Strawberries & cream (serves1) 141kcal; 7g protein
1 sachet (57g) strawberry Complan
3 ½ fl oz (100ml) water
3 tbsp (45ml) cream
Mix the sachet of Complan with the water. Add single cream and stir.
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