High Calorie Food Help Needed

My husband was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and after a short period in hospital with pneumonia has begun his chemo. His appetite wasn't great before the chemo but has now plumited. We have got some calorific drinks from the doctor on prescription which I hope will help. I picked up a Macmillan recipient book from the hospital for a few ideas. We've gone on to whole milk and I'm adding cream (just a little) to any milky drinks he has. 

He is really struggling to enjoy any of his meals and finds everything very sweet. Any suggestions for getting extra calories into a fussy veg hating pudding struggling  eater would be very much appreciated

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  • My husband had to.put weight on when he started chemo so I made him 3 egg omlettes with cheese and veggie bacon with mushrooms for breakfast then he would have sausage rolls as snacks along with banana and walnut cake the lots of mash with butter and berries with extra thick double cream. He put 1 stone on in no time and then we tried the rainbow diet which is getting as many colours in your foods and this also helped. Best to just keep him snacking on whatever he likes as chemo can alter tastes, don't give up. 

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  • My husband had to.put weight on when he started chemo so I made him 3 egg omlettes with cheese and veggie bacon with mushrooms for breakfast then he would have sausage rolls as snacks along with banana and walnut cake the lots of mash with butter and berries with extra thick double cream. He put 1 stone on in no time and then we tried the rainbow diet which is getting as many colours in your foods and this also helped. Best to just keep him snacking on whatever he likes as chemo can alter tastes, don't give up. 

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