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Below we have taken some everyday foods and put them into sample menus to show how you can boost your protein and energy intake without having to eat more food.
These are only suggestions, but we hope they will give you some ideas for ways you can adapt the meals you usually eat.
Our section on recipes| contains other suggestions for appetising meals.
Between meals you can keep up your energy intake with snacks and drinks such as nuts, seeds, cheese, biscuits, crackers, Ovaltine or milkshakes. Fortified milk or supplements such as Fortisip Bottle Neutral or Fresubin Neutral can be added to tea and coffee, or bedtime drinks such as Horlicks, Ovaltine or drinking chocolate. Energy supplements can also be added to hot drinks.
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