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High-Calorie Cooking Workshop

Help your child gain weight and grow with the PLUS method. You’ll receive high-calorie recipes for meals and snacks, and tools built by a registered dietitian who’s been in your shoes.

Regular Price: $35

$27.99

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High-Calorie Cooking Workshop

Help your child gain weight and grow with the PLUS method. You’ll receive high-calorie recipes for meals and snacks, and tools built by a registered dietitian who’s been in your shoes.

Regular Price: $35

$27.99

Get Instant Access

Is your child slow to grow, underweight,
or struggling to gain weight?

Is your child slow to
grow, underweight, or
struggling to gain weight?

This workshop is for you if your child is:

This workshop is for you
if your child is:

  • Slow to grow or gain weight
  • Struggling with low appetite
  • Taking medications that reduce hunger
  • An athlete that needs energy
  • Needing extra calories for health reasons
Access the Workshop

Everything You’ll Learn for High-Calorie Cooking

How to prepare
highest calorie foods

  • Ingredient choices
  • High-calorie cooking methods
  • Hacks for adding calories

How to improve
diet quality

  • Nutrition planning for meals
  • Picking snacks
  • Foods to limit

How to support
an appetite

  • Considering their relationship with food and their body
  • Enhancing hunger
  • Feeding around medications

How to prepare highest calorie foods

  • Ingredient choices
  • High-calorie cooking methods
  • Hacks for adding calories

How to improve diet quality

  • Nutrition planning for meals
  • Picking snacks
  • Foods to limit

How to support an appetite

  • Considering their relationship with food and their body
  • Enhancing hunger
  • Feeding around medications

The Therapeutically High-Calorie Recipe Collection

  • Triple-Flour Loaded Pancakes
  • Chocolate-Covered Power Granola
  • Hearty Bread Pudding Mini Muffins
  • Fudge Date Balls
  • Banana “Milkshake”
  • Buttermilk Drop Biscuits
  • Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Fudge Date Balls (90 calories each)

Fudge Date Balls
(90 calories each)

Join & Get the Recipes

Time and Sanity Savers

  • Calorie-boosting ingredient list
  • Buying guide for drink supplements and bars
  • PLUS method meal and snack examples
  • Calorie comparison chart for fruit, vegetables, proteins, flours, fats, and more

You deserve a system that makes
high-calorie cooking easier.

Regular Price: $35

$27.99

Get the PLUS Method

You’ll receive:

  • 3 months access on any device
  • Downloads to keep forever
  • Ability to ask questions on the BetterBites® app

You deserve a
system that makes
high-calorie
cooking easier.

Regular Price: $35

$27.99

Get the PLUS Method

You’ll receive:

  • 3 months access on any device
  • Downloads to keep forever
  • Ability to ask questions on the BetterBites® app

700 calorie meal

770 calorie meal

740 calorie meal

Why Your Child’s Weight Matters
More Than You Think

Energy is the foundation of your child’s health and we measure weight to make sure they are getting enough of it. Weight is the most crucial factor in growth spurts. It helps prevent picky eating and helps maintain your child’s ability to think flexibly. It supports your child’s mental and physical health, and enables puberty. 

Kids without enough energy, who are just getting by, can experience conditions that require intensive weight restoration or have life-long effects.

Why Your Child’s
Weight Matters More
Than You Think

Energy is the foundation of your child’s health and we measure weight to make sure they are getting enough of it. Weight is the most crucial factor in growth spurts. It helps prevent picky eating and helps maintain your child’s ability to think flexibly. It supports your child’s mental and physical health, and enables puberty. 

Kids without enough energy, who are just getting by, can experience conditions that require intensive weight restoration or have life-long effects.

Meet Jennifer, Dietitian and Fellow High-Calorie Cooking Parent

“I remember the exact moment the pediatrician told me my son wasn’t gaining weight. I can still feel my stomach sinking.”

I created the PLUS method after 12 years of high-calorie cooking for my own son, who was flagged for poor weight gain at 9 months old. That day began years of brainstorming, recipe experimenting, calorie calculating, and yes, burnout.

There weren’t — and still aren’t — good resources to take much of the load off parents when it comes to high-calorie cooking. This workshop is as personal as it gets. My son eats Triple-Flour Loaded Pancakes (same recipe from the workshop) from the freezer every morning. My mom and I wrote the special recipes for the workshop. My mom went through something similar with my brother, and she helped create these recipes.

You’re in the right place. You’ll be taken good care of. Grandma and I are rooting for you, we know you can do it.

Warmly,
Jennifer (& Grandma)

Meet Jennifer,
Dietitian & Fellow
High-Calorie
Cooking Parent

“I remember the exact moment the pediatrician told me my son wasn’t gaining weight. I can still feel my stomach sinking.”

I created the PLUS method after 12 years of high-calorie cooking for my own son, who was flagged for poor weight gain at 9 months old. That day began years of brainstorming, recipe experimenting, calorie calculating, and yes, burnout.

There weren’t — and still aren’t — good resources to take much of the load off parents when it comes to high-calorie cooking. This workshop is as personal as it gets. My son eats Triple-Flour Loaded Pancakes (same recipe from the workshop) from the freezer every morning. My mom and I wrote the special recipes for the workshop. My mom went through something similar with my brother, and she helped create these recipes.

You’re in the right place. You’ll be taken good care of. Grandma and I are rooting for you, we know you can do it.

Warmly,
Jennifer (& Grandma)

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Frequently Asked Questions

Parents of children who need to gain weight or maintain a healthy weight. This workshop is designed for parents whose children need more calories, whether due to slow growth, low appetite, medical concerns, or an athlete that needs more energy.

While, this workshop does not specifically address picky eating, we do offer other resources to help families address their child’s picky eating. To start, take a few minutes to access your child’s picky eating to help find a clear direction on what to do next with the Pediatric Screener for ARFID and Extreme Picky Eating (PSA-Eat).

Not at all. The PLUS method is designed to work with whatever you’re already making. You’ll learn simple ways to add calories to everyday meals and snacks without overhauling how your family eats.

Yes. The workshop addresses feeding around medications that reduce hunger, including strategies for timing meals, choosing the highest-calorie options when appetite is at its lowest, and making meals count when your window is small.

Your purchase includes 3 months of access to all lessons, resources, and Q&A via the BetterBites app. All downloadable resources are yours to keep permanently. You can renew your participation quarterly whenever you’re ready.

The PLUS method is a four-part system for adding calories to whatever your family already eats. Each letter stands for a specific action: boosting calories through ingredient swaps, cooking techniques, additions you stir in or drizzle on, and portion strategies that don’t require pressure at the table. Instead of hunting for new recipes every night, you apply the method to meals your child already accepts — the pasta on the stove, the oatmeal they’ll actually eat. Every lesson in the workshop teaches you how to use it, and the downloadable resources give you ready-made lists so you can start the same day you enroll.

Yes. Jennifer Anderson, MSPH, RDN, is a registered dietitian nutritionist, founder of Kids Eat in Color, and CEO of BetterBites. She developed this workshop from 12+ years of high-calorie cooking for her own son, who was flagged for poor weight gain at 9 months old.

Everything you need to add more calories to
your child’s food, starting today.

Start High-Calorie Cooking

Everything you need to add more calories to your child’s food, starting today.

Start High-Calorie Cooking