Kids weight gainer/ high calorie diet supplement

This has nothing to do with my OP, thanks though.

To add on, what I'm considering is helping her with a couple booster shakes a week of something like:

Whole milk or half/half
weight gainer
Yogurt or ice cream
banana

Some options like that?

Peanut butter, either Smucker's natural or Crazy Richard's. You can add it to her shakes with whole milk, yogurt, bananas, honey, etc.

Smucker's ingredients: peanuts, salt
Smucker's nutrition facts for 2 tbsp:
190 calories
7 g carbohydrate
100 mg sodium (5% of DRV)
3 g fiber (10% of DRV)
8 g protein

Crazy Richard's ingredients: peanuts
Crazy Richard's nutrition facts for 2 tbsp:
180 calories
5 g carbohydrate
0 mg sodium
3 g fiber (11% of DRV)
8 g protein

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Probably need to see the doctor if headaches are frequent.

Also, gaining and losing fat is genetic and can't be helped as I was told by my sensei, gaucho

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We've talked to her pediatrician and she just said its pretty normal with kids growing that are very active.

I'm not necessarily trying to help her gain weight, I just think the calories will help her feel better.

Peanut butter is solid, I don't think she likes it though or at least not enough to just eat it. She's a kid, so just weird. I mean she'll eat bacon and steak and chicken fingers, but breakfast is really hard. She also gets very tired of the same foods, where as my other daughter eats a nutella sandwhich, apple sauce, cheese sticks, and goldfish for lunch 9/10 days of the week.

I watched a youtube with her this morning on Michael Phelps diet for the olympics to try to show her that eating doesn't mean an athlete will be fat.

She has practice 3-4 days a week so she often will eat dinner beforehand and then another dinner or big snack afterward.

Its mostly breakfast she doesn't eat much. She likes some of the premixed protein drinks. She likes to buy lunch at school and seems to eat that normally.

I'm not talking about massive scoops of weight gainer like some of the 1000 calorie formulas, but I was thinking if I could throw in an extra 200 or so I could make a damn tasty smoothie home made. I just don't want to give her a bunch of crap, just throw in 200-400 extra calories to help her out.

In a similar boat as a parent myself. My 9yo is in competitive gymnastics and trains 4 days a week (13-15 hrs/wk). She is also solid muscle with visible abs.
Sounds like our kids differentiate in that mine will eat the same thing every day if you let her and she definitely does NOT have the same palate as your daughter. She is very much a product of her routines and is thrown off if anything changes. Our goal is to just make sure she eats enough and it is in the 'healthy' to 'not junk' range.

Her breakfast is muffin/waffle and applesauce. Lunch is a PB&J, yogurt, and sometimes a small bag of chips/goldfish. She typically has a snack early afternoon of gram crackers and granola. Then before gym she will have a heavier snack; apple sauce, small protein shake, cheese stick, pepperoni, and some ritz crackers. After gym she eats dinner; this is typically a small portion of whatever we ate that night or some other form of protein (meatpie, meatballs, chicken nuggets, fish sticks, etc).

I gave this detail to show that my kid trains similar to yours with (assuming the accuracy of your post) a less healthy/variety of diet. It may not be calorie related at all.

Have you had her eyes checked or made sure she is getting enough water? Mine was getting similar headaches until she got glasses.

Edit: Wanted to make sure this post isn't meant to be condescending at all. I'm actually jealous that you can get your daughter to eat so healthy. I'm just now able to get my 12yo to eat more vegetables and proteins. The 9yo isn't having any of it yet. She'll go without eating before changing her diet.

Does she like ribs?

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Edit: Wanted to make sure this post isn't meant to be condescending at all. I'm actually jealous that you can get your daughter to eat so healthy. I'm just now able to get my 12yo to eat more vegetables and proteins. The 9yo isn't having any of it yet. She'll go without eating before changing her diet.

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Good stuff no worries. Fwiw my other 2 aren’t nearly as healthy.

She’s eating a plum next to me on the couch as we speak.

If she likes smoothies, then add calorie dense foods to those. Peanut butter, bananas, honey, etc. Throw some oats in there too. I wouldn't worry about supplements just yet. Stick with food. one for breakfast, one for dessert. Make sure she's hydrating enough too. Kids that age typically don't drink enough water except for when they're doing the activity. Make sure things are salted when eating, maybe a liquid IV while at practice.

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9 years old you're supposed to be generally not fat. Headaches can be anything. They might even be migraines that haven't been diagnosed by a doctor. I'd suggest taking her to a doctor to find out more before you potentially engage her in something that can be unhealthy long term.

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Again we've talked to the pediatrician, she doesn't think its anything major. Overall she is very healthy. I'm not trying to make her fatter, simply pointing out that some extra calories won't hurt her.

The obvious is something like peanut butter, and I appreciate the help in that. But she's a kid and there's only so much peanut butter and water I can make her drink. I was trying to think outside of the normal box of things to supplement her diet with.