Gary, sorry to hear you've been so under the weather[and I will overlook your reference to General Grant, even tho some of my ancestors were under Gen. Lee's command ] Have you searched for the famous "Shake recipes" here. There are variations that will net you lots of calories.We have aslo found a powder product made by Naturade- it's called Weight Gain [adds up to 1500 cals per drink][ ,]www.naturade.com], that has helped to boost John's weight gain efforts. Canned soups are hard to get many calories from, but homeade potato soup with whole milk and a dollop of butter and cream has good calories, pureed spinach soup, pea soup, bean soup- thinned with chicken stock[canned or boxed] good quality baby foods, egg nog, puddings, all have a fair amount of calories. Look at juices in the gro. store. Welches Concord grap juice has 120 cals. per 8 oz. Clamato juice & V-8 juice are good for you if they aren't too spicey. Discovering a variety of things you can tolerate will help keep you interested in eating. Keep going and by the way- the South is still liable to rise again! Amy