Light Meals and Snacks

To support weight gain or weight maintenance for people who are aiming to stop or reduce their use of food supplements.

• Be able to choose individual or combinations of foods which give an equivalent amount of protein and energy to a prescribed supplement.
• Know how to combine foods/liquids to give an equivalent amount of protein and energy to a prescribed supplement.
• Know where to get further help and advice.

Evidence Base:

• Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (COMA). (1991) Dietary Reference Values for Food Energy and Nutrients for the United Kingdom (Report on Health and Social Subjects No 41). London: The Stationery Office.
• Gibbs Michelle, Baldwin Christine and Weekes Christine Elizabeth. (2012) Supportive interventions for enhancing dietary intake in malnourished or nutritionally at-risk adults. http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD009840/frame.html
• Brotherton A, Simmonds N, Stroud M. Malnutrition Matters: Meeting Quality Standards in Nutritional Care. A report on behalf of the BAPEN Quality Group A report on behalf of the BAPEN Quality Group 2010.
• A. C. Milne, J. Potter, A. Vivanti and A. Avenell. (2009) Protein and energy supplementation in elderly people at risk from malnutrition. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. (2) 003288.
• Stratton R. BAPEN Symposium 4 on ‘Challenges of enteral feeding from the acute to the community setting’ Should food or supplements be used in the community for the treatment of disease-related malnutrition? Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (2005), 64, 325–333.
• Nice (2006) Nutrition Support in Adults.
• SACN (2008) Nutritional well being of the British Population.
• SACN (2011) Dietary Reference Values for Energy.
• Stratton, C.,et al.,(1999) A critical, systematic analysis of the use of oral nutritional supplements in the community Clin Nut 18 (supp 2):29-84
• Stratton, R., Greene, C., et al (2003) Disease Related Malnutrition: An evidence-based approach to treatment. CABI Publishing
• C E Weekes, P W Emery, M Elia. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Dietary counselling and food fortification in stable COPD: a randomised trial Thorax (2009).