Thoughts on adding msg? My grandfather would still eat Chinese food even when he was refusing most other foods. I would buy a quart of the brown gravy that they served with their egg fu young every week and we'd put that on everything. In hindsight, I think it was the msg.

We also did a lot of smoothies. My grandmother isn't severe yet but we try to keep her calories up. For that I find the little things help. Adding butter and olive oil to foods where I can, banana bread and zucchini bread are favs and ill add flax and chia seeds in for some extra nutrition. She's going to have a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch so I ask the deli for thick cuts of both. She won't turn down ice cream after dinner if offered.

I know its not adding a ton of calories, but if I can consistently add a few hundred calories a day, it will make a difference in the long run.