Menu Gaining weight with extra milk and dairy products Drink milk as your beverage with meals. It has more calories and protein than juice, tea, water, or soft drinks. If you don't care for regular milk, try chocolate milk, buttermilk, egg nog, hot cocoa or milkshakes. Use milk instead of water to make soups and hot cereals. Make extra-strength milk by mixing 2 heaping tablespoons of dry powdered milk into every cup of milk that you use.
Regular milk has more calories than low-fat milk or sweet acidophillus milk.
It can be used in place of milk for drinking and in any recipe. Nonfat dry milk powder can be added to a lot of foods to give them more protein. You'll never taste it in there. Try adding it to raw ground beef before making it into hamburger patties, meatballs or meatloaf. You can also add it to any casserole, macaroni and cheese, tuna or egg salad, hot or cold cereal, scrambled eggs, mashed potatoes, milkshakes and puddings.