Getting cals in when you are short on them

I have noticed that a lot of mfp members seem to be having trouble when they are getting their regular cals in then workout and have a huge number to eat post workout, I am posting this little tidibit to help those add in those cals quickly, healthy, and easier than you may think. So how do I do it? Well the simple answer is planning, it takes some planning ahead and yes even on some days I do manage to find myself in this sort of a dilemma, but there are easy healthy ways to make it up and here is how I do it.

1) Obviously plan ahead for workout days and eat more cals with each meal, not a ton more but say around 20% of so, even add in some extra fruit to help. One of my favorite go to foods are almonds, a handful can = 350 - 450 cals. You can not go wrong with adding these into the diet, they are a great cal make up food. Of course there is also oatmeal, cal dense, healthy food.
2) Smoothies, even if you are full most of us can drink more and these help a lot. I love my protein smoothies as they are convenient but not necessary you can eat the protein through meats and what not but I like them for the simple convenience. For example post workout last night I had a huge number of cals left over and rather than head for junk I made this one:
1 cup frozen blueberries
1/2 med banana
1.25 cups almond breeze almond milk original low sugar
1 tbsp flax seed
0.5 tsp cinnamon
2 scoops protein powder
Total cals 554, this made up a load of cals I needed to meet my goal. It was easy to drink and delicious. This was to make up for poor planning. So despite my setup I still managed to get that in there and so can you, it just takes some creativity and finding which foods/drinks you like that are calorically dense, but healthy to make up the deficit. I hope this helps you out with your needs to fill those cals with some good nutrition.