When Jim was going through his radiation for squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue, I tried everything i could think of to get him to eat. Our oncologist told us that Carnation Instant Breakfast has the same nutrients that Ensure has, and tastes better, (I know he couldnt taste a lot but it helped to KNOW it tasted better). I put it in the blender with frozen fruit and ice cream to make a cool thick shake. He drank a lot of them. We went ot WalMart almost every night and walked around and looked at food, I bought him anything and everything he wanted. We took it home and opened it up, he tried everything. We threw a lot of stuff away, but even if only a sip or two of each thing got down it was considered a victory. He refused to have a peg, so near the end of treatment he was in a lot of pain. He tells people that chicken noodle soup saved him, because whenever I threatened to take him to the emergency room because he was not eating he drank the chicken broth of chicken noodle soup.