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#1449 07-30-2003 03:55 AM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 67 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 67 | It takes a lot of water at each meal to get everything down for me. That doesn't stop me from eating many things, but I am often full of water before I'm full of food. Without saliva this kind of "wash it down' eating is normal for everyone. Bite and chew a bit of food, wash it down with a drink of water. Canned fruits are really slippery and wet, like canned, cold peaches. They were the first things that I could eat. Soups became my staple after that. In Santa Fe there was a restaurant that specialized in soups and they made them in bulk for all the high-end eateries around town each day. On any given day they had 20 different soups on their chalkboard, and I was a daily regular my first year out from treatment. The variety kept it interesting. Boring is one of the problems with living off of canned nutritional supplements when you don
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