Christine--thanks for the recipe, but my problem is that nothing I have tried has been palatable because to me it has no taste. Ice cream tastes like chalk, bread tastes like chewed cardboard, etc. It is all so unappetizing that I cannot bring myself to eat it. I will post what follows as a new topic as it goes beyond the original subject of taste returning, but here's more info about my situation:

I love ice cream and milkshakes and could eat/drink those until two weeks ago, but not now. On a whim I even tried childhood favorite, Pixie stix (flavored powdered sugar in a straw) thinking they might be palatable but without any ability to taste sweet flavors they were like sand. I would like to think that the absence of taste would leave things tasting like water, which tastes fine to me and which I have no trouble drinking, but that is not as simple as that unfortunately: I am not left with a neutral taste, but with a distorted, unpleasant, unnatural taste.

I have tried broths, protein powders, about everything I can think of but none of them work for me. On top of it the mucous gives me intermitted nausea and I am experiencing anorexia (not nervosa, just the loss of appetite). I am using anti-nausea meds prn and that does help, as does starting earlier in the day when the mucous is not as much of a problem. It might be easier just to get the nasogastric tube, though I am not sure how that would affect mouth soreness (my palate tends to become sore from radiation and/or burning from gastric acid when I regurgitate), and how a tube would affect my ability to get rid of the mucous. The only thing I can think of is just pushing myself to force down much more Boost than I have been the last week (only about 1200 cal/day, way below the 2500 minimum my treatment team wants me to have and the 3500 that would be ideal). So if anyone has other ideas or hints for getting more Boost in, that would be great! THanks.