MrsW,
I am sorry it took a while to get back to you, the first Mass Gainer I tried is made by "Body Fortress" Super Advanced Mass Gainer 40g protein, 1000+ calories (2.25 lbs). It is a chocolate powder, I use 3 scoops with high protein chocolate almond milk in a blender. Comes out like 1/2 shake and 1/2 chocolate milk, but it is sort of expensive. Now I am using Musclepharm Combat XL Mass Gainer, 1270 calories, 50g protein, 252g of carbs.(Green and Black bag) I buy a 12 lb bag at a good price on Amazon which is nice as they bring it to your door(ship it). I mix it the same way. I use the small scoop from the Body Fortress Mass Gainer, it makes about 24 oz and I drink it all at once.
During the rad treatments food had to be room temp and most of it was repulsive to me, I had all my teeth extracted and food put in the blender just didn't taste or feel right. I also took hydracodone for the mouth pain. No peg tube.
If I remember right it took about 3 to 4 weeks to get the taste of sugar back and then the regular tastes came back as well, about that time I finally started to get a appetite back.
Now I'm into my 11th out of 35 rad treatments on my epiglottis and false vocal chords, my throat is starting to hurt especially when I swallow, I have hydracodone for the pain but it doesn't seem to be working too good, I also have some of that Mary's Magic plus Lido but I have to swallow it to get down my throat to numb it, probably not a good idea, it says on the bottle to spit it out. I was thinking if getting some floriseptic sore throat spray and trying that but I don't think you are supposed to swallow that either. I haven't tried gargling with salt and baking soda water yet, wonder if it will work.
Murphy...