Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | It's been a long time, but I remember being able to eat soups, scrambled eggs, cream of wheat cereal made with water and having hot milk, butter and honey on top. Couldn't taste sugar at all. Rare steak and lamb chops cut in the tiniest pieces. Apple sauce, mint jelly. No potatos made any way. Peas, string beans. Turkey with lots of cranberry and gravy and stuffing. Lettuce that has lots of water in it with blue cheese dressing (anything with vinegar burned). Pasta with alfredo sauce. Ice cream, pies. Apple juice, ginger ale or frasca if I left the can open in refrig so bubbles went away. Lots and lots of milk, even fortified. Beer after about 3 weeks.
As Ed says, what tastes good one day may taste like crap the next. It all takes time and perserverence. Basically you need to pick foods that contain a lot of moisture, little to no spice and no citrus. Lots of gravy or sauces. Get out the french cookbook. Took me forever to be able to taste sugar. Also, does she have thrush? Get that taken care if she does because that affects what she can and should eat.
Take care, Eileen
---------------------- Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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