 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Yep, Jim is right, pancakes work with alot of butter and very little syrup. Canned peaches, soups, yogurt, pudding, mac and cheese, cherios soaked in milk, oatmeal, soft scrambled eggs with cheese, and french toast lightly cooked are all easy foods. The Carnation instant breakfast or VHC will help balance the diet. I drank alot of Yoohoos during treatment, it was soothing to my mouth and throat and thin like water so easy to swallow. Milkshakes are high calorie too, I make chocolate peanut butter milkshakes and throw in a scoop of the carnation instant breakfast. If done right the milkshake is about 3000 calories.
Even with the PEG tube I lost 65 pounds. You are correct that it is a lifesaver for alot of us. Eating isnt easy during and after tx. Best of luck.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
