Dave

xHi Netty,

You've already received lots of good advice, I found that home made thick shakes stayed down the easiest smooth peanut butter, banana, Nutella and whole milk in whatever combination tasted palatable. My taste buds were completely messed up, so we had to experiment. I had lots of fruit juice and liquidised fruit - strawberries and cream make a good smoothie. Jelly and ice cream (Cornish clotted cream) tended to stay down too.

At times I felt I was being force fed soup but it worked and I managed to keep my BMI in the normal range. 

Even at the worst stage of my chemo, I forced myself to walk the dog - wrapped up like an Eskimo as it was mid-Winter. Moving around helped ease digestion - belching isn't a problem for me - far better than suffering from trapped wind! Little and often and not lying or sitting for too long afterwards helped minimise that.

Good luck!

Thanks again for lots of interesting suggestions.  Husband seems to be regaining his appetite a little. Trifle and extra jelly hit the mark this evening as well as a small home made cottage pie with lots of butter in the mash and a chunk of cheese on top for good measure and for those in between meals times a bowl of sweeties sits on his coffee table. Hopefully his weight will now stabilise and Hopefully increase a little. Mind you... I'm not counting my chickens. This evening he was complaining that swallowing was a bit uncomfortable. .. a side effect of the RT which he finished on friday. If it's not one think it's another eh...

:(

Netty

Thanks again for lots of interesting suggestions.  Husband seems to be regaining his appetite a little. Trifle and extra jelly hit the mark this evening as well as a small home made cottage pie with lots of butter in the mash and a chunk of cheese on top for good measure and for those in between meals times a bowl of sweeties sits on his coffee table. Hopefully his weight will now stabilise and Hopefully increase a little. Mind you... I'm not counting my chickens. This evening he was complaining that swallowing was a bit uncomfortable. .. a side effect of the RT which he finished on friday. If it's not one think it's another eh...

:(

Netty