Is there any food or drink that tastes ok once you ge that metallic taste from your chemo. I have tried sweet, sour, spicy, etc and everything might taste good for 5 min and then back to the metallic taste
Am enjoying reading all the meal suggestions - as long as someone else is doing the cooking ha ha.
Hubby suffered with metallic taste problems during chemo and could only stomach (sorry) coffee if made with full cream milk. Found anything he did not like before much more palatable for some bizarre reason though his consultant and dietician had both pre-warned him that this could be the case. Salted peanuts, cashews and doughnuts were among some favourites and home-made soups were better than canned variety. Trial and error very much the key to finding what worked. He also found that fish and chips were fine. Jules
I'd agree with Jules on the home made soup. I had a background salty taste and a rotten meat taste. This put me off eating meat. Butternut squash and coconut milk soup was good and packed with calories. Cucumbers had a fresh taste and boiled fresh beetroot was quite palatable. In the end I couldnt eat much at all, the radiotherapy made my throat so sore. So I slopped down custard, rice pudding, cottage pie, fish pie, and those horrid thick supplements often taking an hour to eat a side plates quantity with sips of water between mouthfuls. In the end I lost all sense of taste and relied on nice smelling food to whet the appetite. Alcohol stung my throat so I abandoned beer, when I could drink it again, it tasted like fizzy water so I didnt bother. Hot spicy food was out too as it burned. However after a month taste started to return but everything tasted not as expected, eight months on I can eat most anything and get a good flavour from food.
I'd agree with Jules on the home made soup. I had a background salty taste and a rotten meat taste. This put me off eating meat. Butternut squash and coconut milk soup was good and packed with calories. Cucumbers had a fresh taste and boiled fresh beetroot was quite palatable. In the end I couldnt eat much at all, the radiotherapy made my throat so sore. So I slopped down custard, rice pudding, cottage pie, fish pie, and those horrid thick supplements often taking an hour to eat a side plates quantity with sips of water between mouthfuls. In the end I lost all sense of taste and relied on nice smelling food to whet the appetite. Alcohol stung my throat so I abandoned beer, when I could drink it again, it tasted like fizzy water so I didnt bother. Hot spicy food was out too as it burned. However after a month taste started to return but everything tasted not as expected, eight months on I can eat most anything and get a good flavour from food.
