What foods can your taste buds tolerate?

Dbug79

I am just wondering if anyone out there would be willing to share with me the foods you can stand to eat during chemo. I am so sick of eggs and potatoes which seem to be the 2 things that I can put in to my mouth without wanting to just starve myself. I even have to force myself just to drink water. Any advice would help. Thanks.

mrsnjband

I ate a lot of mashed potatoes with cheese or cream cheese, toast. Couldn't stand water, mostly 7-up, milk, ice-tea. NJ

dlb823

Grilled cheese was my favorite meal.  And as far as water... mineral water mixed approx. 3 to 1 with apple juice worked for me.  Towards the end of chemo, I was even putting chocolate syrup in my mineral water (along with a bit of milk), to make sort of an old fashion egg cream soda.  But my taste buds were so finicky --  the bubbles in Perrier seemed to "harsh" to me.  I much preferred one of the other European brands (forget which one), because of its "softer" evervesence.

But hang in there!  You'll get through it!     Deanna

orange1

I couldn't stand anything sweet.  Salty food was much more tolerable.  I ate a lot of Lipton Chicken Soup.

kira1234

carrots, sweet potatoes, ginger ale, as well as chicken soup were my foods of choice.

stef58

It sounds funny but potato salad and hot dogs. I liked the spicier foods when I could eat them. I ate lots of soup after chemo.  Potato chips also settled my stomach, I think it was the salt.I drank water as pop  upset the stomach and do not forget watermelon.  Dianne

Dbug79

Thank you for the ideas ladies, best wishes to all of you!

Annie62

Ramen noodles in chicken broth.

 Baby carrots

Cereal with milk.

applesauce

Nuts (small amounts)

Letlet

i couldn't stand anything sweet too...ok for some reason I was able to eat and crave nachos...

crazy4carrots

I love pineapple and someone here suggested frozen pineapple chunks -- and they were SO good!  Even when my tastebuds went south with taxotere, I could always go into the freezer and pull out a few -- even if I couldn't really taste them, I still remembered the flavour!

EmilyInOntario

Aside from the eggs and mashed potatoes I find rice goes down well and baked chicken or chicken pot pies. Also toast, applesauce, cheese, most vegetables, potato chips, mild sausage..

I couldn't stand water either but made myself drink it with lots of ice. Semi-flat gingerale was okay but apple juice and apple cider went down the best. Milk was okay. I did manage chocolate cake, coconut custard pie and pizza. I even craved Big Macs at one point and KFC which I enjoyed. It seemed to vary from day to day what I felt like eating.