What foods can your taste buds tolerate?

Dbug79
Dbug79 Member Posts: 14
edited June 2014 in Recipe Swap for Healthy Living

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.

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  • mrsnjband
    mrsnjband Member Posts: 1,409
    edited March 2011

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

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  • dlb823
    dlb823 Member Posts: 9,430
    edited March 2011

    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

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  • orange1
    orange1 Member Posts: 930
    edited March 2011

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

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  • kira1234
    kira1234 Member Posts: 3,091
    edited March 2011

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

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  • stef58
    stef58 Member Posts: 288
    edited March 2011

    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

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  • Dbug79
    Dbug79 Member Posts: 14
    edited March 2011

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

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  • Annie62
    Annie62 Member Posts: 1,081
    edited March 2011

    Ramen noodles in chicken broth.

     Baby carrots

    Cereal with milk.

    applesauce

    Nuts (small amounts)

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  • Letlet
    Letlet Member Posts: 1,053
    edited March 2011

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

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited March 2011

    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!

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  • EmilyInOntario
    EmilyInOntario Member Posts: 626
    edited March 2011

    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.

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