Tips for your journey

Instincts are handy servants. The foods instinctively sought to relieve the varying degrees of illness associated with chemo, depending on severity, are ice cream, fruited smoothies, cream soups, and, in severe cases, baby food. All of these are handy. Nevertheless, we all crave flavor diversity, even when feeling poorly, and the constant challenge is to create an imaginative, diverse, calorie-enriched diet to advance wellness. That is why we have to go shopping!

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• Avoid an empty stomach, eating small amounts often and slowly, especially before bedtime.
• Slowly sip room temperature water, almost every waking moment. Ice chips or "health sickles" (see inside), in extreme cases.
• Try "extreme toast" (see inside), crackers and ginger snaps.
• Try yogurt with live acidophilus, foods high in zinc, pumpkin seeds, squash seeds, oysters, pot roast, dark turkey meat and, oddly enough shitake mushrooms!
• Avoid foods with strong odors, high temperatures and spices.
• Try switching to plastic forks to avoid "metallic" taste.
• A REDUCED IMMUNE SYSTEM REQUIRES SERIOUS, EXTRA CARE WITH FOOD EXPIRATION DATES, LEFTOVERS AND GENERAL KITCHEN SANITATION!