Egg Drop Soup

GraceLibby
GraceLibby Member Posts: 88
edited March 2014 in Head and Neck Cancer #1
I mentioned to my nurse about the typical problem we all have with mucus. She suggested eating a bowl of egg drop soup. You get protein, fluids, etc.. and it helps to thin out the mucus. Long story short, I tried it and it works! It kept my mucus thin enough to be tolerable for a few hours, which was a nice respite from swish and spit baking soda and salt.

She also suggested papaya nectar, which I haven't tried yet, but thought I would mention as well.

9 more days to go!

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  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #2
    Egg Drop Soup
    Finally something that taste good and works! I am all for it
  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #3
    Hondo said:

    Egg Drop Soup
    Finally something that taste good and works! I am all for it

    Thanks for sharing. That's great.
    So glad that you can eat and that you found something that is helpful.
  • hawk711
    hawk711 Member Posts: 566
    #4
    sweetblood22 said:

    Thanks for sharing. That's great.
    So glad that you can eat and that you found something that is helpful.

    Dinner
    Egg Drop soup for dinner it is !!!! I'll try it too.......keep passing on good ideas that work. all the best Steve
  • meinken
    meinken Member Posts: 38
    #5
    Egg Drop Soup was the first
    Egg Drop Soup was the first thing I ate without using my Peg Tube after radiation. For some reason it tasted like bacon. Not that that's a bad thing.
  • Pam M
    Pam M Member Posts: 2,196
    #6
    meinken said:

    Egg Drop Soup was the first
    Egg Drop Soup was the first thing I ate without using my Peg Tube after radiation. For some reason it tasted like bacon. Not that that's a bad thing.

    Egg Drop Soup Fan
    I never liked egg drop soup (greasy) before, but gave it another try one day when I was out with sore mouth and hungry. YUM! Funny thing is, I've tried it at a few places now, and my favorite is still the little, generic mall food court soup I had when I was in treatment.
  • delnative
    delnative Member Posts: 450 Member
    #7
    Pam M said:

    Egg Drop Soup Fan
    I never liked egg drop soup (greasy) before, but gave it another try one day when I was out with sore mouth and hungry. YUM! Funny thing is, I've tried it at a few places now, and my favorite is still the little, generic mall food court soup I had when I was in treatment.

    Haven't had it in years
    I always liked egg drop soup, and I don't know why I didn't think of it as I was coming out of the whole treatment ordeal. I did eat a fair amount of chicken soup, though.
    In my neck of the woods we eat a lot of chicken and dumplings. No, they're not the Pennsylvania Dutch dumplings, big round globs of starch that I don't really care for. (Sorry, Keystone Staters.)
    'Round here we eat slippery dumplings, which are sort of like very wide noodles. Anyway, it's one of the foods I grew up on and a great comfort food for me. I got my wife to make me some when I was just starting to swallow solid food again, and they slid down really well. It was a great thrill to have them -- and I haven't lost my taste for them.

    --Jim in Delaware
  • KristynRuth86
    KristynRuth86 Member Posts: 140
    #8
    hawk711 said:

    Dinner
    Egg Drop soup for dinner it is !!!! I'll try it too.......keep passing on good ideas that work. all the best Steve

    Eureka!
    I remembered seeing this post towards the end of my treatment and 3 days ago I tried the soup. It's all I've eaten for these 3 days lol! It's all I can tolerate without gagging! Thank you SO much for sharing! It's so awesome to be eating something!
  • forme
    forme Member Posts: 1,161 Member
    #9
    KristynRuth86 said:

    Eureka!
    I remembered seeing this post towards the end of my treatment and 3 days ago I tried the soup. It's all I've eaten for these 3 days lol! It's all I can tolerate without gagging! Thank you SO much for sharing! It's so awesome to be eating something!

    Wonderful
    Hi Kristyn Ruth,
    So glad to hear that you are eating something. All the best
    Lisha
  • miccmill
    miccmill Member Posts: 248
    #10
    delnative said:

    Haven't had it in years
    I always liked egg drop soup, and I don't know why I didn't think of it as I was coming out of the whole treatment ordeal. I did eat a fair amount of chicken soup, though.
    In my neck of the woods we eat a lot of chicken and dumplings. No, they're not the Pennsylvania Dutch dumplings, big round globs of starch that I don't really care for. (Sorry, Keystone Staters.)
    'Round here we eat slippery dumplings, which are sort of like very wide noodles. Anyway, it's one of the foods I grew up on and a great comfort food for me. I got my wife to make me some when I was just starting to swallow solid food again, and they slid down really well. It was a great thrill to have them -- and I haven't lost my taste for them.

    --Jim in Delaware

    Good soup
    Egg Drop Soup was the first thing Glenn asked me to get for him after his treatment was over. It went down smooth and led to eating other foods.

    I guess you could say Egg Drop Soup is a "gateway" food.
  • rozaroo
    rozaroo Member Posts: 665
    #11
    miccmill said:

    Good soup
    Egg Drop Soup was the first thing Glenn asked me to get for him after his treatment was over. It went down smooth and led to eating other foods.

    I guess you could say Egg Drop Soup is a "gateway" food.

    Soup!
    A beaten egg sure went along way! My mom would make me homemade stock when I was recovering
    & I would add a beaten egg when heating it up. Easy to go down & kept me going when nothing else worked!
  • ekdennie
    ekdennie Member Posts: 238 Member
    #12
    yum!
    I know what I will be eating tomorrow! thanks for the idea!
  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #13
    ekdennie said:

    yum!
    I know what I will be eating tomorrow! thanks for the idea!

    I had no clue what to make for dinner.
    I think I just decided to give egg drop soup a try. Off to google up a recipe. :)
  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #14
    sweetblood22 said:

    I had no clue what to make for dinner.
    I think I just decided to give egg drop soup a try. Off to google up a recipe. :)

    Well....
    Mine came out more like scrambled egg soup. Lol. I cooked some pastina separate and put that in at the end. Hey, it tastes ok. As much as I can taste. Doesn't burn my tongue and I can swallow it. Works for me. :) kinda good at the end of a chilly gloomy day. Feels so late and it's only 6:15. Booo!
  • Em11
    Em11 Member Posts: 15 Member
    #15
    My husband's been eating
    My husband's been eating that too! He said it really works and makes him feel better.. Sounds gross to me, but if it makes him feel better and makes him want to eat, heck, I'd cook anything for him.
  • chark
    chark Member Posts: 14
    #16
    Em11 said:

    My husband's been eating
    My husband's been eating that too! He said it really works and makes him feel better.. Sounds gross to me, but if it makes him feel better and makes him want to eat, heck, I'd cook anything for him.

    menu for tomorrow
    I know what's on the menu for tomorrow. Anything to try to control this mucus thickening.

    Thank you for the thought and if you come up with anything else I would love to hear about it.

    Christy
  • sportsman
    sportsman Member Posts: 97
    #17
    egg drop soup
    I had never eaten egg drop soup before. My wife brought home a bowl from a Chinese restaurant and though I was skeptical about eating it, I gave it a try. This stuff was great. I could easily swallow it (I have severe swallowing problems) and the taste was very good. This is probably one of the things that has tasted the best since my treatment. My wife has never made this before but is a excellent cook. Does anyone have a good recipe for it? I keep getting wonderful advice from this web site. It has been a blessing to me as many things I have read on here has helped my tremendously both mentally and physically and never to leave out spirtually. I encourage everyone that has or is suffering from this horrible cancer to keep up the fight and put their trust in God. God Bless you all
  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #18
    sportsman said:

    egg drop soup
    I had never eaten egg drop soup before. My wife brought home a bowl from a Chinese restaurant and though I was skeptical about eating it, I gave it a try. This stuff was great. I could easily swallow it (I have severe swallowing problems) and the taste was very good. This is probably one of the things that has tasted the best since my treatment. My wife has never made this before but is a excellent cook. Does anyone have a good recipe for it? I keep getting wonderful advice from this web site. It has been a blessing to me as many things I have read on here has helped my tremendously both mentally and physically and never to leave out spirtually. I encourage everyone that has or is suffering from this horrible cancer to keep up the fight and put their trust in God. God Bless you all

    I tried it and it didn't
    I tried it and it didn't come out right. I got my recipes off of the internet off allrecipes. My father has actually made really good egg drop soup. I will try and get the recipe from him next time I go up.

    I got some a couple weeks ago from our closest chinese place and although I could swallow it okay, it was too salty for me.

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