Metalic taste has arrived, what is good????????

me
Everyone is different, but I for some reason could only taste McDonalds food.... Weird right??? Anyway I ate a lot of McDonalds food because I just wanted to be able to taste something.

not much
I lost 40 pounds during chemo because everything tasted awful and I couldn't eat. I ate lots of mashed potatoes and plain pasta. Linda

sea60 said:

Hi Nancy!
I found that when I ate pinto beans, I could somewhat taste what they should taste like. And I agree with the spicy food.

What was the most difficult was not being able to taste chocolate...I LOVE chocolate.

Thank God taste buds come back once the Chemo ends.

Hugs,

Sylvia

I have the same problem
Hi Nancy,

I have problems with my food not tasting the same and I have read some where on the internet to use plastic silverware and it really help. So now when I go out to a resturant I ask for plastic silverware and if they don't have any I have some in my compartment in my car. Hey, lol, if I am going to pay for a meal I want to be able to taste it without the metal taste.

Deb

Book's suggestions
Hi - Sorry to hear about this side effect as I know how important it is to eat during treatments. But, its not over! I bought this great book "Cancer-fighting Kitchen" where they make suggestions for ALL side effects! they even tell you what foods are good to eat during side effects and why they are good for you (some are even good for colon). It's a great book.

OK, for this side effect they recommend you add the following things to increase your taste level: Lemon, Organic Maple syrup, Sea Salt, Extra virgin Olive Oil. It works! Apparently these do something to bring out the flavors. You don't add all these at once of course, you pick and choose according to your taste.

Also, everyone is different with foods so you may want to try many different things until you can finally taste them. Like for me it was mango. So I had them often.

Good luck! The bad taste goes away.

LoveBabyJesus said:

Book's suggestions
Hi - Sorry to hear about this side effect as I know how important it is to eat during treatments. But, its not over! I bought this great book "Cancer-fighting Kitchen" where they make suggestions for ALL side effects! they even tell you what foods are good to eat during side effects and why they are good for you (some are even good for colon). It's a great book.

OK, for this side effect they recommend you add the following things to increase your taste level: Lemon, Organic Maple syrup, Sea Salt, Extra virgin Olive Oil. It works! Apparently these do something to bring out the flavors. You don't add all these at once of course, you pick and choose according to your taste.

Also, everyone is different with foods so you may want to try many different things until you can finally taste them. Like for me it was mango. So I had them often.

Good luck! The bad taste goes away.

Nancy--I know what you're saying
because I truly love my food. The bad taste was awful. I'm afraid for me--it was trial and error all the way. Something that might look and smell delicious, tasted horrible. Some of my very favorites were inedible for me. It really made me mad!

I did the best on very bland things--white bread and peanut butter (which I never normally eat), plain scrambled eggs, Cheerios with skim milk. Very boring diet, but it's very temporary. I also had problems with food smells--especially food that was cooking. I remember one night, my saint of a husband was preparing something for his dinner on the stove top and the smell grossed me out so bad--he had to run outside with the frying pan!

Hope you find some things that work for you.

Hugs, Renee

Bio--plastic utensils
Bio--plastic utensils helps--I discovered that nothing tasted good. The texture of the food also made a difference to me. I ate things like scrambled eggs, half a peanut butter sandwich. They said to avoid hot foods and spicy foods.

EllenaMaria said:

I finally got my menu down
I finally got my menu down for the week following each chemo dose. Corn with salt, potatoes with sour creme, yogurt, hard fried egg. By second week I added more things, by third it was better. Then started whole thing all over again.

Water tasted horrid. I put a little red koolaid in my water and was able to drink that.

Once I realized that things were just going to taste horrid it was easier to just eat. I knew it would not be forever and one day I would be tasting again.

The biggest bummer was that my 44th birthday was just 2 days after my 4th chemo. My daughter and her friend made me a cake shaped like a heart. They frosted it pink. It tasted horrible but I ate it anyway, it made her so happy.

Ice cream!
Milkshakes, smoothies, anything through a straw, but ice cream was my favorite.

Also scrambled eggs. Nothing really tasted good, these things just didn't taste as bad.

Suzanne

Heatherbelle said:

I used the biotene also,
I used the biotene also, which helped combat mouth sores, but i still had the taste. For a while i lived on white cheddar popcorn and lipton citrus green tea. And garlic bread, too. Forego healthy eating for this short period of time & just eat what you can taste & what makes you feel good
*hugs*
Heather

Metalic taste
Plastic ware
cook in glassware if at all possible
I loved spicy food or anything with alot of flavor
flavored water

My taste buds have changed for the type of beer. Now it is only Corona--when I have one.

Biotene.

Hugs to you,
Margo