Anyone find themselves watching food network 24/7?

spector551
spector551 Member Posts: 109
in Head and Neck Cancer #1

I am a foodie.. .my wife and I have travelled the world for good food and boy... do I miss food!! I watch food on TV constantly lol.

 

Soon to be finished with my 6th week of treatment.

 

God bless,

Jamie

 

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  • CivilMatt
    CivilMatt Member Posts: 4,722 Member
    #2
    24/7 minus sleep & HGTV

    Jamie,

    Yes, the Food Network is popular at The H&N Diner.  Have you tried the sweaty water or the cardboard potatoes?  We are having a special on tasteless smoothies for the next few weeks.  To help you we have both a PEG and Magic Mouth Wash bar to put you in the mood.

    Food is a tasty subject.

    Matt

  • Duggie88
    Duggie88 Member Posts: 760 Member
    #3
    Food Network

    Jamie

    I watched it all the time with my dry mouth pretending to drowel over the fine dishes they prepared. Like Matt I also pretended I enjoyed the cardboard mashed potatoes I went to the kitchen for during commercial breaks.

    You can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Congrats on the 6th week.

          Jeff

  • lornal
    lornal Member Posts: 428
    #4
    Love that channel

    I did watch Foodnetwork All the time until recently.  I love to cook - and have learned a lot from that channel.

    But..

    I can't eat anymore Cry.  I'm going the opposite direction of those just out of treatment.  I can only eat soft foods for a few days after my esophagus is dilated.  And then nothing.  Its getting hard to watch food on TV.  Even my family often eats meals when I am not present.  I still cook for them occasionally.  Easier to make them food I don't like as much.  Tonight - blackened catfish - I'll make it extra spicy so I know I wouldn't eat it even if I could.

    What I miss most - Fried chicken.  We have travel states (not the world) for some good chicken!

  • phrannie51
    phrannie51 Member Posts: 4,716
    #5
    I never watched it before

    I got sick....but it was my fav channel during treatment.....I was SO hungry....Dives and Diners was my favorite, but I'd still watch that channel all day if hubby didn't kick me off it.

    I haven't watched it since about 2 months out of treatment tho.....Laughing 

    p

  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #6
    Abi-Normal...

    You are already displaying many signs of being part of the Ab-Normal Clan....

    Many of us have had this strange behavior, you're not the first...

    I took it to another level... I recorded (DVR) several food related channels, Best BBQ in the South, Man Against Food..., Anthony B, Bobby F, and Paula D are all friends of mine...

    Sitting, drooling imaginary drool...

    JG

  • dlygoblue
    dlygoblue Member Posts: 28
    #7
    Food Network Rules!

    Watched it all the time while in treatment, and for months afterward while I had a PEG tube and couldn’t eat real food (throat too burned from radiation). Watching that network was my way of eating vicariously. And it motivated me to keep eating something and use my throat muscles (even soft foods while I still had the PEG tube) so that I could go try those restaurants and those recipes once I was able to eat more normally. Keep the faith.

    David

  • donfoo
    donfoo Member Posts: 1,771 Member
    #8
    oh yeah

    daily line up includes

    Anthony B and America's Test Kitchen.

    As a glimmer of light to the foodies out there, my last rads were June 2013, taste went down about 50% but now taste is 95% returned to the old nornal. One percent is dry bread still catches a bit, likely due to slightly less saliva. One percent is fully cooked long grain rice has a very slight dry/chalk/pasty texture,taste and smell fine. Fully cooked short grain is fine. Three percent is accuracy/insensitivity to spice. Something off just enough to keep dishes from hitting the target. Most of us experience the anything spicy is too much stage. Interestingly enough, the issue is a slight insensivity to spice so I tend to overpower a bit, according to the others at the table. seems ok to me. LOL

     

  • hwt
    hwt Member Posts: 2,328 Member
    #9
    donfoo said:

    oh yeah

    daily line up includes

    Anthony B and America's Test Kitchen.

    As a glimmer of light to the foodies out there, my last rads were June 2013, taste went down about 50% but now taste is 95% returned to the old nornal. One percent is dry bread still catches a bit, likely due to slightly less saliva. One percent is fully cooked long grain rice has a very slight dry/chalk/pasty texture,taste and smell fine. Fully cooked short grain is fine. Three percent is accuracy/insensitivity to spice. Something off just enough to keep dishes from hitting the target. Most of us experience the anything spicy is too much stage. Interestingly enough, the issue is a slight insensivity to spice so I tend to overpower a bit, according to the others at the table. seems ok to me. LOL

     

    Yep

    Been there, done that! I think it's a requirement during tx.

  • hrowe
    hrowe Member Posts: 57
    #10
    I must have saved a few hundred recipes!

    Yep, required watching Laughing

     

  • robswife87
    robswife87 Member Posts: 209
    #11
    BBQ Pitmasters

    was Rob's favorite

    Watched every marathon that was on. First restaurant we ate at was his favorite, Smokey Bones. Friends sent a gift card for it when he was ready to try. he loved it.

    Sandy

  • MarineE5
    MarineE5 Member Posts: 1,030 Member
    #12
    Been there and done that

    Watched all the cooking shows and didn't learn a thing, all I could think about was eating and tasting again, anythingLaughing

    My Best to You and Everyone here

  • catluver96
    catluver96 Member Posts: 73
    #13
     Me too! And I don't even

     Me too! And I don't even like to cook. I saved all kinds of recipes thinking I'd try them when I felt better. Never did. In the mean time I would sip on my Ensure which tasted mostly like soap and hurt like hell going down.

     Thankfully those days are over! There is light at the end of the tunnel.

    :)

  • jim and i
    jim and i Member Posts: 1,788 Member
    #14
    OK Jim and I are real

    OK Jim and I are real abinormal we watched, and still do, Gunsmoke and Mat Dillon for hours. What does that say? Funny thing is, I never liked the show when it was popular. Abinormal affects us caregivers too.

    Debbie

  • Mikemetz
    Mikemetz Member Posts: 465 Member
    #15
    phrannie51 said:

    I never watched it before

    I got sick....but it was my fav channel during treatment.....I was SO hungry....Dives and Diners was my favorite, but I'd still watch that channel all day if hubby didn't kick me off it.

    I haven't watched it since about 2 months out of treatment tho.....Laughing 

    p

    Triple D!

    When my wife and i travel out of town we search the Diners, Drive-ins & Dives web site for locations in the city we are going to.  Have found some great places and not-so-great ones, too.  After being on a feeding tube for several months and going through the frustrations of getting back to my limited food choices, part of my Cancer Revenge List (sorta like a Bucket list) was to eat well when I could, so we watch the Food Network a lot to get ideas.  My trismus has gotten pretty bad so my choices are limited.  What I wouldn't give for one of those mouth-stretching bites out of a double green chili cheeseburger.  Instead I have to nibble around the edges of a single burger, chew the hell out of it, and hope it doesn't get stuck on the way down.  But, given the alternative to being a HNC survivor, I enjoy the foods I can eat and try to be as adventerous as I can.

    Mike

     

  • KTeacher
    KTeacher Member Posts: 1,103
    #16
    Yes

    You are a true survivor.  The first time I went through treatment it seemed like food shows were the only thing on TV.  I remember this topic came up then also.  Funny, the rest of my treatments (just about yearly) I haven't watched the food shows.

  • Jeff2159
    Jeff2159 Member Posts: 108
    #17
    Skiffin16 said:

    Abi-Normal...

    You are already displaying many signs of being part of the Ab-Normal Clan....

    Many of us have had this strange behavior, you're not the first...

    I took it to another level... I recorded (DVR) several food related channels, Best BBQ in the South, Man Against Food..., Anthony B, Bobby F, and Paula D are all friends of mine...

    Sitting, drooling imaginary drool...

    JG

    LMAO

    My wife thought I was so weird the first 9 months of the year as I too would tape all the food shows even though I had a feeding tube. Off the tube but can only eat pureed food and liquids are a challenged but I have stopped watching the shows as I really want to naw on some ribs or sandwich and that probably will never happen

     

    Jeff

  • boardwalkgirl
    boardwalkgirl Member Posts: 269
    #18
    me too

    When I was taking treatments last year, I watched the food network every day. My husband said he thought I substituted it for my food that I couldn't taste. 

  • Ron Silver
    Ron Silver Member Posts: 94
    #19
    Barbecue - Spicy - Chinese - Chili

    Loved barbecue ribs, now can't eat.  Same with chinese, chili, hot wings.  Nearly 7 months post treatment.  Will I ever be able to eat those items again??  (Same with candy, chocolates etc).

  • staceya
    staceya Member Posts: 720
    #20
    Ron Silver said:

    Barbecue - Spicy - Chinese - Chili

    Loved barbecue ribs, now can't eat.  Same with chinese, chili, hot wings.  Nearly 7 months post treatment.  Will I ever be able to eat those items again??  (Same with candy, chocolates etc).

    me too!!

    I never watched before treatment, but during treatment I would hook up my iv bag dinner and watch away!!! Now I watch very rarely. We must have needed to... I wonder if the food network knows about this, maybe they could do some custom shows for us.

  • debbiejeanne
    debbiejeanne Member Posts: 3,102 Member
    #21
    staceya said:

    me too!!

    I never watched before treatment, but during treatment I would hook up my iv bag dinner and watch away!!! Now I watch very rarely. We must have needed to... I wonder if the food network knows about this, maybe they could do some custom shows for us.

    stacy, that's an AWESOME

    stacy, that's an AWESOME idea!!!!!!!!!!!  maybe you could send them an email with that suggestion.  they might truly be interested in doing a show or 2 for cancer patients.  let us know if you write them.  have a Merry Christmas and Happy and Healthy New Year.

    God bless you,

    dj

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