Dietary advice

Hi Worrier26. Found this link for you which might have a few ideas? Try adding calories where you can like adding cream/cheese/butter to mash, eating full fat yoghurts or mini desserts, fish finger sandwiches with butter and mayo, etc.

https://cdn.macmillan.org.uk/dfsmedia/1a6f23537f7f4519bb0cf14c45b2a629/2968-10061/mac13614-e04-building-up-diet-pdf?_ga=2.17432697.1363724830.1665215168-1086557477.1625558621

Hope this helps

Take care

Karen x

To be fair I think they are pretty grotty . 
The one my mum could tolerate was a chicken soup one from complan . You get it in the supermarket health section . A slice of toast and the chicken soup one was more like a cup of soup .

She found it more tolerable than the sweet tastes .

phizer apparently has some cancer care tips that include diet .  Not looked at them yet but my mum too has dropped her weight . She is down to just over eight stones now and we are getting some dietitian involvement but told to introduce a lot of protein and high calorie foods . I have to give her six small meals . Small scrabbled eggs , French toast . Etc . I have been told to cream her soups , potatoes and cook as much with it in sauces etc . Full fat milk  . It’s such a departure from our norm but I have done it once before with success . I used milk shakes previously as they are calorific but they want her to eat her calories this time and not drink them ! But I can give her ice cream , custards and full fat yogurts . 
If he is still in hospital you might want to ask about him having milk shakes as it might be easier to get that into the hospital . 
Ask for a dietitian to get involved . Don’t be afraid to ask .

Take care ,

Court 

Hi Worrier26

I was also sick on some of the booster drinks. I found the avoiding the fruit ones (bar mango as that was ok for me) founf the coffee flavoured booster drink besr.

Your Dad may need some time on a "low fibre, low residue" diet while the body recovers from surgery. For me this was quite a few weeks and even into start of chemo.

They will adjust the chemo to be appropriate to his current weight, so my suggestion is take it at whatever pace your Dad is happy with. For me that was slow and patiently as i didn't want to go completely off my food while my body was clearly struggling with it.

Ask the hospital / colorectal nurse about "low fibre, low residue" diet. They should tell you what's best for your Dad's specific case.

Good luck and we're all here for you

My mum was face timing last night when my sister gave her a build up drink ! Strawberry . I can assure you she was not enjoying that . But down it went . She had only managed four portions so thought this was best . 

Hope you can get a good chat with your dad’s ward . You should not be left trying to figure this out on your own especially since he has a bowel resection to consider as CrumpetsOrToast points out he might have a limited diet .

What I would reassure you my mum went right through chemotherapy three stones lighter for two years . The other point CrumpetsOrToast raised . Weight can fall off but much to my surprise it can be quite a task to put it back on . Being aware of that point can help keep goals realistic . For us just now preventing further weight loss is the goal and stabilise the situation and if we can add some pounds it’s a win !  It did slowly come back on but took a full year .

Might try the coffee ones as mum likes coffee tastes . You got to try !!!

Take care everyone .

Court