My parent is stage 4 and terminal. They have just had a stent fitted and I'm struggling to think of meal ideas to tempt them. They are meant to be on a soft diet, but some of the advice we have been given by the dietician, doctor and the booklet they gave us is really conflicting!
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Hello Rosebud
Im sorry to hear about your dad.
We've been here with stage 4, the stent & trying to think what to make for dad. It can be a challenge. We made lots of home made soups for him adding extra cream & olive oil for calories. We bought the silicone freezer trays that are cubed so we could batch cook & freeze. This allowed us to offer variety each day. Dad loved cheese straws for dipping too.
Well cooked pasta /macaroni cheese, fish in parsley sauce was ok. Mash potato was ok but it had to be made with milk & butter so not clumpy, smoother & creamier than you might normally make it. Again, add a bit of cream to it, extra calories. Pasta bakes (different sauces & well cooked, blended veg) cauliflower cheese. Rice pudding, custard, sponge puddings with lots of custard. Banana.
Biscuits dunked in tea (rich tea fingers, time out, custard creams) fruit smoothies with added protein powder but steered away from creatine based as read this isnt good for cancer. Mixing fortisip (plain) with ice cream so its like a paste.
Meat but blended & mixed with plenty of gravy.
Off the top of my head thats all I can think of but Ill look back over the meal plan I did for dad & come back & add a bit more.
Sending hugs at this difficult time x
P.s what did your dad dip the cheese straws in just normal dips like hummus? Dad really fancies dairylea but he's not allowed crackers apparently
Dad dipped them in hummous (theres different flavours) but also dipped them in his soup... tomato, broccoli & stilton, cauliflower with leek & brocolli. Dipped them in philidelphia cheese spread too xx
It can be hard ️
Dad only ever had the sausage meat xx
Thank you, it really is. He loves his food and so it's really getting him down. I wish they could give him a more personalised diet sheet. I have just ordered stage 4 meals from Wiltshire farm but not sure he will like them xx
The food side of things can be as much physiological as it is psychological I think. Its a huge adjustment along with everything else. We found the mass of information hard to navigate. You would think a personalised diet sheet would be available with more by way of suggestions. We found this not to be the case unfortunately x
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