since i fairly new here march or so my husband is convinced that all the icecream he has bought this summer has been melted and refroze because he can taste it i know thats not the case i could see once maybe but all of it and you cant tell him the differance kinda makes me smile if it wasnt for this disease
I don't know what it is about taste, but it's definitely an issue. My husband takes at least 17 different pills for Alzheimer's, diabetes, high blood pressure, prostate, depression, aggression, etc. etc. etc. I have been told that has an effect on taste. Later in the disease, it's missed brain signals that affects taste.
Sid was ALWAYS a bland eater, and I do mean bland. If there was a hint of a spice, he wouldn't eat it. Now, he complains that the food has no taste unless it has some herbs and spices in it. He still hates hot and spicy, but now he says he likes it if it has a bit of a kick to it.
Yeah, there are all kinds of taste issues. My dh will hardly eat vegetables any more, and no green salads except in a restaurant, sometimes. Some meals that he used to love, he sticks his nose up at. But I'm thinking of just making one, without asking first and see what happens. Meanwhile he eats all the sweets, nuts and fruit that he can get hold of, even sneaks ice cream when I'm not looking, which he's never done before. I've learned to hide all the ice cream except his sugarless, which I put right on top in the freezer. And hide anything I really don't want him to eat.
My DH stopped eating veggies several months ago, said they had no taste at all. One evening I made beef shish-ka-bobs, and put all the veggies on the stick; doctored it up really well with spices - he ate it all! Said it was so good. Now I have to make them (with either beef, chicken or pork) at least twice a week! He still eats the veggies on the stick! LOL
I've read that the sense of smell is affected very early in the disease. My DH can't smell much of anything. That probably has an impact on the sense of taste.
I don't think that its only taste my lo can eat a big dinner an 20 minutes later ask what she should make for DINNER?Mind you she hasn't cooked in the 21 years we've been married.She's an eating machine always munching something an looking for more,that full button ust be broke too.
I have had several doctors advisel me that as AD progresses, the patient loses almost all of their sense of taste. The LAST one to go is SWEET. That is why they crave sweet foods and many care facilities serve a sweet fruit (candied apples, pudding, etc.) at the beginning of a meal to get them to eat more. Last night I put cinnamon sugar and marshmallows on DH's sweet potato and he ate every single bite. Last week, I baked his potato and served it with butter. He only picked at it. We do whatever works,don't we?
JeanetteB, they are good. I use either chicken which I cut up into cubes or buy the tenders; pork roast, which I also cut into cubes; or beef - same thing; or buy the beef for stew. Also do it with shrimp. I use squash, zuchinni, tomatoes, green,red and yellow peppers, mushrooms - whatever I happen to have that will grill okay. Drizzle a little olive oil over all and put plenty of spices on it which jazzes up the veggies!
John used to like me to grill FRUIT on the grill ....... I'd half pears, plums, peaches off of our trees and put them on at the last few moments of grilling. Fabulous.
So far DH eats plenty of veggies. He'll eat anything I put out--like I said--so far. Seems to have lost his taste for pasta and he used to love it. He'll eat it once in a while but prefers a pot roast in the crock pot with potatoes, carrots, celery, onion and mushroom soup on top to make its own gravy. When I do that, I have no problems. So, that's what I do. :)
That's interesting Mawzy, my DH doesn't like pasta anymore either and used to love it. I think I'll try the pot roast, good idea. He does like sweet corn. After 45 years in this country being homesick for good Ohio sweet corn and occasionally trying the expensive junk in the supermarket, I last year discovered a farmer down the road who grows it himself and sells it in his barn. It is really great, I love him for it and I don't even know the guy. I should have posted this under Gratitude.
Well, aren't we all copy cats! I cooked a pot roast yesterday with the potatoes, carrots and onions ...slowly in the oven all afternoon...and we enjoyed it again tonight. Talk about good ole basic comfort food! Nothing beats a buttery tender pot roast with all of those root vegetables. mmmm.
Funny-in the middle of the summer heat I wanted a chicken pot roast like my mother used to make . Lo and behold chickens were on sale. Sauteed lots of onions, browned the chicken and added lots of root veggies to the pot. I get the huge carrots at a local produce market-contrary to what most folk think-they are the sweetest ever. Let the pot simmer for hours and invited my friends to join me.
I found out a few years ago that my kids do not like stews or pot roast. I use to use the crock pot at least weekly when they were growing up. My son will not eat veggies cooked together.
True story: one of my sons ate everything, the other was a picky eater. UGH, POT ROAST. I learned to make boeuf bourguignon from Julia (pot roast cut into stew, basically) and he LOVED it! End of story: the picky eater became the gourmet and wine connisseur, the gobbler became a germ-o-phobic (with help from his wife).
We're having carnitas for dinner tonite, folly, which I'm sure is from a boston butt (which you never see up here). But I got it already cooked from Trader Joe's. FREEEZE portions!