Post #3882764

2026-07-17 10:16 UTC

@grimalkina@mastodon.social Food has no moral value and there’s no such thing as healthy eating when malnutrition is a risk factor. The simplest, densest, most addictive sugary things you can find should be falling out of your pockets every time you turn around. Have like six different kinds. Some days just choking down a Werthers Original is a win. If the treatment protocol also includes steroids then that person is going to feel like death during the day and weirdly hungry and energetic at 3AM while you need to sleep. People don’t want to be a burden and so they will not cook meals at 3AM, even when they should. Leave appetising, sugar-rich prepared foods lying around. Pop-tarts can be silently toasted, instant oatmeal just needs boiling water. Ultra-processed shelf stable garbage snacks are great because it can sit around for months if necessary and still be safe to eat cold in the middle of the night.

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@rmi@cloudisland.nz 2026-07-17 10:21

@grimalkina@mastodon.social Individually packaged foods intended to be packed into lunches for small children are also good: you can get 5 or 10 tiny bags of potato chips or popcorn or cookies in one big outside bag. Chemo massively amplifies all the weird shit people think about food but normally keep hidden: including not “wasting” food by opening a big bag of chips when you can only eat a small amount. A restaurant style speed-peeler and an apple corer is about $5 on Amazon and will make it a lot easier to keep small ziploc bags of freshly cut fruit and veges in the fridge. Normally you wouldn’t care about the effort required but extended close proximity fuels small resentments, especially if you’re tired. Throw some money at making your life easier, so you will be more gracious in turn. You can try arguing with patients about all of this food stuff and get nowhere. Pave the cowpaths instead and just make the accommodations easier.

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