Aw, that poor guy. My heart goes out to your husband because I know how exactly how he feels. There’s no appetite or incentive to eat anything. Food doesn’t have any taste and the mouth-feel is off. Everything felt like cardboard to me. Can he nibble on anything like crackers, graham crackers, lactose free ice cream, pudding, small pieces of toast? My husband used to make mini foods for me on a plate such as one small bite of a pbj, or a small piece of chicken, 3 pieces of shell pasta and the like. Only one bite helped because it wasn’t enough to make me hate the ‘taste or feel’. Also, I was in another area of the house when he cooked so the smells didn’t impact me.

Sometimes those anti-nausea meds can stop things from moving through the digestive system so that’s counterproductive and can add on other layer of misery. If he can eat some yogurt daily with a little ground flax, that helps. Activia yogurt was very helpful for me. I know there are better yogurts for us but to make it easy for my husband grocery shopping we went with Activia. The active culture in there helped keep the normal gut biome happy.

You mentioned he couldn’t take his steroids before chemo. Is this something he takes right before chemo or is this an ongoing prescription? Also, have you notified his oncologist to see if they have some suggestions for him?