Any diet tips during cancer treatment?

The oncology dietician from Mayo told me to eat 2500 calories and have 120 grams of protein each day during radiation. My wife, and caretaker, used these recipes:

Smoothies

Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie – High Calorie, High Protein

½ cup whole milk OR a nutrition drink
1 frozen banana
¼ cup peanut butter
½ cup whole fat yogurt
¾ scoop protein powder
2 packs Stevia or a tablespoon of honey
2 tbs cream or half-and-half
Salt (just a pinch)

he recipe as it’s written was good early in treatment, but it got too thick for Steve around week 4. You can add water or use more milk or nutrition drink to thin it out. Thinning it out makes more volume, but I ⁶
Instead of milk, I often use a bottle of Core Power Elite, chocolate or vanilla (14 oz). That seems to make the perfect consistency for Steve, even though it ends up being 2 glasses of smoothie.

Sometimes I use Boost Very High Calorie, Vanilla (8 oz) instead of milk.

I add the cream or half-and-half at the end and stir it in by hand. I’m not sure, but it seems that blending it made the cream get too thick.

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Mango Smoothie – high calorie

1 cup frozen mango
1 cup whole milk or a nutrition drink
¼ cup yogurt
1 tbl honey or 1 pkg stevia
1-2 tbs heavy cream or half-and-half
1 scoop protein powder

I add the heavy cream at the end and stir it in by hand. It seems to get too thick if I blend it in the blender.

I often use Boost Very High Calorie Vanilla flavor instead of milk.
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Mixed Berry Smoothie

1 ½ cups Naked Juice (Berry Blast)
1 Frozen banana, sliced
1 ½ cups Mixed frozen berries
¾ cup Greek yogurt (5% fat)
1 tbl Honey

Sometimes I have to add water to thin it out enough.

During the chemotherapy or radiation therapy the diet should be lighter and so that it could be easily tolerated and digested.,.there is no special restrictions on diet patient can eat everything the only recommendation is neat,neat and well cooked.

Going through Chemo right now, right after Whipple surgery foods did not taste the same, I cannot eat many dairy products as they don’t sit well, most red meats don’t taste good, just a bad taste, my medical staff tell me to eat whatever I can handle and a Ensure daily for nutrients and protein. I have to drink Ensure clear as I cannot handle any milk based shakes. Next week will be my 6th Chemo, and the more therapies that I have the more foods I cannot eat due to taste. So far I can eat chicken, seafood, I eat plenty of beans also because of nutritional value. I try not to eat foods with low nutritional value because I don’t want to waste it on those foods, cannot eat big meals due to part of small intestine removed. Good luck, and God Bless everyone.