On 12/5/2013 5:55 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 12/5/2013 4:29 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On 12/5/2013 9:47 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't know, it's been my experience that older people start
>>> going for the sweet stuff. Even my mother, she never got the
>>> point of frosting, saying Wouldn't that make it sweet? has
>>> developed a liking for cakes and pies in the past few years.
>
>> We had the hardest time getting my mother-in-law to eat and keep from
>> wasting away. She did like sweet stuff but we never tried cake and
>> frosting. That would have been great if she ate that. I would have
>> bought her all the cake she could handle.
>
> It was the same with my inlaws, it got to where I'd always bring
> a decorated bakery cake or those tins of butter cookies. I don't
> know if it's just a taste bud thing or what. Maybe more to it than
> that.
>
> Really, if cake is what made them eat, here you go.
>
> nancy

My dad consumed a lot of bakery-made pastries and the like. (Apparently
he had a serious sweet tooth in the last few years of his life.) The
only way to get him to eat was give him something either sweet or with a
bit of a kick to it (like spaghetti sauce). I don't really think he
could taste much else. Mom was the opposite, but then always did prefer
fairly bland food. You give them what they'll eat and try not to fret
about it too much.

Jill