"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> 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.

I never did understand this thing where very old people are put on a
restricted diet! Hell why???? Let them enjoy whatever life they have
left!!

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