Those without taste and smell, what are you managing to eat?!

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Totally lost my sense of taste and smell 2 days ago. Finding eating quite an unpleasant experience and have a constantly dry mouth too. Need to keep the DC fed (and me and DH too, obviously) - we all have Covid but only the adults can't taste or smell.

Just wondered what everyone is is doing when they really don't feel like cooking? (Also, I've discovered it's actually quite tricky to cook when you can't taste or smell what you're making!)

I’ve totally lost my sense if smell but I find I can still sort of taste if something is salty or sweet- earlier I had a craving for crisps, which I very rarely eat! Otherwise I find bananas keep the nausea at bay, something about the texture. I’ve only fancied quite plain, bland food, like toast and weetabix.

I just lived off really bland food - crumpets, toast and cereal with the odd protein shake chucked in.

I did protein shakes with added vitamins so was getting all of the essentials with none of the fun. It’s not easy but I got used to it just in time for my senses to start coming back! Kickstarted my diet though!

Salt and vinegar Pringles, marmite on toast. Everything else is tasteless. It’s horrible

@Lineeyes1986

Salt and vinegar Pringles, marmite on toast. Everything else is tasteless. It’s horrible

Exactly this!! 48 packets of salt and vinegar McCoys eaten between us in 7 days.

Marmite rice cakes.
We made 'ill soup' - carrots, celery, onion, can tomatoes, herbs and stock, few handfuls of red lentils. Grated cheese on it, dollop on yoghurt and pesto. Could only really taste the salt, but knew it was healthy.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot that sounds yummy! DH can eat lentils because of his IBS but maybe I can make something along those lines next week when he's gone back to work and I'm still isolating with DD!

We made brownies yesterday (well, DS did most it) and I haven't wanted one - no point, will just be a tasteless, dry lump. Attempted to eat a scone with butter and jam yesterday and couldn't get beyond 2 bites.

When will it pass....?! At least eating/cooking/baking fills the time but when you don't fancy it then what....?

Hi, just joining in as I have altered sense of taste rather than loss of taste. For the last few days I’ve had the most overwhelming metallic taste in my mouth and as a result everything tastes revolting, and the metal taste makes me feel continuously sick.
Has anyone else had this?

@Tr0ubled sounds like it could be parosmia. I’ve had this for around 3 months now and it’s horrible! If you’re on Facebook have a look for the AbScent parosmia/phantosmia support group.

I found I needed to play with texture rather than flavour, so I are a lot of crisps and other crunchy food like raw veg coz even though I couldn't taste or smell them the texture made then edible, iyswim

I’m in week 8 of no taste or smell. I’ve found I’ve been drinking loads of tea and coffee as it’s a temp change. I didn’t eat much and lost half a stone through isolation - so every cloud lol.

I’m eating normal meals now, DH is making a great meal every night as he wants me to be eating something delicious when it does come back 🤣

I’ve had a few false starts with it returning for a days or so then off it pops again too.

I ate healthy stuff cos I couldn’t taste it 😂 and when poorly, you need your vitamins! I ate quite a lot of stir fries as the veg was crunchy & I find noodles quite a nice comfort food. I used a sweet & sour sauce as I could taste basic flavours, literally if something was sweet or salty. I also ate a shed tonne of biscuits as they just tasted sweet. No distinct flavour. Ginger biscuits & chocolate ones tasted the same which was bizarre!

I still have about 20% smell two months later but taste is now 80%. I think the missing 20% is linked to my lack of smell!

I’m really struggling to eat because of this. I ordered a curry last night but that didn’t work. Getting by on marmite on toast most days. Oh and satsumas