I like a good strong cup of coffee in the morning. Spiked with Turmeric and some coconut oil. Maybe a little chocolate if O have some of that at hand. This not to say that a good strong mug of tea with milk and a little honey does not astray. My trigeminal surgeries really limit my tasting ability ao a strong aroma is a good thing. At least then I have another sensory input that reminds me of what things should taste like.
I still like a good lukewarm cup of coffee. What about "YOU" what do you really like?
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After two and half years I am very fortunate that some of my taste buds are coming back after chemo and radiation. Coffee has been one of the things to return and what a happy feeling 😁. Hot coffee ☕️ and a little creamer and I am set👍😊. I just hope other things start to have some taste again 🙏. Ken 🐾🐾
The best thing about my day is V’s excitement when I get her up in the morning. I use to really love lattes, but I think my taste buds are hibernating.
No more like Doritos spicy nacho, chips, or food that has a fried batter on it ie pork chops chicken Sometimes with the food I eat the crunch and come back for the meat later
I have lost my sense of smell due to MS, so I am not sure what a lot of things taste like. I like a good cup of chamomile and lavender tea in the morning. But, I am not really sure if it tastes good or just feels good to have a cup of hot liquid in the winter.
One cup of coffee, first thing in the morning, is my ritual. I've tried many times to cut coffee during the day and replace it with herbal tea (ginger, hibiscus, mint, and many others). But that first cup of coffee is a must. Without it, my day does not start, and I'm useless for hours.
I have to thicken my liquids so I haven't had coffee for a long time. I could go for a cup. I like my coffee like I like my women black and sweet and NO I'm not black. I just like the saying. I've gotten some pretty good replys from colored truck drivers when I'd tell them that.
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE iced coffee!!! 😍 Anything to warm/hot to drink numbs my mouth and my taste buds leave for a while 👀, so anything I eat after something warm/hot doesn't have a taste to it for a few hours. D*mn MS. 😊❤🌷
"Real Chai": In one pot bring some milk, cardamom seeds, and a little saffron to a boil. Shred a chunk of ginger and add it to another pot with water and bring it to a boil. Immediately add the black tea and black pepper. That is enough to get the tea out of the tea so mix it all together in one pot. Bring that pot to a boil 3 times. Add sugar to taste. inflammatory, high neurotransmitter, smells awesome, and tastes grea.t
Now that sounds good! And interesting as well. Any further info you can provide as in specific products would be very much appreciated. You wouldn’t by chance have written this down at some point would you?
Hahaha absolutely! The problem is that once you make real chai yourself, that, you will never, ever like powdered chai again. I have never found a single shop that makes real chai. In those cases, a latte is better since it is 50% milk.
Well, it goes something like this. Years ago I was served a coffee drink in a restaurant after having dinner with someone else’s wife (just kidding on that part 🤫). That was a turning point for me. It was simply bliss. Never having been one to leave well enough alone I started experimenting with with different concoctions. The final result was as follows: 1 large cup of strong coffee, preferably Kona Peaberry, 1 shot of Grand Mariner, 1 shot of Kahlua, and finally one shot of Baileys Coffee flavored, which to my consternation has been replaced by Mocha flavored Baileys. Add some cream and top with whipped cream. I submit this as the perfect Winter drink. Oh, you’ll need one last thing. Someone to help you get to your room. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it, trust me. Never order this in a restaurant or anyplace away from home as they charge you for three premium ounces of liquor which can get pricey. I haven’t had one of these in a long time but I have a promise to keep with a woman I worked with for 25 years and ended up hiring. She took ove my spot (at my strong suggestion) when my disability ran out and I was summarily terminated, and who became my best friend. She and my wife also became good friends as well. Neither of us have any family locally so we tend to spend the holidays together. I promised her one this Winter. She can use the guest bedroom since there’s no way we can let her drive after one of these. I haven’t had one of these in a while since I pretty much lost my taste for alcohol a long time ago. My wife is the same, gave it up over 25 years ago. And yes, I am a coffee snob so the Peaberry is only a rare and special treat these days due to cost restrictions. But OMG! Waking up to a pot of Peaberry brewing is a very special morning.
Anyway, try it. You can thank me later.
Otherwise I enjoy a variety of teas hot and cold as well as a steaming hot Chai Latte.
Love your flair for story telling Dave. I used to like to drink Baileys and watch it snow, but I gained 20 lbs one particularly snowy winter and had to give that up. That and the fact that I can't drink alcohol anymore - 1 thimble full and I'm reeling like the proverbial drunken sailor because of the MS. Oh well. It was fun while it was doable.
Just plain old orange pekoe tea for me, and DD vanilla chai latte, but being lactose intolerant, these are but a memory. I do make it myself with lactose free milk but it's just not the same. I really enjoy what others in the forum have said about their favorite hot beverages!
I've tried to give up coffee, thinking maybe the caffeine is a bad thing with MS. I've given up gluten, dairy, eggs, rarely eat sugar. I've tried decaffeinated coffee and it's not the same - the bite is gone. I've tried switching to tea. I like the idea of tea - sounds so healthy, so many varieties. And I do drink herbal teas in the evening mostly. But nothing replaces that morning cup of coffee. I buy organic beans, grind them (love that smell!!!), and drink it in the morning, black with a little coconut oil in it. There's nothing else like that wonderful coffee smell in the morning and that warm cup to get you going. Even if it's all in my head.
I can tell a difference if I start eating sugar (like when cheating on holidays). I notice an immediate difference if I eat dairy, especially dairy plus sugar, like ice cream. My legs go numb. I also don't eat MSG - same reaction to that. The gluten I've mostly noticed in how my bowels function, and gut is related to healthy immunity. Eggs I'm not sure about, but I've gotten used to eating this way and if anything gives me any edge at all I stick with it. And with this disease we have so little control over anything that if doing an anti-inflammatory diet helps in some small way it's worth it to feel like I'm doing something that helps, even if it's just a little. What I do is based on the Wahls protocol, though I admit I have a hard time getting in all the veggies, but I do the best I can. Exercise is an important of it too, which I struggle with. Mostly my exercise is a stationary bike, some stretchy bands, hand weights. And I don't do nearly enough. But I figure whatever I can do on the days I can do it, something is better than nothing.
I completely agree. I am still in the process of changing my diet.....and it ain't easy.Lol I do exercise already,so I'm good there. The diet I am looking at is McDougall's .I think it might be based on the Wahl's diet.Thanks for answering.It's good to hear of someone doing well with it!
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