Chicken Soup For Cancer Patients

Chemo Friendly Soups And Stews

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Chicken And White Bean Soup

A store-bought rotisserie chicken offers incredible versatility at mealtime. Here it makes a quick and flavorful homemade chicken soup. Instead of traditional noodles, this soup is made with protein-packed beans. Choose a rotisserie chicken with mild seasoningboth plain and lemon-pepper work well. Adding the wings and some bones to the broth adds richer flavor. For a burst of green, add a few handfuls of baby spinach or 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley right before serving. For classic chicken noodle soup, substitute ½ cup of egg noodles for the beans.

Serves: 6 to 8Prep time: 15 minutes or lessTotal time: 1 hour or less

Nutritious Soup Recipes To Improve Your Appetite

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Senior Dietician Dr Krishna Priya gives us three soup recipes to help us cope with some side effects of cancer treatment.

Some cancer patients complain of loss of appetite. Sometimes, this can be a side-effect of the cancer treatment itself. Other times, it is related to tiredness and lack of activity. No matter what the cause, loss of appetite can lead to lower intake of nutrition and calories.

To keep yourself healthy and to give your body a chance to recover, you need to continue to eat sufficient amounts of food. Even if you are unable to eat large meals like you used to before, stick to eating a larger number of smaller meals.

• Forget dietary restrictions when you have lost your appetite. Eat whatever you crave, even if it is full-fat food.
• Try and exercise a little to improve your appetite. A short walk might do the trick.
• Try and have fruit juices and soups when you dont feel like having a full meal.
• Soups can be a great way to improve your nutritional intake when you are suffering from side-effects like a reduced appetite. They are easy to consume and to digest and can be packed with important nutrition.

Here is a simple recipe for a soup that will help improve your appetite.

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Soups For Friend Undergoing Chemotherapy

My nice friend Amy has both Hodgkins and non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Her prognosis is excellent, but the treatment is horrible it seems that treatment for “liquid” cancers is much more awful, I guess because it’s not like they can do surgery to remove a tumor first, so the chemo has to do all the work? Anyway, she has to have 12 sessions and they really do take it out of her.

Everyone is pitching in, of course, and since my response to every crisis is usually soup, I decided to take her soup every week. I already brought vegetable soup, matzo ball soup, and chili at least once each, and I tonight I made a really kickin’ butternut squash soup. I also like to include a little extra with each batch, too.

I want to vary the choices a lot. I know how to make lots of soups, but I also know you will have really good ideas and recipes, too, and I know you like to help.

The chili was a mistake: she said acidic things like tomato and citrus irritate her mouth , and spicy is probably a bad idea, too.

And she needs LOTS of calories. I put cream, honey, and maple syrup into the soup tonight.

My kitchen is kosher, so I can’t use anything with pork or shellfish. I can’t mix meat and milk/butter/cheese, either, but I can often substitute meat stock with vegetable stock and milk with soy milk.

Thanks in advance for your great ideas for a really nice woman who will appreciate your wonderful recipes and ideas a lot.

Why I Love This Recipe

My wife was diagnosed with Breast cancer in July of 19, and the chemo doctor suggested that if she’s having a hard time eating, she should load up on as much “chicken soup” as I can get in her. This is why there’s no potatoes or noodles in this, it is strictly Chicken with veggies. She has to avoid carbs.

But every time I make this, my family says it’s the best soup they’ve ever had. So give it a shot. Play with the amounts of spicing and even amount of veggies.

For instance a lot of times, I don’t take off 5 or 6 stalks of celery, I take the whole bunch, cut the top off about an inch down and thinly slice the whole bunch at the same time, green leafy stuff and all. It works nicely. Anyway, I hope you like this soup, and if you’re sick, it will help you get better!

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Chicken With Ginger Broth

When its cold outside, this chicken dish will keep you warm. Chicken With Ginger Broth is not only delicious, its an ideal meal for those in cancer treatment. The chicken and vegetables nourish, while… the gingery broth soothes digestion. However warming it may feel, according to traditional Chinese medicine, ginger is actually cooling to the body, making this perfect to eat during both chemo and radiation. It is really simple to make too. The gentle method weve used to steam the chicken is Chinese in origin, and if you can resist opening the lid for half an hour, you will end up with perfectly cooked chicken, and a rich, flavorful gingery broth that is great to sip on if you feel nauseated.

• 4 chicken breasts, skinless, bone-in
• 1 piece fresh ginger, peeled and thick sliced
• 3 leeks, white parts only
• 2 cups daikon radishes or turnips, cut into large cubes
• 3 dried shiitake mushrooms, soaked in hot water
• 2 cups spinach, washed

*per serving

Hey I’m Going To Try This

Hey, I’m going to try this. It sounds delicious. I am recovering well so I will add some noodles too. Thanks for the good tip. By the way, not sure where you are in treatments or recovery, KFC dark meat is like the best thing I have eaten since my taste buds started coming back. Good luck, fight hard, God bless!

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Creamy Potato And Leek Soup

• 12 tsp olive or vegetable oil
• 2 leeks, sliced
• 1 kg potatoes, peeled and chopped
• 5 cups vegetable or chicken stock
• ½ cup cream

Method: Heat oil in a large saucepan and cook leek until soft. Add cumin seeds and cook for 2 minutes. Add potato and stock to the pan and bring to the boil. Simmer for 2530 minutes until potatoes are tender. Puree in a blender or food processor until smooth. Stir in cream.

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Chicken Soup For Mind Body And Soul

Fall has arrived and with it, cooler temperatures . Nothing tastes as good on a cold day as a warm bowl of chicken soup. For many, chicken soup brings back memories of childhood and carefree youth. A cancer diagnosis can be hard, and we do all we can to bring out the positive aspects of life, whether it be introducing revolutionary new treatments, profiles on dedicated doctors and physicians, or something as simple as introducing a new recipe into the weekly rotation. Patients diagnosed with cancer often appreciate looking back on these memories so much more, as they remind them of a time when cancer and chemo treatments didnt exist.

When we were young, we couldnt wait to grow up, and as adults, we realize how precious these moments are, and urge our children and grandchildren to hold onto these simpler times as long as they can. The beauty of being young soon gives way to adult responsibilities and as you age, the more check-ups and physicals to ensure you have a healthy body to go along with your healthy mind and spirit.

Nutrition is always important no matter what age you are, and nothing tastes as good as a bowl of chicken soup. Hearty, it contains vegetables and protein that can warm even the coldest of days. Infused with flavor, our recipe for chicken soup is sure to bring every member of your family together at the table to enjoy all that fall has to offer.

Old-Fashioned Chicken Noodle SoupServes 4 Prep time: 15 min

Per serving: 423 calories, 7.7 g fat

How To Prepare Cancer

Ive made three huge pots of Cancer-Fighting Soup now for Darcie and for our family. Let me tell you, its absolutely PACKED with flavor thanks to all the seasoning and veggies just as much as its PACKED with nutrition. Heres a 1 minute video showing how easily it comes together

The key to the complex flavor is to saute the aromatics to kick-start their flavor and then to season every step of the way.

Another tip is to chop all of the vegetables about the same size so they cook evenly and are bite-sized. Its actually a pet peeve of mine when vegetable soup contains pieces that are too big to enjoy in one bite. Its worth taking the time to chop them perfectly. My recipe will guide you to the perfect soup, so dont worry!

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Best Soup Recipes For Preventing Lung Cancer

Want to learn to create appetizing soups that also have lung cancer preventing potential? This section contains a wealth of anti-lung cancer soup recipes that use foods like apples, onions, broccoli and beets which boast a range of cancer-fighting nutrients.

Now, before you dig deeper into the world of lung cancer preventing soup recipes, you may want to take a look at the section Diet Tips for Lung Cancer Prevention and the overview of the Foods That Help Fight Lung Cancer so that you are familiar with the basics of how the way you eat affects your risk of getting lung cancer.

Lemony Chicken Soup Directions

Heat olive oil in a heavy bottomed pan on a medium heat, stir fry crushed garlic, onions and carrot until softening, add chicken stock and simmer for 20 minutes.

Meanwhile cook barley pearls drain and set aside

Add chicken, cannellini beans, and lemon rind to soup cook for 5 minutes and add cavolo nero and barley pearls simmer for another 5 minutes

Take off the stove and add chopped parsley and lemon juice stir through and serve immediately

Serve with crusty wholemeal wholegrain sourdough bread

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How To Make Ahead And Freeze Cancer

This soup is perfect for making ahead and taking to a friend. If you want, just change the name to Immune-Boosting Soup if your friend has a cold. It has now been tested from fresh, reheated from the fridge as leftovers, and reheated after being frozen. It delicious and works great in all these situations!

If you want to deliver it to a friend as a fresh meal or freezer meal, you can deliver it in one of these freezer containers, including a freezer container with lid or mason jars . I love using mason jars, since the soup can be divided into single servings. Just be sure to leave at least 1 inch of headspace at the top if freezing.

My hope is that you can make this recipe for yourself and/or take it to anyone else who is battling cancer or an illness. This Cancer-Fighting Soup fights inflammation in the body and provides warmth and comfort when healing.

You may even want to add a word of encouragement to the container you deliver it in, too. I quickly scribbled out a few favorite encouraging Bible verses in sharpie on the freezer containers of the soup for Darcie.

Or you may want to include a set of our printable Truth for Trials verse cards.

To make your meal a little more fancy-schmancy than mine with these Printable Freezer Meal labels to go on top.

I hope this recipe is a blessing to you or someone else. Please leave a comment for me, and Id love to pray for you or a loved one who is battling cancer.

• Yield:1216 servings 1x
• Category:Soup

How To Make Grandma’s Chicken Soup

Note: For this easy chicken soup, you can use homemade chicken stock or a good quality broth or stock from the grocery store.

2. When the chicken is done, remove it from the pot and coarsely chop, then add the chopped chicken back into the pot.

Note: You can purée the chicken right in the pot using an immersion blender, or use a food processor to purée the chicken before putting it back into the pot. Or just use a knife and chop the chicken very finely so there are no bite-sized pieces.

3. Stir in half-and-half, cream, butter, and salt and pepper. Using an immersion blender, carefully purée the soup until there are no chicken chunks.

4. Turn heat to low and simmer for a few minutes. Grandma’s Chicken Soup can be served immediately or will keep in the fridge for 3-4 days.

Tip: I have not frozen this soup and I don’t think it would freeze well due to the amount of cream.

If you love to cook and experiment with food, I caution you that this soup is difficult to make. You will be so tempted to add something. Celery, carrots, onion, thyme, whatever…you just want to put something else in that pot. But if you’re making Grandma’s Chicken Soup for someone who’s not feeling well, then don’t do it.

That’s it. Velvety, mellow easy chicken soup for the soul.

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Lemon Chicken Rice Soup

Lemon Chicken Rice Soup

Heres why this soup will improve your diarrhea:

• It is low fibre, low residue and low fat, which is exactly the kind of food that combats diarrhea.
• Even the vegetables used in this soup are low fibre.
• It is a great source of protein.
• It has a silky smooth texture which helps you consume it better.

The Best Foods For Fighting Breast Cancer

Through my research and her doctors guidance, she decided to focus on a plant-rich diet full of a variety of vegetables, lentils, beans, fruit, nuts, eggs, and Omega 3-rich fish to provide fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and healthy fats to aid healing and boost immunity.

We learned that foods like mushrooms, broccoli and cauliflower, lentils, black beans, and spinach are some of the best for fighting breast cancer. And, thats exactly the kinds of foods I included in this big batch of Cancer-Fighting Soup for my friend.

IMPORTANT! Please keep in mind that I am not a dietician or licensed medical practitioner, so please ask your doctor if the ingredients included in this soup are ok for you if youve been diagnosed with cancer and/or are receiving treatment. Ive heard that some foods like grapefruit and even garlic can interfere with certain medications.

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More From Chicken Soup For The Soul

Five tips for empowering yourself in the face of cancer Inspired by Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and David TabatskyCancer makes us think of uncertainty, pain, mortality and weakness. Instead, those diagnosed with cancer and their loved ones need patience, support, understanding and strength. Life after diagnosis can be lived with encouragement and hope. The contributors to Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book share 101 inspiring and provocative stories about how cancer affected them and how they reacted. Here are five tips for cancer patients to empower themselves in the face of cancer.

1. Accept that it sucks. Emmarie Truman had a malignant brain tumor. The 16-year-old spent part of the school year undergoing treatments, but also started to embrace other parts of her life. Emmarie tried out for the softball team and made it. She went to school bald instead of hiding her scar under a hat. After receiving a button that said “Cancer Sucks,” Emmarie realized that was the best way look at it. “Cancer does suck,” she says “and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you can realize that no matter how much it sucks you have to deal with it, and that you might as well deal with it with a smile.”