Some people say I’m lucky; I sometimes enjoy eating, but most often fixing a meal is a chore when I’ll eat only about one-third of what most would call normal, and don’t want anything else for about two hours. I don’t eat full meals regularly but, ironically, I enjoy cooking big meals occasionally for guests.

Here are some things that I turn to during the frequent times I’d prefer not to eat anything: A few bites of fresh raw broccoli, carrots, orange, apple, banana, nuts, Cheetos and chocolate milk, a cookie with milk, cheese toast with spinach leaves under the cheese, pineapple juice or pineapple, baked sweet potato, plain yogurt with canned fruit mixed in and sometimes granola, a cereal bar, garlic hummus on a cracker.