Breakfast fun

My husband helps Dad get up, showered, and dressed on weekend mornings. This morning, my husband got Dad to the breakfast table, prepared his coffee (3 spoonfuls of decaf, sugar and fat-free French Vanilla with a spoonful of sweetner--ugh), helped him with his banana, and prompted him to take his morning meds.

I had assumed my husband had also poured milk on Dad's cereal. Bad assumption. When Dad realized that there wasn't any milk on his cereal, he dropped his pills in it and started pouring his coffee over it. Cheerios and way too sweet fake coffee--yum. I caught him before he had poured very much, fished out his pills, and poured the milk. He ate the Cheerios with diluted fake coffee and milk. What does this tell you about the effect Alzheimer's has on taste?