If your taste/smell are still off when it's over, look into psilocybin. I've seen it work directly. An ex's COVID left her with the sensation that everything was inedibly salty. She took a 2g dose, we cooked dinner after the peak, and for the entire night her senses returned to normal. It reverted by morning but my next step was to either get her on microdosing or do 1-2g sessions where she consciously focused on tasting familiar things.
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I was actually thinking about your post the other day wondering if anything came of it.
We broke up shortly after that so I never got a long-term update. From what I've seen in /r/microdosing, people have had persistent return of their senses by doing it a few times.
Ah, gotcha. Apologies if i'm dredging up stuff. 
Interesting tho.
This sounds plausible. Studies on sauce béarnaise syndrome would appear to agree with you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioned_taste_aversion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220314986
CW: meat, nausea
"Besides, he wondered, why was the nausea triggered by the sauce but not by the filet mignon, the pommes frites or any of the other stimuli experienced at the restaurant on that night? This conundrum was solved, in part, through work done by John Garcia showing that rats exposed to gustatory and olfactory cues — but not stimuli detected by other sensory modalities — preceding nausea lead to conditioned taste aversion."
"conditioned taste aversion" !!! I didn't know there was a name for it, thank you so much!! I was hoping somebody would come along with some science for me to check out ❤️ thank you thank you!!
I need this but for textures - cause I'm imagining trying eggs even without the smell/taste and weeping because the godawful texture
The texture is not great, but I managed to get myself okay with that texture by having it with tastes I love. If you have a sweet tooth, maybe try flan? Or do a homemade pudding with corn starch and xanthan gum and make it too thick on purpose?