AUSTIN, Texas -- Cancer treatments affect every part of a patient’s day -- even something as simple as eating.

• Nonprofit fueled by mom who's daughter died in 2004
• Provides cancer patients with tasty, calorie-conscious foods

Becky Nichols’s daughter, Libbie, was born with leukemia.

While Libbie was in and out of hospitals, Becky learned the hard way how to help her eat.

“Fresh flour tortillas, hot pretzels, mac and cheese. They were things that she could eat that tasted good and that is also soft so it goes down easy. It’s got a good amount of calories so you know if they need to keep weight on or gain a lot of weight" said Nichols.

After spending years in the hospital for treatment and surgeries, five-year-old Libbie died in 2004.

Nichols took her grief head-on. She reached out to other families going through what she had just gone through. She created the Loving Libbie Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit that provides delicious food to kids fighting cancer.

Thousands of children have dug into the Loving Libbie Famous mac and cheese or visited the Libbie Funtime Foodtruck for a taste of her home cooking.

Kids like Mo Colligan say she just can't get enough.

“It reminds me of Thanksgiving. My mom makes mac and cheese like this and it just reminds me of my mom's home cooking and of warmth and home," Colligan said.

Nichols has dished out 40,000 servings of mac and cheese at hospitals throughout the state since 2006 and now you can find it in the aisles of local grocery retailer H-E-B.

All proceeds from sales at the grocery store chain go back to the foundation so more families have access to the meals.

Nichols’s eye is now on expanding her nonprofit to children fighting cancer throughout the country.

Head on over to lovinglibbie.org for more information.