What do you eat when you're sick?

dashboard_hula

I got through the entire winter without even a whiff of catching anything that wasn't self-imposed, but then I woke up this morning stiff, achy, with a headache, a sprinting nose and sore throat.

What do you eat when you're sick or poorly or under the weather? I've managed toast with a sliced banana today and buckets of mint tea and water, but I'm getting hungry again. There's a chicken risotto in the fridge that I got from a restaurant in town because it's just stodgy and salty enough to comfort if I have a small portion.

'Course, it doesn't help when you can't taste anything past the blocked nose and Lemsips!

rescue16

dashboard_hula wrote: »

I got through the entire winter without even a whiff of catching anything that wasn't self-imposed, but then I woke up this morning stiff, achy, with a headache, a sprinting nose and sore throat.

What do you eat when you're sick or poorly or under the weather? I've managed toast with a sliced banana today and buckets of mint tea and water, but I'm getting hungry again. There's a chicken risotto in the fridge that I got from a restaurant in town because it's just stodgy and salty enough to comfort if I have a small portion.

'Course, it doesn't help when you can't taste anything past the blocked nose and Lemsips!

Easy answer CHICKEN SOUP !!

dashboard_hula

You know, both myself and the other half have tried making chicken and chicken noodle soup from scratch before but it never quite worked....I always found them bland and not nearly salty enough...I have this image in my head of a golden chicken soup intensely flavoured that I never quite managed to achieve. The chicken noodle soup from the Chinese is about the closest I could find!

Lornen

Several home made scones apparently


I had swine flu at the end of December though. Bed ridden for a solid week and all I could manage on my best day was a handful of jelly babies.

Plowman

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superfish

lots of fruit and yogurts they keep up energy levels and help your immune system and plenty of fluids

ligertigon

Stay away from sugar!

It reduces the immune system big time. So no flat 7up etc

Lornen

ligertigon wrote: »

Stay away from sugar!

It reduces the immune system big time. So no flat 7up etc

serious? I was always given marietta biscuits and flat 7up..

Jimmy Garlic

ligertigon wrote: »

Stay away from sugar!

It reduces the immune system big time. So no flat 7up etc

Any proof?.. Sugary drinks are a convenient source of energy when people are too sick to stomach solid food.

Lornen

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Any proof?.. Sugary drinks are a convenient source of energy when people are too sick to stomach solid food.

+1 That's what I assumed. Lucozade was specifically designed for sick people when it was first made. That's loaded with sugar.

Magic Monkey

I wrap up well, turn the heating up to max, and eat soups, throwing in obscene amounts of hungarian hot paprika to induce sweating and for the vitamin c. Drink hot teas with honey. Also, phall curry seemed to help the one time I tried it, but it's a bit extreme.

epiphone

Tea & Toast .....

anothernight

It's been observed that sugar weakens the immune system by making white blood cells less effective. There's a few theories on how this happens, but the only thing I can remember right now is that it competes with the absorption of vitamin C. I'm no doctor though so I wouldn't really know.


When I'm sick I eat oatmeal soup. I basically fry some chopped onion until translucent, add some vegetable stock to the pan with some rolled oats and milk and cook for a few minutes. Sometimes I blitz it afterwards, but I generally don't bother. I might add cheese to it or other things as well.

It makes me feel so much better ^_^

BroomBurner

For food - toast with peanut butter, curry, chocolate digestive biscuits

For drink - tea, tea, more tea, sometimes a hot whiskey with lemon and honey (better than any lemsip!)

UrbanSea

Something filling like lasagne.

rescue16

ligertigon wrote: »

Stay away from sugar!

It reduces the immune system big time. So no flat 7up etc

Whats drugs are you smoking ?? Who told you this B**L S**t

S.R.F.C.

Soup is your only man.

The Hill Billy

Strong tea & ginger nut biscuits.

Lornen

Hill Billy wrote: »

Strong tea & ginger nut biscuits.

Ginger nut biscuits fix everything.. We should cram some into a canon and blast it at the o-zone layer. Sorted!

dashboard_hula

It's amazing how much crap you'll eat when you're feeling like it. More toast and bananas, homemade quiche, turkey sandwich and about a million dark chocolate digestives. And all that after I spent the last 3 days sleeping.
Think tomorrow I'll go mad and have a viciously hot curry to try and chase it away before I go back to work. Cheers for your suggestions too

Lornen

dashboard_hula wrote: »

It's amazing how much crap you'll eat when you're feeling like it. More toast and bananas, homemade quiche, turkey sandwich and about a million dark chocolate digestives. And all that after I spent the last 3 days sleeping.
Think tomorrow I'll go mad and have a viciously hot curry to try and chase it away before I go back to work. Cheers for your suggestions too

ah the curry will work a dream, melt the sickness out!

brianthelion

Lornen wrote: »

ah the curry will work a dream, melt the sickness out!

when I get sick I eat everything,I cannot get enough food into me.My wife do,s be amazed

Kerikosan

Depends on what your sick with?

But if its general your feeling really **** with the flu etc

Drinks - Tea

Food- Homemade soup, Irish stew, Chicken soup anything with a broth really

or home cooked food always does the trick!

squeakyduck

Sick stomach tea and toast, or liga (the baby food ) very light on the stomach.

Cold and or flu tea and toast, mashed potatoes or chicken soup.

olaola

Lets just say tea is a must.
I do like spicey noodles in ramen. Hot slurpy carby goodness.

Or even a filthy Maccie-Ds. DURT. Oh yeah...

Asphyxia

Lots of mushroom and chicken soup (home made) maybe some toast and litres of water. Ribina is nice as well

UCD AFC

If you feel any symptons of a cold get a spicy curry into you - sweat it out

johnnycee66

tinned pears and warm custard!!!!! real comfort, poor me, food

LadyW

Ambrosia Creamed Rice - feckin' gorgeous!

Busi_Girl08

Colds/flu - Usual stuff - soup (when I was sick Mum used to always make my the Knorr Chicken Noodle soup), toast, tea, creamed rice, etc etc etc.

Tummy bugs - A couple of years ago I was struck down with some mystery bug. It lasted nearly a month, bad tummy aches, could hardly eat. Literally the only thing I could stomach was Nutella on toast.

If it's the can hardly eat kind, then the dryest crackers I can find.