What do you eat and drink when you’re ill?

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I’m suffering badly at the moment from a virus, I feel awful

I know it’s so important to keep eating and drinking but I can’t think of anything that is at all appetising. I’m struggling to even keep up my fluid intake as I just don’t fancy anything.

What do you opt for when you’re feeling ill? Hoping I can be tempted by one of your ideas

No matter how ill I am, I can always manage Heinz tomato soup! And I drink lucozade when I’m ill because that’s what my mum used to give me when I was ill as a child so the nostalgia is really comforting.

Lucozade was one of the highlights of being ill when I was a child.😁

These days, if I'm poorly, I always crave boiled egg with soldiers for some reason.

Another vote for lucozade here!

Just soup. It's the only thing I want. Ideally home made but if not, Baxters which tastes almost home made.
And fruit teas like blackcurrant which I don't normally drink or home made toddies with lemon, ginger, turmeric etc.
When I start feeling better maybe some toast and fruit.

Hope you feel better soon OP.

Lucozade and mashed potato with lots of salt and pepper

If I'm home by myself, heinz tomato soup and a cheese sandwich made with thick white bread and real butter. If someone else can be persuaded, soft boiled or scrambled eggs or cheesy mash

Soup, toast, cheese on toast. If I feel like I need fruit but can’t face it, those squeezy baby food fruit things are nice.

Depends on what type of illness. If it's a sickness bug I eat small spoonfuls of plain vanilla ice cream. It's soothing on the throat, and if I throw up it somehow makes it easier and a bit less unpleasant. The first thing I usually fancy after the vomiting stops is fresh pineapple. Don't know why.

For a cold or flu I generally have porridge, soup and lots of hot drinks. Honey & lemon, lots of ginger tea and the occasional hot bovril always go down well.

If it's a sickness virus or just nausea/cramps without vomiting, I starve myself for a day. Then plain toast, lightly buttered; bananas and plain crackers and biscuits.

Toast and marmite, or scrambled eggs on toast. Weak tea with just a little milk.

Hot squash is my go to drink, I had the flu last year after this got me through! And husband makes a nice broth soup

Hope your feeling better soon x

I was ill last week. I thought I was dying.
I even said a prayer. Thank you for my life. Please look after those I love, especially DD and my nephews
. . I’m laughing and blushing because it was bloody dramatic. Hollywood sure missed a trick with me,I can tell you.
I was up and about the next freakin day.

The only I could eat was tomato soup. Oh and digestive biscuits (plain) which I usually hate.

Mashed potato.
Custard (only time I ever eat it) - with cocoa stirred in it chocolate melted if you can stomach it.
Oatmeal/porridge.
Agree Heinz Tom soup -POSs with a little cheddar melted in.
Dry oatcake.
Milkshake - only time I ever drink and it’s wonderful.
Pasta - just with butter salt and pepper
Plain rice
All the beiges !!

Hot weetabix

Ready salted crisps which is weird as I would never choose ready salted crisps, but when I'm poorly or hungover back in the day that's all I can eat!

Heinz tomato soup

I am in bed with a hideous cold and have had a cereal bar and a bag of fake Monster Munch from Lidl. I can't be arsed to even make toast, so these things are small and tasty and require very little effort. Get well soon x

Lots of cups of tea, cuppa soups, canned soup, especially cream of chicken and mushroom. Crumpets. And Ovaltine.

And readybrek with a banana cooked in.

Chicken soup

Hot orange squash. Jacket potatoes with just a little bit of butter and salt.

Soup, either chicken or tomato. Porridge or banana. Maybe some yoghurt. If it's DS not feeling well then i'd buy him chocolate milk/milkshake and DD always opts for smoothie.

Hope you're feeling better soon. Xx

Hot juice....usually ribena or I got a gorgeous cherry one in lidl ages ago which I am eking out.
Apple tea....half to two thirds of a cup of boiling water topped up with apple juice and if you have any stem ginger a splash of the syrup from that is just lovely. This is especially nice if you are full of the cold.

Foodwise ... it's homemade chicken noodle soup, I usually have some in the freezer just in case. I really MUST get on and make some

A boiled egg chopped onto toast, or maybe scrambled.

If I can eat, then just wholemeal toast and soft fruit like strawberries. Ice lollies are good if you don't fancy drinking much.

Hope you feel better soon. 💐

Sorry when I'm I'll I only drink small sips of R Whites lemonade and eat a few rich tea biscuits.
I don't eat or drink these at any other time.
Sorry you feel crap. Hope you get better soon💐💐