What is your go to food when recovering from illness?

[Geekster1963]

I've had a horrible bug since Sunday night and been feeling utterly wiped out and been sick. I've spent most of the last two days napping and after being sick this morning I'm finally feeling a lot perkier.

I can think about food now without wanting to be sick and actually feel hungry, I just can't decide what I fancy.

What do you like after a bout of illness?

Miso soup
Plain jacket potato

white toast with butter and Sainsburys own marmite- so salty and delicious.

Tinned chicken soup with cheese croutons. That’s just some chopped up cheese.
Served with a cheese sarnie made with toast.

Porridge with butter and sugar

I always want salty carbs after I’ve been ill. Usually plain crisps, McDonald’s fries, white toast and butter, mash with sour cream mixed in or baked potato and butter. And fat coke.

Chips - comforting and easy on the stomach
Ginger nuts - sugar
Salt & Vinegar crisps - salt

Porridge with butter @pootroll (that felt weird typing that!) sounds interesting. How much butter for a standard bowl or porridge? Salted? Unsalted? Spreadable?

Mum always used to give us "Chucky eggs" which are hard boiled eggs mashed in a cup with butter and salt with buttered toast.

Soup as many others have said has always gone down well too, preferably home made - usually lentil, scotch broth or carrot and squash - but if I've none in freezer tinned lentil soup will do.

And yes crisps - light and easy on stomach.

I think the salt thing is down to dehydration either from upset stomach or sweating loads so we lose salts and body craves to replace.

Like pps I also crave milk (which is almost nutritionally complete so makes sense from that perspective) or fresh juice (vitamin c and sugar boost I suspect)

@Questionablemushroom

Like this - I like salted butter
www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2019/02/traditional-scottish-style-oatmeal-with-butter.html

@pootroll well we had it for breakfast this morning and I am definitely a fan! Thank you!

Awesome :) glad you liked it @questionablemushroom

Fruit rich in vitamin C such as kiwis
Ginger tea
Dry biscuits
Apple juice
Lovely thick soup

Soup and toast

Boiled egg and soldiers.

Chicken soup.
Crackers with cheese (unless still full of a cold as I usually avoid dairy until that's better).
My DM makew this yummy runny semolina thing which is SO good when feeling unwell.

Cheesy mash with tomato ketchup

Cream crackers and Marmite

I revert to my childhood with a bowl of porridge, made with water and salt, with a mug of cold full cream milk.

Chicken soup (or Pot Noodle)
Stewed apple
Plain rice

Toast
Buttery crumpets
Soup and crusty bread and butter
Fish fingers, chips and beans and white bread and butter
Stew and dumplings

Salt and sugar.

So Pepsi and crisps. And McDonald’s!

Mug of Bovril

Loving all these. I've been living on chicken soup it seems just right at the moment. I really fancied some fruit this morning which seemed strange. I'm really starting to feel hungry now but get full quickly still.

Tinned peaches.

Boiled egg in a cup with lots of butter.

Pasta in a tomato sauce with lots of mozzarella.

Chunky vegetable soup with bread.
Scrambled eggs.
Frozen raspberries.