What are your ‘I’m poorly’ foods

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In bed with Covid, can’t do much, don’t really want to eat but feel I have to be proactive about it so just had sour dough bread and honey washed down with kombucha.
What I really want is hot Ribena and rich tea biscuits.
What helps you when you are poorly!

Soup (chicken, chicken noodle or chicken and vegetable) with white bread and butter

McDonald's. Every time

Heinz tomato soup and cheese in toast

Chicken Soup

Salted Crisps

These aren't things I eat at all in any other circumstance, wouldn't even say I particularly rate them so I'm really not sure what it's all about - some forgotten childhood throwback perhaps.

Either way it's cheese and ham sandwiches squashed down quite flat (not even the good quality kind - cheap white bread, cheap ham), tinned raspberries in strawberry jelly, a small bottle of Lucozade original and plain digestive biscuits.

Scrambled egg in a warm, white pita bread. Nice and soft and bland.

Weetabix mashed up with warm milk and sugar.

If coldy, hot honey and lemon with a tot of whisky.

I now want cheesey mashed potatoes and a boiled egg.
You can keep your tomato soup, I can’t even open the tin!

Rice pudding

Chocolate brownie ice cream. Actually i want it every day but I know i mustn't, my guard drops if I'm feeling poorly

Angel Delight
Chucky Egg with white bread and butter
vanilla ice cream
lucozade or dandelion & burdock

I wish I had a tin of Heinz Cream of Chicken or a tin of Ambrosia rice, I’m poorly at the moment but live in a country where these aren’t available 😭

Making do with yoghurt and home made tattie soup.

Depends on the illness -

After a vomiting bug I have scrambled eggs, dry toast, sometimes an ice lolly.

For nausea it's fizzy lemon, Iced water.

For anything coldy is got to be soup either tomato or chicken, chicken korma, ice cream.

Homemade veg soup - always blended white thick white bread and butter.

Flat lemonade - preferably 7up

Heinz chicken & mushroom or tomato soup with plain bread & butter. Has to be plain bread

Scrambled egg on buttered toast. Always.

Tinned chicken soup.
Plain toast.
Salt and vinegar crisps.

My go to is proper Scottish porridge made with water and salt, with a mug of ice cold whole milk - reminds me of my early years in Scotland.

Occasionally just a bowl of cornflakes will do it. Whole milk again, instead of my usual skimmed.

It's probably the only time I don't fancy sweet stuff.

Heinz tomato soup, but only the NZ variety, which tastes like the UK one. The Aussie Heinz Big Red is horrible

Hot Vimto

Kellogg’s corn flakes, semi skimmed milk and a sprinkling of sugar.

Snap. And you gotta have thick buttered white bread.

White bloomer toast with real butter and a cup of tea
Plain crackers, maybe with some cheddar or jam
Marmite on white toast
Warm squash with lemon and honey
Black tea with lemon and honey
If I'm more adventurous, homemade chicken broth packed with veg, other homemade veggie soup or Heinz tomato soup

Keep a hot water bottle near your chest, it really helps.

And Cadbury's plain Dairy Milk when I'm on the mend, presumably I crave them to get some energy back fast.

Heinz cream of chicken soup. Occasionally interspersed with Heinz cream of tomato soup. Yum.

Heinz cream of tomato soup with doorstep fresh bread made into a cheese sandwich 👌🏻 I’ve never had an illness this didn’t make my mouth water!

Super noodle sandwiches here. With a thick layer of butter, on cheap white bread. Bonus points if the southern fried chicken ones but if not chicken

Plate of proper buttery mashed potato with a hot chocolate. My other half is awesome when he sees a bad day and making my comfort food and drink