Hot Ribena

[BigJanette]

I've succumbed to a stinker of an old fashioned heavy cold (like the ones we used to get pre-covid).
Full on snot mode, constant sneezing, runny nose and a fuzzy head.
I've just made myself a hot ribena.
I feel like I'm 10 yrs old again 🙂

What's your comfort food or drink when you're feeling ill?

Egg-in-a-cup was my Mother's stand by for a poorly child, and if you managed to eat that, then you got a small glass of Lucozade as a reward.

Get well soon @BigJanette , try Savlon to soothe your sore nose.

Yes 😂 - it was literally treated like medicine. And I think also pretty expensive, so you always knew you were properly ill when someone was ceremonially sent out for the Lucozade!

Aw my 6 and 3yo both love a warm ribena after a cold school run home.

Heinz tomato soup with a piece of sliced bread torn up into little floating islands! Cures everything😀

I love hot Ribena too. When I’m ill though it’s always hot honey and lemon.

Ribena is yuck now so don't buy it. Hot Robinson's double concentrated blackcurrant is the next best thing. Have it daily during the winter as I don't drink tea/coffee much.

I used to love Ribena until it was ruined by the sugar tax - I can't bear artificial sweeteners

Tomato soup in a mug or rice pudding with chocolate buttons mixed in - so comforting

Oh yes! It has to be ultra processed white bread, with tonnes of real butter on that melts in to soup. I add so much bread my soup becomes a solid 😆

I’ve currently got a proper old skool cold and have just tucked into a fried egg sandwich smothered with tomato ketchup, accompanied by Ribena. Feeling sorry for myself…

Tomato soup with mashed potato in it (does tomato soup have magic healing properties?).

I have hot Ribena at work. I don't drink tea or coffee so I've bought a bottle of Ribena and keep it under my desk.
Then when I'm asked what I was to drink I ask for hot water.
I do have to make sure I wash the cup up before it dries though or it stains.

This post should be reported for heretical extremist views.

Any said against Ribena is clearly blasphemy. 😀

Heinz tomato soup and buttered white bread

Cheese and pickle sandwich on white bread

Farleys rusks and cold milk
Cornflakes with condensed milk and cold milk

At night, a good measure of brandy, brown sugar and warm milk.

Hot vimto and honey.

Lovely when I'm in your position OP although I'll probably have no teeth when I'm an old gimmer.

Get well soon! It's truly a stinker of a virus

I rediscovered hot Ribena when I got covid for the first time. So, yeah, devastating pandemic, but ... swings and roundabouts.

We always had hot Ribena as children.. I can vividly remember being ill and tucked up in my parents huge way off the floor bed, reading a Famous Five book and drinking hot ribena.
Wilfs recently been very poorly with pleurisy and I told him to drink it.

I absolutely love Ribena hot or cold and the lollies that I now make myself as I can’t find them. Hot Ribena is comforting

For original Ribena lovers of when it was more syrupy I have recently discovered Rocks blackcurrant and even better though hard to find Belvoir natural blackcurrant. Pricey but worth it and a tip once bottle is opened keep in the fridge as it’s fresh it can get mouldy (don’t let that put you off)

for comfort food when poorly I love fish in creamy butter sauce with mash, peas and lots of pepper. Yes I mean fish in a bag ☺️ the tray fish in a sauce tastes very very similar

I LOVE hot Ribena. I recently had bronchitis and pneumonia and all I drank for best part of 6 weeks was hot Ribena 😍

Chuck a tot of rum in it. Delightful.

For my DD (21), it's ham and pea soup. I had no idea about this until she was recently ill. My lovely MIL used to have her when she was off school poorly as I'm a teacher. She was off loads because she had tonsillitis at least three times a year, and often got chest infections. MIL used to buy her pea and ham soup, because that's what her mum got for her when she was poorly as a little girl. I thought it was a lovely bit of family history.

My boys always ask for Ben and Jerry's chocolate brownie ice cream.

Oh this sounds so cosy! Wish I was there now!

How are you feeling @BigJanette?!
I’ve been feeling rough since Tuesday night, struggled through work for the week and didn’t leave the sofa all weekend. Thought I was feeling better today but I’ve just done the school run and it’s knocked me for 6! 😩

My mum used to sometimes do hot milk with a spoonful of honey and nutmeg grated over the top. I still find the smell of nutmeg intensely nostalgic. Usually if we were too ill for solid food. For colds: lemon and honey.
For my children it'll be 'Daddy's Feel Better Juice' DH always makes the kids hot lemon and honey with slices of fresh ginger and a clove or two. He makes it for me too and it's the most soothing thing when you're bunged up with a cold.

@Solow12
I’m still Snotty McSnotFace 😭
Really congested but runny nose at the same time, which is weird.
I took it easy over the weekend too but still don’t feel 100%. Life has to go on though so like you, I did the school run this morning and did a quick top up shop and have picked up a pack of Beechams all in one max strength flu capsules - Let’s hope it does what it says on the box!
Luckily I work from home so at least I’m not spreading the germs elsewhere.
Thanks so much for asking, I hope you feel better soon too!