What do you eat when unwell?

[Overthebow]

Been unwell with a bad cold for a few days. Haven’t eaten much but am now hungry and unsure what to eat. What’s your sick day comfort meals?

tomato soup and a toasred cheese sandwich. or scrambled eggs on toast if i'm feeling very energetic.
Hope you feel better soonx

Sandwich, toasties, crisps and I build up to a jacket potato.

Buttered toast.
Pesto pasta with cheese.
Ready salted crisps.

Processed white bread, butter and marmalade.

Anything you fancy. It was a cold and (presumably) not gastric so you don’t need to stick to white toast

Pretzels. The salt really helps, especially if your stomach feels off. When I start to feel better I move onto salty carbs like toast and salted butter, pizza, Mcdonalds fries, hash browns

Toast
Crisps
Soup

If I am really ill then little bits of apple and cream crackers, building up to a cinnamon and raisin bagel. With a cold, Heinz cream of tomato soup and buttered toast. And Lucozade.

Start with crackers and a little ginger ale

Progress to Marmite on toast (not much butter)

Then pure foods like a little pear compote

Then home made chicken soup!

You can’t beat it!

Pimp up a supermarket version with a little lemon juice and parsley

Or make at home and keep it in the freezer for occasions like this.

Or just make proper home made chicken stock and keep that in the freezer to form the basis of chicken soup when you next make it

There is a good recipe at the end of this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/jan/13/how-make-perfect-chicken-soup

Live on that for a couple of days; you can’t beat it!

Hope you feel better soon op!

Ooh yes. Me too.

Any kind of home made soup with a cold.

It depends really. I normally eat what I fancy , I wasn't well recently with a virus/covid and I was living off crackers and spreading cheese and pickled beetroot, for a few days, and then I added some melon and strawberries,

so just eat what you want.

For me it has to be easy to eat, so what I call 'fork food'. A good macaroni cheese, tuna pasta, and cottage pie are my favourites. Or just toast.

Toast and marmite

Chicken soup, shop-bought (fresh kind in a tub) with lots of added lemon juice, fresh white bread, maybe buttered.
Scrambled eggs, done in a little bowl in the microwave. Very comforting and nourishing.
I might make myself a baked potato, nice and simple with butter and salt or maybe tuna too if I'm more hungry/at the point where I need flavour.
I sometimes have miso soup as a snack/drink too.

If I’ve got the energy, my favourite comfort meal is minced beef with onions and peas in gravy, served over mash.

In reality it will usually be buttered white toast with a mug of Bovril, or store bought “fancy” soup from the chilled section with a high veg content.

Something spicy usually.

Oh! And Bachelors cheese and broccoli pasta’n’sauce because it’s utter filth and I adore it.

Toast
crisps
fruit
sweet tea
lucazade

Buttery toast with really good bread!

Tinned rice pudding is my go to when I need food but just have no enthusiasm. Always helps.

Banana and custard or banana on toast (although I had a bad experience with a banana so am off them).

Dal and rice
Yoghurt and rice with potato curry (no gravy)
Soup and cheese toast

Poached eggs on toast

Chicken noodle soup with lots of added ginger and chilli in the broth or Lentil daal, rice and spinach. If I’m really not in the mood to cook, beans on toast with grated cheese.

I know I'm getting ill when I start craving tinned rice pudding. Sadly, the dairy-free version (which was perfect) seems to have disappeared, so now I just have to recognise I'm about to be ill without my comfort food 😢 Heinz Big Soup comes in a poor second, but at least I can get it.

Recovering always makes me need a ton of carbs, OP, so it's cake all the way!

Feel better soon.

The lady who said tinned tomato soup or scrambled eggs on toast - they are exactly mine - I will also add in Jason’s sourdough crumpets with butter and a poached egg on top