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?

Baxters cock a leekie soup and a slice of plain bread, bottle of red lucozade, or if mother in law knows im unwell, her chicken and rice soup with plain bread and lucozade 🥰.

White sliced toast and butter with a cup of tea.

If I’m getting over a stomach bug my first proper meal is always mash potato and spaghetti hoops. If it’s a cold my DH does the most amazing chicken noodle soup. My nanny and grandad as a child would give me sugar on toast although that sounds horrific now.

This soup is literally the most underrated flavour of chickeny goodness EVER!

Generally chicken noodle soup and fruit juice, electrolytes, decaf tea with honey, mint tea with honey, ginger stirred into hot water.

Weirdly if I’m very unwell the only thing I will eat is a Greggs tuna sandwich. It’s what my mum used to feed me as a kid when I was ill and it’s kind of stuck.

Its also my hangover cure 🫣🤣.

If I’m nauseous I can only eat honeydew melon and salted pretzels.
if I’m fluey I like Heinz tomato soup or cully and sully chicken soup!
I’m usually an avid ‘from scratch’ cook but when I’m sick I prefer processed soups

Homemade chicken soup is always the food for the unwell in our house. With garlic bread.

I drink weak tea, but don't eat anything. When I start to feel better I graduate to marmite toast.

Soup, toast.

Cream crackers / Ryvita / Oatcakes / Toast.

Mashed carrots, potatoes, with butter. Tea.

Totally agree re heinz tinned tomato soup or scrambled eggs. In my tonsillitis era, I'd have added pickled onion Monster Munch.

Toast, butter and sometimes honey or tomato soup always hits the spot.

Heinz tomato soup
crisps
pretzels if no crisps

Boiled eggs and toast.

Now I’m really craving tomato soup.

Porridge, a jacket potato or homemade soups.

Heinz tomato soup with a sprinkling of grated cheese on top and toasted soldiers to dip in.

Or homemade minestrone soup with bits of bacon on the top.

Toast and strawberry jam or lemon curd

Chicken soup

Raspberry Jelly

Hope you feel better soon! 🤞

Depends on what we have in of course but I like :
Soft boiled eggs with fish finger soldiers
a cheese omelette. or eggy bread with cheese inside
Fusilli pasta with a spoon of dairy lea or cream cheese stored in
Boiled rice with butter, celery salt & chopped parsley, really love this!
a cheese & ham toastie
ETA : Knorr classic cream of chicken soup , it's the only chicken soup I like , canned stuff is vile

Mum always gave us Heinz tomato soup and white bread toast. That’s still my go to comfort food. It has to be Heinz and white bread.

If I am well enough to stand for
15 minutes, egg drop soup. It’s ridiculously simple, easy on the stomach, and feels nourishing.

it just stock, a few spices and sauces, a bit of cornstarch slurry, and then drop in the scrambled eggs at the end. It’s also something made entirely with pantry staples so I can always have it.

Curry, chilli.

Macaroni cheese is what I fancy right now.

I have a bad cold. 🤒

Heinz soup, usually I like fresh soup but if ill, tin of Heinz tomato or chicken soup, jelly