Your best cold cures please!

[TrillianAstra]

I have a cold. Yuck.

Currently I am alternating lemsips (actually the beechams equivalent, but lemsip is a bit like hoover IMO) with hot ribena, and planning on cooking curry for dinner. I would like to make chilli but DP has something against kidney beans for some reason.

What else can I do? I get bored if I have to sit over a bowl of anything steaming.

Please help!

whiskey.

or lots of fresh ginger

Thanks for replying, I know I'm being a bit pathetic moaning about a cold.

All the shops likely to have ginger are shut (Tesco Express isn't going to have any, is it?).

We have whiskey, it's 'good stuff' according to DP. Wish I liked it. What goes in a hot toddy?

Pleeeeease won't someone fix me?

Olbas oil/Karvol on a damp flannel hung over your radiator.

DH tends to stick 2 of those vicks inhailors up his nose, so he looks like some kind of mutant elephant.

Hope you feel better soon.

Oh... and avoid dairy... make you more mucus-y.

Avoid dairy? I didn't know that.

Our flat is so well-insulated the radiators only need to come on int he morning at the moment (and I think the people underneath are heating us) so I'll try the radiator thing in the morning.

DP has gone out to get moer lemsip from the shop, and has helpfully suggested that if he gets a burger I can have the chilli that I want. I have to make it of course, because he doesn't like chilli and so wouldn't be able to make it right

Mmm, chilli is lovely. And now Come Dine With Me is on

Curry is good because turmeric is supposed to be good for something or other. I used to work with somebody who had turmeric in warm milk when she had a cold - blah!

Fresh orange juice - although it'sa bugger if your lips are feeling sore and cracked.

Hot toddy can be made with whiskey, hot water, lemon juice and honey - tastes vile though.

Olbas oil v good for stuffy noses.