Poorly food for poorly people. What you eat when feel unwell?

SandwichShortOfAPicnic

SandwichShortOfAPicnic

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Soup and noodles have been mentioned on CB as food people eat when they’ve been unwell.
I love chicken soup when I’m feeling under the weather.
My mum however thought a bar of Bournville chocolate flung from the door onto the bed (best stay away from any germs) was good sick person fodder 😂

What did you get given to eat as a child when you were sick?
Has it stuck and are there other things you choose now that make you feel a little bit better?
 
When I was young, my mother fed us a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup. Not just any sandwich and soup. The sandwich was made on fluffy white bread, what we used to know as Wonder Bread, with a slice of Kraft American cheese, what we currently call plastic cheese. Buttered with margarine (we never had real butter), and fried in the skillet. The soup was Campbells Condensed soup, diluted with water (sometimes half water and half milk). To us, it was comfort food and always made you feel better.

Fast forward about 50 years. I was home alone, very sick, and a friend asked if she could bring me anything. I spoke up, and she delivered to my door 1 can of Campbells soup, 1 package of Kraft Singles, and 1 loaf of Wonder Bread. I cooked the soup and sandwich, expecting to feel all warm and comforted. Not so! Sometimes memories are better left in the past. It was horrible, and barely passed for food. I threw the rest out and never craved it again.

Now when I have the ughs I use my mother's other remedy. A hot toddy, made with honey, lemon, whiskey, and boiling water. That one still works!
 
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As a child, Campbell's chicken noodle soup and Saltines mostly. Sometimes, I'd get the tomato soup and grilled cheese SS described. Funnily enough, I found myself craving that a few evenings ago.

As an adult, I'll either buy or make a quick chicken noodle, or buttered noodles or pasta with or without grated ParmR, or even lightly buttered rice, or, oddly enough, sushi, a vegetable roll or a shrimp or crab roll, no raw protein when not feeling well. I tried it once after my dad told me of an idea he had when his step SIL brought home a Korean bride after military service and western Kentucky food wasn't agreeing with her at all. There was 1, just 1, chinese restaurant in the area they lived in so daddy went and bought several dishes for her. That did the trick. She needed to mix in food she was used to so her tummy could acclimate.
 
Same as some have mentioned - Campbell’s tomato soup and grilled cheese on white bread, or Campbell’s chicken noodle soup and peanut butter on white bread (no jam!).

Mom would always add that ginger ale with the bubbles stirred out was supposed to be good for your stomach, but we never had ginger ale at home. That was the pop of the well-heeled. :laugh:
 
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