What is your favourite poorly food?

My Mother's special meals for poorly children were either Heinz Cream of Tomato soup with a small mound of mashed potato in the centre of the bowl - strangely delicious - or steamed plaice with mashed potato and peas.

Mashed potatoes with lots of butter on top.

Chicken soup with orzo or small pasta shapes is what I like

Mashed potato withnan egg on top, every time

Scrambled eggs
Homemade vegetable soup
Stewed apples

I have PinkCosmos!! See my post upthread. The same thing, but we just called it bread and milk rather than pobs. I must admit though, I had forgotten that the bread was buttered.

PinkCosmos

My father used to suffer a lot with tonsillitis. He swore by 'pobs'.

This was white buttered bread broken or chopped up and put in a cup with sugar and hot milk. It had its own particular smell.

I don't know anyone else who has heard of it.

I think pobs are a north of England thing and I might have misremembered the butter. I don't think it had butter in it.

I also love eggs chopped up in a cup with butter. As others have said , it has to be in cup

Baby rusks softened in warm milk! :-)

My father used to suffer a lot with tonsillitis. He swore by 'pobs'.

This was white buttered bread broken or chopped up and put in a cup with sugar and hot milk. It had its own particular smell.

I don't know anyone else who has heard of it.

Definitely 'dippy' eggs chopped up in a cup with soft toast soldiers

Tea and toast with butter and honey

Mine is Farley’s rusks. My sister was a baby when I first had them after an upset tummy and not eating. My mum said I’d get better quickly because they were full of vitamins. Now they are my go to, so long as there is someone to get them for me. I find them really comforting 😊

tidyskatemum

Heinz tomato soup, though you practically need a bank loan to buy a can now!

Mine too. Must be heinz!!

When I was grieving after mum's sudden death I stopped eating. One day my aunt arrived with a flask of homemade veg soup. It did the trick. I felt loved again.

For me it has to be scrambled egg and my mums cure all, lucozade

Hot lemonade and a slice of bread and butter and Bovril on top.

Boiled potatoes mashed up with Oxo gravy. My Nan always gave us this when we were poorly as children. Still does the trick today!

Oh dear, this was meant to be a new thread. I’m not quite sure how to do it though! 🫢

After reading the thread on what is your go to food when poorly, I’d just like to ask has anyone had a change in tastes after a bout of Covid? I’ve never really had a sweet tooth, always opting for the cheese board insteadof a sweet desert, but since Covid, I’m eating so much sweet stuff. I’ve gone off so many savoury foods. Love M&S trifle. 😋

I’m another for boiled egg and soldiers. My lovely mum used to cut the crusts off the bread too. If I have an upset tummy it’s generally water until I feel I can eat, then it’s a bowl of porridge with hazelnut milk.

Heinz Cream of Chicken Soup (must be Heinz)
with
Lightly buttered toast (must be thin, ready-slice bread)

Home made lemon curd on fresh bread or a poached egg. Unfortunately I have developed an intolerance to egg. So they are off the menu.

Marmite on toast cut into four squares with the crusts cut off!

It depends on what the illness is really, but I do remember as a 14 year old suffering with a very severe bout of tonsillitis whilst on holiday in Cornwall. I ate virtually nothing nothing for a week but my first meal of choice was a picnic on the beach with cornish pasties from the local bakery. I had just taken one bite when a seagull flew down and ripped the rest of it out of my hand. My siblings' pasties were completely untouched by the seagulls, luckily I had a lovely dad who went back to the bakery and got me another.

Chips & baked beans.

Tuna fish pie.

After 2 doses of Covid, my sense of taste was affected, and many of the things I used to eat happily just didn’t appeal. My husband kept buying stuff that could just be put in the over, like ready meals and pizza. Jacket potatoes with a salad and cheese would go down OK. I had to start leaving any food I couldn’t face.