Poorly food

Arrowroot made up like a custard. Once I had this arrowroot custard and it was mauve, not sure what coloured it but it seemed really special.
My M-in-law once bought me some lucozade with the last coins she had left in her purse. The kind thought made me feel so much better.

When I was a student and poorly my flat mate gave me her poorly food - mashed potato in tomato soup! Yuck!

Def had lucozade but don’t remember any special food. I hate eggs and milk so they def wouldn’t have been very welcome!

We were given ( in 1950's - 1960's) broken-up bread with boiling water poured over & an OXO cube sprinkled in.

Oh, I think I might have that on one of these cold days..!!

Another Heinz tomato soup here. My Mum would make this for me and then in turn I gave it to my children when they were ill. We now always call it “poorly soup”

I used to be given mashed up soft boiled egg, which was known in the family, for some reason, as a Billy egg. DH was one for bread and milk with sugar, even after we married.

Am I the only person who has never had a glass of Lucozade? I can not remember ever receiving different food when I had measles, chickenpox etc. My mother did not believe me if I felt unwell- she was a nurse!

I was never a fan of milk or any type of frogspawn type puddings as I called them. I added custard to that list along with fried, poached and coddled eggs.

Bacon sandwiches or mashed potatoes with peas and gravy

My mom would make an egg custard

Heinz tomato soup too - with crisps sprinkled on top!
I don't like milk but my mum had bread and hot milk with sugar. She called it bread pobbies.
Our gp called when my sister was ill and noticed the bottle of lucozade by her bed. He told my mum don't waste your money on that, any liquid will do.

Yes same here! Still have it for breakfast sometimes - nice way to start the day!?

Because I didn't like Heinz tomato soup, my Dad would make me Campbell's mushroom soup with white toasted bread with the crust cut off, if I'd had dental treatment that involved anesthetic.
You have my sympathy, Charleygirl5, my mother had been a nurse. She believed in the power of school - she sent me no matter how ill I was feeling! Then there was the time she diagnosed my broken arm as just a sprain and refused to take me to the doctor's or A&E - eventually my father took me to hospital for an X-ray! My mother was so angry when I came home wearing a plaster cast!

Mum used to make us egg custard when we were poorly or beef broth soup.

Chicken noodle soup, Jewish penicillin, comforts every time.

Lucozade (so much nicer before they changed the recipe) and a cup of Bovril. I still have Lucozade when I am poorly, but it's not the same.

My dad liked "pobs" when he was ill - bread and sugar in warm milk. Yuk.

yes Bluecat, i still have lucozade but it's definitely not the same as it used to be as are so many things, digestive biscuits to name one that springs to mind.
(new thread? things aren't like they used to be?)
my 'poorly food' was lucozade (rarely!), bread and milk or eggnog made by my grandmother, warm milk with a beaten egg and sugar. i used to love it, not sure i would now though.

DD still has soft boiled Eggs in a cup when unwell, her hubby has never really taken to it, or making it for that matter. I get the cry of Muuuuummm.

Oxtail soup or semolina pudding

As a chemist's daughter, as a small girl I wasn't often ill, but when I did catch flu, I was given a big bottle of original Lucozade (lovely orange cellophane wrapper!) Normally I hated the stuff, but it definitely did the job and I felt better quite quickly. Things go round full circle, though and as a Type 1 diabetic, I have been advised by my diabetic clinic to drink a bottle of Lucozade for hypos, especially as most of the soft drinks nowadays are sugar free, defeating the objective! Actually I like real fruit juice or jelly babies, but fruit juice is frowned upon except as hypo treatment and doesn't last too well.

Chopped ham and pork sandwich worked wonders for a sore throat.

I used to suffer a lot with my tonsils when little and the only thing I ever wanted was chicken soup but it had to be on top of sweetcorn and my dad's homemade chips and it always made me feel better

white toast from a pre sliced loaf spread with butter and marmite, but the toast has to be cut into 6 squares., no crusts

EllanVannin

The chopped up eggs in a cup was called coddled eggs at home and that was our poorly food, with soldiers.

What gets me on the road to recovery should the need arise, is porridge.

That's what we called it too. I have childhood memories of coddled eggs, in a particular pale green bone china tea cup but I had no idea what they were, now I know!

Heinz tomato soup is still my poorly food

Oh yes, I remember those mashed eggs!

It is not kind of you to remind me of them, as the sight or thought of them has always made me feel sick.

we were given jelly when we were small and were ill. You could chose whether you wanted red or green or yellow.

Actually, I preferred custard - still do.