Healing food

when i was little my mum would boil some fish when we were under the weather - i think it must have been a plaice fillet. she'd skin it and flake it finely mixed with butter. made us feel better instantly!

if she hadn't been shopping then scrambled eggs were presented in a bowl - no toast though.

i'm not a "soupy" person so when i'm feeling ill it's got to be something i can get quickly - i live alone - so it's probably going to be a sandwich of some description or a bowl of cereal or porridge with golden syrup.

Scrambled eggs with chopped baby tomatoes mixed in and a cup of coffee made with all milk (instead of water and milk). Makes me feel better straight away.

Toast and Marmite, and a cup of tea with just a dash of milk.

If I'm feeling up to food it's normally either scrambled eggs, soup or baked beans or spaghetti on toast (pure comfort food!) When I was little, I hated Lucozade except when I had flu when I wolfed it down! - strange girl that I was!!!

I think Galen and I are sisters.....Heinz tomato soup, toast and lashings of very salty butter for me too!

I love chicken and garlic soup when I have a cold also a ginger and rum tea with lemon and honey in it, the only thing I keep away from is chocolate for me it seems to increase the mucus production

My DH swears by a hot toddy too. I always go for a poached egg or something light. My DH can't cook so its always an added incentive to get better soon!

Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon.

My mother used to make bread and hot milk with sugar on it if we were recovering from an illness, served in a pretty bowl.
I couldn't eat it now!

Comfort food, eg mashed potato with lovely gravy.
Or scrambled eggs on toast.

Jalima, my mother made a similar dish, it was known as "pobs ". It was white buttered bread, sugar on top, covered in warm full fat milk. It was only offered when we'd been very poorly - I had it when recovering from scarlet fever and measles, loved it but was refused it when I was better.

The best way to struggle a cold is drink much water and tea ....a lot...

Scrambled egg with cheese or smoked salmon on buttered toast.

Thanks for the tip grandmaz, I'll look out for that. It's interesting to see how many of us revert to the comfort food of childhood when we're under the weather. Although I would have hot Ribena if I've got a cold now, what I actually had as a child was a spoonful of my mum's blackcurrant jam mixed in hot water, maybe she actually invented Ribena?. I can also remember having something called "saps" which I think involved rich tea biscuits, warm milk and sugar...sounds awful now but I loved it then!

I remember 'pobs'. Couldn't eat it when young, and the thought of it makes me feel ill now! My 'poorly' food is Horlicks by the mugful and lots of digestive biscuits to dunk.

We looked forward to being poorly! We slept in Mum and Dad's room which had a coal fire burning! We were fed 'saps' made with buttered bread, warm milk and sugar. Extra special was the warm drink of freshly squeezed lemons, still my go to when under the weather!

Fresh squeezed orange juice, a few spoons of glucose powder, hot water & tot of whisky/Marmite on warm buttered toast or soft boiled egg with soldiers (just like Mum used to do).

Thanks Grandmaz for the info on Ribena Winter Spice. Bought some today, after a tiring jaunt to Reading. Found it in our local Waitrose, and yes it's very good, even DH had some and gave it the thumbs up.