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What do you eat when you're sick?
August 18 | Comments (2)
My wife is feeling a little under the weather and that got me thinking about the things we eat when we're sick. She likes Tomato soup, so that's what we had last night. I'm more traditional when I get sick, here's a few things I like:
1. Soup. Preferably chicken noodle, or if you really want to kill that cold Tom Yum Gai. Apparently Drs. B. Rennard, Ertl, Gossman, Robbins and S. I. Rennard. have proved that chicken soup does indeed make you better. They've even listed out store brands to help you choose the most effective remedy.
In order of effectivness:
Knorr's Chicken Flavor Chicken Noodle
Campbell's Home Cookin' Chicken Vegetable
Campbell's Healthy Request Chicken Noodle
Lipton's Cup-o-soup, Chicken Noodle
Progresso Chicken Noodle.
2. Honey. Take a spoon full when you've got a sore throat or a cough. Mix it with some hot water and some lemon juice as a decongestant. It's natural, tasty and it works.
3. Flat ginger ale. If you're praying to the porceline god, nothing helps calm the stomach quite like flat ginger ale. Maybe it's the ginger, or maybe it's just because it's the only thing that will stay down. Either way, it'll give you back some of the salts you've lost by heaving into the bowl.
4. The B.R.A.T diet. Bananas, Rice, Apples, Toast. All easy on the stomach.
5. Orange juice. This one's only for colds and better for prevention rather than a cure. The vitamin C keeps the nasties at bay, and the cold liquid is soothing.
6. Whiskey. 1 shot. Sleep. Repeat.
BTW. If you've got man flu, there's absolutely nothing you can do to make it better as we all know that it's the worst type of cold to get.
Comments
I remember the A in BRAT standing for Applesauce?
At our house, if you have a respiratory ailment that just won't go away, the last resort before antibiotics is to pour a cup of fresh OJ into the blender, add maybe a half-inch of fresh ginger, grated, four or five cloves of garlic and a good shake of cayenne... whiz it up, and gulp it down (do NOT pause for breath, or you won't finish it!).
Posted by: katje Sabin | August 23, 2006 9:02 PM
Yeah, i've read that also...but i've always refered to it as apples.
You're drink sounds revolting.....
Posted by: folkmann | August 31, 2006 10:53 AM