# What Do You Eat When You're Sick? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413 "2010-03-05T14:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413/41 "2010-03-06T06:00:49Z")
Veggie broth with tons of garlic and Sriracha sauce. Oatmeal. My Mom’s potato soup. Screwdrivers! Egg salad sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413/42 "2010-03-06T06:53:43Z")
Depends what sort of sick I am. A cold with a stuffed up nose? Spicy stuff (Vietnamese, chili) or hot soup (generally French Onion) and lots of tea and hot lemon drinks. Really sick, that I don’t want any food because I feel ill at the thought? Usually saltines and chicken broth. Not chicken noodle soup, just the broth and again lots of tea and hot lemon drinks and some flat ginger ale. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413/43 "2010-03-06T07:32:59Z")
Jumping on the Hot Soups of Asia bandwagon, when it’s a head cold. Also grilled cheese sandwiches. When I’m too sick to have an appetite, but know I have to eat so I don’t pass out or somesuch, instant oatmeal- no chewing, just gulp it down. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413/44 "2010-03-06T12:30:07Z")
If I’m really sick, I just stay in bed and sleep. I get up to drink fluids and use the toilet and then go back to sleep. No food until I feel up to eating. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413/45 "2010-03-06T14:54:41Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > > [@squeegee](#): > > > > Hot and sour soup. Mmmmmm. > > This I’ve started getting this from the nearby Chinese restaurant when I have a cold (we always get it when we order from there also). Thought I was being original. Spicy to get that stuffed up nose running and cleared out. I also like Peppridge farm Chessmen cookies. To drink, Elmo juice, but we can’t find it anymore. Yeah, the Sesame Street character. 100% juice: white grape, cherry, and arronia berry (AKA chokeberry, but they won’t call it _that_ on the ingredient list). ---
**Author:** ![Neverending\_Elbow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e274bd/32.png) [@Neverending\_Elbow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neverending_Elbow)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413/46 "2010-03-06T15:38:28Z")
McDonald’s. Tastes the same when I’m sick as when I’m healthy. Apart from that I like spicy crispis, instant soups (preferably with some tabasco) and some hot tea to wash it all down. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413/47 "2010-03-06T15:41:28Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413/48 "2010-03-06T17:12:52Z")
Weak tea, flat ginger ale, chicken soup (homemade, please!). ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413/49 "2010-03-06T17:24:02Z")
I tend to stick to clear soups, Jello and Sprite, ginger ale or tea with sugar and progress to crackers and toast. This way, I’m not overtaxing my system, I’m getting fluids, and they come up as easily as they go down. 😉 If it’s just a cold, I don’t eat anything special. I just make sure I get more fluids. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413/50 "2010-03-06T17:25:41Z")
I’ll be the fourth to say hot and sour soup. Mine has to be from Sun Wah on Broadway (formerly on Argyle) in Chicago, nothing else will do. ---
**Author:** ![justafriend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@justafriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justafriend)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413/51 "2010-03-06T22:24:36Z")
7-UP or Sprite (or maybe juice) Soup broth Crackers Jell-O Hot and sour soup sounds like a great idea. I’m sure I won’t remember it when I’m actually sick, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-eat-when-youre-sick/531413.md?page=2)