What's your 'go to' get well soon dish?

curiousralphy

Chicken and sweetcorn soup which is easy to get from any local chinese takeaway and is gentle on the tummy
Flat lemonade for drinking, just leave a bottle in the fridge with the lid off (not sprite though, those coca cola and pepsi brands don't work for some reason, whites lemonade is good).

candygirl

Leek n potato soup, or chip butties

Pollycat

Has to be a can of tomato soup - and it must be Heinz.

Kanichen

Cottage Pie is my comfort food, so good choice

You'll be needing high fat to try and build up your energy levels so if you can stomach it, snacking on some nuts or avocado or hard boiled eggs would be very beneficial.

Omelettes with plenty of cheese are another quick easy tasty meal full of fat.

LameWolf

Gem-gem wrote: »

I find it helps to have some emergency foods in the freezer for such times. Things that hubby can defrost and make without much effort if I am unwell.

I totally agree; I have lupus, and one of the problems with this is that the bone-crushing fatigue can hit me like a sledgehammer with absolutely no warning, and if this happens, DH has to do our dins.
His speciality is what he calls "omelette with everything" - basically it contains: diced onion, extra-extra mature Cheddar, frozen peas, diced-up tomatoes, chopped-up Qu0rn bacon-style slices and mixed herbs; all fried up in butter.

I home Kevin and Gem-gem are starting to feel better and get some strength back by now.:o

moneyistooshorttomention

Decent quality soup - ie home-made or, if that's not possible, then a brand like "Covent Garden" from chilled section in supermarket and grate lots of cheese on top of it (for protein and calories).

Baked potato would be little effort - again with lots of grated cheese on top of it.

Decent milk (well - if its deemed a complete food for babies....).
Nice fruit (those grapes that are so traditional at sickbeds).

Eggs (free-range obviously) - also a pretty complete food. Probably the easiest way to do them would be hard-boiled. I just get a saucepan of water to the boil, add egg, wait for it to come to boil again. Turn off hotplate and slap lid on saucepan and wait 13 minutes for it to be ready.

Porridge (easiest way being to soak some jumbo oats overnight in milk) and then it only takes a couple of minutes to cook on a hotplate the following morning. Add "goodness" to it with fruit, seeds, etc.

cbrown372

Pollycat wrote: »

Has to be a can of tomato soup - and it must be Heinz.

I so agree

Or mince and tatties!

DigForVictory

easy & nutritious - m'husband swears by a fried egg sandwich (washed down with strong tea) for most complaints short of a penetrating chest wound.
The teenagers head for fishfinger butties with vinegar &/or lemon juice.
Me, I unite a frozen bag of chicken chunks with a jar of curry sauce, add a splosh of milk & simmer for longer than they recommend & until my sons are hovering like vultures. Or if in the house on my own, have a smoked salmon sandwich. (Noone complains of stinky fish if I hide the evidence so I try to keep some buried in the freezer.)

Comfort food? Rice pudding. Custard. Ice cream. Sometimes with thick fruit cake, sometimes with chopped nuts. Youngest son has a massive weakness for soup with Lots of croutons.

If available, haggis in batter with chips is a dish I will try to get out of my sickbed for. (Last time I fell over, but was propped up to enjoy three mouthfuls.)

Almost whatever the problem, we find adding butter to the food helps.

audigex

+1 for soup here

An easy way to get a ton of veg and nutrients, super-easy to portion depending on how much you want, cheap enough that if you throw some away it doesn't matter.

More importantly it's really easy to eat, and you can just keep heating up another bowl full in a minute or so so you can keep eating rather than waiting for "meal time"

A lot of the time, all you need to do to boost your appetite is to eat something light enough, regularly enough, that your stomach gets used to it and normalises.

Other than that, I think it's a case of "whatever you want to eat" - I wouldn't worry too much about it being the most healthy food in the world as long as you're eating, so just have whatever you fancy right now. A good diet is vital in the long run, and getting some nutrients into you right now is important, but if you want a KFC, eat a damn KFC.

moneyistooshorttomention

One thing I am wondering is what is most important to you OP re choosing the foods you require now.

Is your emphasis more on foods that you feel are "comforting"/you're used to them/etc on the one hand

Or - on the healthiest diet you can to build your body back up again on the other hand?

If it's "comforting" - you've been advised of plenty of options. If its maximum nutrition required - then you need to pick the healthiest options available (so its organic everything/lots of fresh fruit and vegetables and into the health food store to see what superfoods and natural supplements you can find).

Where are you laying your emphasis out of those two things and, if your emphasis is on maximum health and nutrition - can you afford a super-healthy diet (some of these superfoods aren't cheap:eek:).

BTW - do get some decent-quality honey if you can find it anyway - ie raw honey (not the sugar syrup that masquerades as honey so often iyswim). If you were going to have a T*sco own brand honey, for instance, then you might as well just buy some decent-quality "real" icecream instead (eg Haagan-Daz and the like). They've got sugar in too - but at least you'd be getting real food ingredients and lots of calories to build you back up again.