Campbell's soup and crackers.

Tea or Cocoa

Corn flakes or Cheerios with whole milk and one teaspoon of sugar.

Bananas

Little kid food, I guess.

Tea

cinnamon and sugar on toast

Eggs and toast...soft boiled is best, but I'd settle for fried.

sausage and grits (plain)

Chicken noodle soup and oyster crackers

Cinnamon Toast or just plain lightly buttered toast.

My Mom used to fix us Milk Toast...but I couldn't get that down anymore. (Toast with warm milk poured over it in a bowl with just a little butter and/or a small

bit of sugar. But, it seemed to be doable when I was a kid not feeling well.

Campbell's chicken noodle soup, any kind of tomato soup, applesauce and ginger ale. And hot tea with lemon and honey....the only time I put anything in my tea!

Campbell's chicken noodle soup. In my soup mug. I know it's full of salt, but it's just what I need when I am ailing. Always makes me feel better. That's for general malaise and/or anything which affects my sinuses since that's a fight I have daily. If it's cold, a sinus infection, it's hard for me to endure.

Unless it's my gut, then it's water and a piece of bread eaten one slow bite after another. Once and entire piece of bread stays down, I'll get more daring, like yogurt.

Chicken noodle soup. Used to like Campbells but these days, their overcooked mushy noodles no longer appeal to me. Lipton's dry chicken soup is what I like now or homemade.

Vegetable beef soup

Saltine crackers

Mashed potatoes and gravy

White rice with butter and salt

Plain noodles, spaghetti or macaroni with butter and salt

Hot Tea

Toast and honey

I really don't like to eat when I am sick. I just don't want anything. I eat whatever is fast and calorie dense because I know I need to eat. And it's usually not good for me food. I always lose weight when I get sick,even with just a cold.

I am not feeling well now. Not sick, just exhausted and run down and sore and I feel like I cannot get enough sleep. Lucky for me I made a pot roast yesterday and there are leftovers to eat and I don't have to fiddle with anything. I don't want it or anything else, I hate leftovers, but I will eat it when SO does because i know i need to eat SOMETHING.

I hope you feel better soon Amylou

I cook a package of ramen noodles in low or no sodium chicken broth, then add about 1/4 tsp (or less) of the seasoning that comes in the little packet.

I like a small bowl of chilled mandarin orange segments in their own juice. I buy a big jar.

Hot tea

Real ginger ale if I have an upset tummy, which is rare. It’s the only time I drink a carbonated beverage.

Cinnamon toast or toast with honey

Hot and sour soup

Vanilla ice cream with walnuts, caramel sauce, chocolate sauce and whip cream .

Campbell tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwich.

Potatoes anyway. French fries, mashed, baked, home fries.

Bacon

Toast, eggy rice, ginger ale. Thankfully I'm not often sick.

Mashed potatoes and gravy.

Chicken soup from the local deli. Toast. Applesauce. Twining's Lemon & Ginger tea.

Applesauce, Gatorade, home made chicken soup (commercial soups are too salty for me), Jello.

Another Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup.

And Sprite.

I keep both of those on hand ALL the time.

amylou....hope you feel better...soon!

Met too....Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup. Saltine crackers. Ginger ale.

If I just have a cold....Mexican food, hot & spicy to clear my sinuses.

I don't know if I'd like this when I'm sick, but Costco carries a lentil soup in pouches that I like.

Instant potatoes doctored up with butter, salt, and cheese... and green onions and bacon if I'm up to it.

Instant or regular rice with cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup

cilantro lime rice

rice with chicken bouillon instead of salt

Cilantro lime rice chicken soup.

This sounds like a cop out, but the last time I was sick was in 2010.

I had a lung infection and I thought I was going to die. I couldn't have opened a can of soup, if I wanted to.

But if I was sick, but wanted to eat, I would probably fix chicken and dumplings, or my favorite soup, which is sausage, potato and cheddar. I do recall that when I was really sick, Jody went to a Chinese restaurant that was owned by a friend, and she sent me some wonton soup.

I always have Vernors ginger ale on hand. I'm not a fan of canned soups but through the winter I always have a couple of cans of chicken noodle soup for just in case and its mainly for the broth.

I always keep cubes of homemade chicken broth in the freezer so it is easy to make egg drop soup with super fine noodles. Potato soup is another easy go to. I loved that Campbells chicken noodle when I was a kid. I doubt I could eat it now.

Hot shredded wheat biscuit with butter, a fried egg on top, and some salt.

IDK what it is about that Campbell's chicken noodle soup........I never have it unless I am feeling awful but always have a can on hand in case of an emergency :-) But it has something that appeals and immediately makes me feel better.

To be perfectly honest, I prefer it to homemade when ill.

Warm jello before it sets up. Chicken noodle soup. Toast.

Good thread, Lucille.

I crave egg drop soup from my nearest Chinese restaurants when I am not feeling up to par. It is delicious. Second to that and when I am starting to feel hungry, I want chicken pho from a fabulous Vietnamese restaurant in my city.

Other than that, ginger chamomile tea, hot cereal like rice, wheat, oatmeal, etc. make me feel better. I also love fresh fruit and plain yogurt as I feel like eating.

I used to love Campbell's CN soup but have become super sensitive to sodium, probably hypersensitive.

Ginger tea with honey. Buttered pasta of some sort. I used to keep homemade chicken soup in the freezer in individual servings, but I haven't made any for a while. I guess it's time to make a potful.

Like marilyn, I'm pretty lucky. I can't remember the last time I was actually sick-sick. No flu, no colds, no anything else in as long as I can remember. I do get a flu shot every year but I don't know whether that helps. Never a reaction to an immunization.

Every year or two I may be hit by itchy eyes and a runny/stuffy nose. The trigger always seems to be an allergic reaction to something because a dose of antihistamine for a few days (like Xyxal) seems to bring it to an end.

What food? It doesn't matter.

I can relate to some of the little kid food being comforting, but the Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup just sounds blasphemous to me. It's got to be homemade chicken soup. tons of dill, tons of garlic,.Dh is a big fan of it, and I always make sure we have small containers ( I call them dose-packs) in the freezer. It is as they say the Jewish Penicillin.

Hope you all feel better.

I always crave tuna salad when I'm not feeling well.

I don't usually drink soda but after seeing Vernor's mentioned above, it might be good to have some in the house in case of illness. It really is delicious.

I haven't had flu in decades, but have had bronchitis twice in 25 years, and shingles and colds. My sick foods are

Graham crackers (broken into 1" squares) in milk.

Jello.

Milk shakes if someone makes it.

Number one is egg salad fresh and warm on soft white bread. Boiled eggs I prefer soft boiled. Gumbo and rice. Homemade vegetable soup.

Rhizo, that is funny. My mom use to give us a small glass of wine or rock & rye in the evening when we were sick . I think it was just to put us to sleep so we would quit whining.

When I had the H1N1 influenza a few years ago and thought and felt like I was going die I didn't care about food or eating. The only thing I could tolerate was Vernors, black tea or water, Popsicles and Jello. Friends sent over buckets of homemade chicken soup and it just went into the freezer. I am good with having bananas and toast on hand when I am sick as long as I have tea or Vernors to drink with it.

Another fan of Lipton's dried chicken noodle soup and saltines. I know it has lots of sodium, but it's what I want when I'm sick. I used to like Campbell's chicken noodle in a can but it tastes like nothing to me now.

A memory from long ago....

I had bronchitis and stayed home from school.

My dad made me soft boiled eggs and toast.

I absolutely dislike soft boiled eggs but I choked it down.

Next day, still very sick. My dad made the same thing and I choked it down, gagging with every bite.

I decided I would go to school no matter what.

My dad was.very soft hearted and I knew if I told him I hated eggs, his feelings would be hurt.

But it was a loving gesture.

Funny story ... many years ago I was sick, probably the flu. I asked DH to go to the store for some soup. I was on the couch when he returned, and he asked me where did I want the soup? Um, in the pantry cupboard. Wait, what did he do?

I hauled myself off the couch, to find that he'd looked at the display, and bought two cans of everything that looked good. I think he came home with 24 cans of soup.

My go-to food is scrambled eggs. With toast if I don't have a sore throat. And green tea.

(Such sweet, well meant gestures, roy and aok!)

I am surprised nobody said Macaroni and cheese. I find it so comforting, always have.