How about some nice bowls of Asian-style noodle soup? Get some canned chicken broth, add veggies (I like baby bok choy/napa cabbage, scallions, mushrooms), cook up some linguini or other noodle-like pasta and add that to the soup. Or miso soup would be a nice change of pace from the Progresso.

tea is great, too...I especially like peppermint...it feels soothing in your throat.

I made a great corn soup last time I had a nasty cold (yummy, huh epi - he tasted it). Plenty of coriander and cumin, and it was both comfort food and head-clearing.

i love tea, and aside from peppermint i drink ginger tea which is really helpful.

ow I have a throat infection which at this moment I can feel working its way to my ear. I havent really eaten anything since thursday nothing sounds nice as well as my throat hurts and its all I can do to get the damn pills down.

Feel better soon.

ETA: A good way to help your throat feel better is to put a few (2-3) drops of tea tree oil in a tablespoon of honey. The honey coats the throat, and the tea tree oil acts as an antiseptic.

When I'm sick I like all sorts of herbal teas with honey- I always keep peppermint and chamomile around. Depending on how I'm sick depends on what I want to eat. Lemon Sorbet is good for a sore throat. And good old jello (yes I know what's in it, but I still like it) is good for everything. If you are a little weary of old fashoned jello, you can get some seaweed thickened substitute at health food stores which are a close subsitiute in the pre made varieties (which I can't eat because I'm allergic to apples) and a little farther away substitute in the boxed varieties. If it's a stomach upset I like popcorn- well I always like popcorn, but it doesn't usually upset my stomach when I am sick. Crackers, tomato soup and so on also help. Right now I'm drinking hot chocolate since my stomach has settled down.

(I know about the phelmy stuff, I was a voice major in college. One of my professors once gave me a talking to about how to talk above the sore throat to keep from damaging my voice, scary)

Try slippery elm tea, if you can get it. Or if you're close to a Chinatown, there's nothing better than Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa - it looks like disgusting black tar in the bottle, but it's the most incredible, wonderful, soothing thing. It's mild enough to be taken by healthy folks too - I used to have a dorm-mate who took it every day. You can take it plain, or stirred into hot water.

And I've just been caught by the cold that's been chasing me all week, so I'm off to get me a spoonful of Pei Pa Koa in hot water.

I'll post a recipe for rice porridge when I'm feeling more up to it.

My mom used me make me drink hot water with a shot of whisky and some honey. It really did make the throat feel better. I was thinking maybe add the whisky to hot tea to get some antioxidants with your booze.

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Originally posted by fowlerjenn:
Ginger and peppermint are both supposed to be good for upset stomachs. . .

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Originally posted by Piglover326:
Help I have an upset stomach have any tips of what to eat?

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My strategy for recovering from an upset stomach is as follows:
- never force yourself to eat if you're not hungry. If you feel ill at any point, stop eating and revert to step 1.

1- start with water, cool but not cold, in tiny sips
2- then flat lemon soda and herbal tea (ginger and mint are good)
3- then canned fruit (it has to be canned... easier to digest) or apple puree and wheat thin crackers
4- then maybe plain white rice, pasta with butter, white bread without the crusts. Some easy to digest carbs to get some calories in my system.