Postmodernista's computer is still in the shop, alas. She'll do her best to host & comment by phone. [ I think that's what she said. I don't have a celfone far less a smartfone so I'm nonconversant ;-) ]
Meanwhile, mettle fatigue is filling in. So, as pretty much all news-watchers/listeners/readers know, this is one of the years the flu shots have not been optimal ...for a number of reasons... so some of us who got ourselfs innoc'd are getting the flu anyway, not to mention a lot of everyone else. What to do, what to do? Well, push fluids, for one thing (it gives the guaifenesin and decongestants something to work with and keeps the antihistamines from drying out the mucosa which is IMPORTANT because dry mucosa is more invade-able by microbes!!!!)...
Let's get virtually together (safe from mutual contagion) below the logobox with Postmod's beautiful artwork, to swap flu-food tried-&-trues, any other food ideas manageable even when feeling awful, and by all means post your favorite links for dealing with flu when it happens.
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My own surefire flu-food is the very silly and extremely effective (at least for me)
Potato-Chick Soup
and I can't recall if I've mentioned it before, so here is the "recipe":
Dump a packet of Lipton Chicken Noodle Cup-A-Soup (delish vegetarian alternative, Lipton Spring Veg Cup-A-Soup, available at drugstore.com if your local stores don't carry it, which mine don't) into a pyrex 2-cup measuring cup in which the microwave has just boiled about 10 ounces of water.
Toss in a small handful of frozen greenpeas to cool it down to safely-hot drinking temp.
Add as much potato chips as the measuring cup will hold, stick a soup spoon in, promptly carry to the tv for the football game (or back to bed) holding it by the handle plus a twice-folded dish towel under it (hot! hot!)(also in case of spills)
and start spooning it into to your pie-hole immediately or the potato chips turn to total mush.
The potato chip crunch and salt help move throat crud safely and non-horribly into the gastrointestinal tract (my doctor swears that flu&cold virus cannot survive stomach acid), the salt helps kill germs, the potato-chip oil vaporizes with the soup steam and helps soothe the upper respiratory tract and throat a bit (or chicken soup would if there was any chicken fat in it, which I haven't seen in any canned or etc brand in years), the peas and noodles together make adequate complete proteins for a few hours, and the fluid is ... fluid.
This gotta be the most unhealthy helpy no-matter-how-weak-&-miserable-U-feel haz-flu/cold recipe going.
A scottish friend of mine with high blood pressure used to recommend hot Earl Grey tea with a big lump of sweet butter melted in, to avoid salt.
What do you recommend? Include all kindsa easy, comforting recipes for the season, flu/cold self-care suggestions, links to other diaries and webpages (pooties&woozles pix are therapeutic too) and whatever else - share with your frenz your helps!