h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've had a cold since Friday. I spent most of the weekend in bed. On Saturday evening, I told myself that I really ought to eat something, so I dragged myself up and was astonished at how dizzy I was. I groped my way to the sink, clinging to walls, brushed my teeth, and headed for the kitchen, still feeling groggy. I knew I had some food in the house, including some fresh veg, but I also knew I didn't feel up to cooking anything. Also, I had breakfast cereal, but no milk. (Anyway, I recall hearing that milk makes you more congested when you have a cold, though I don't know whether that's true.)

So I sat down and looked bleary eyed around the kitchen. Ah, TUC crackers. Possibly not the healthiest food, but certainly the easiest. Three crackers later, I was awake and alert, and strode across the room to fetch the bread knife and everything else I needed for assembling cheese sandwiches. I don't know whether it was the salt content, or simply the psychological effect of having eaten *something*, anything, but those three crackers made a massive difference.

The cheese sandwiches probably helped too. I had some weird stuff from Cadbury: Phili cheese with chocolate. I'd bought it out of curiosity. I thought it would be mainly Phili cheese with little grains of chocolate in it. Instead, it was a chocolate spread, which looked like Nutella and tasted similar, though a little less rich. There was no discernible cheese flavour at all. Tasty enough, as these things go, I suppose. Also, I had some rather good sheep cheese from a local farm. (That was through work: we manage their website, and they occasionally give us some produce.)

I ended up finishing the crackers. I still have the cold today, though it's much improved over yesterday. Back to work tomorrow.

TRiG.

I think the choc philly tastes like chocolate cheesecake

I reckon the bit of energy in the crackers was sufficient to boost your system after a day of no energy, but the salt probably did help too.

Sorry to hear you have to work tomorrow (my company closed down until the New Year, so I have a few more days off yet ). I hope you feel better tomorrow, anyway

I should think twice about going to work if it means going in and spreading germs, so others get ill too. Then you'll be OK and everyone else will be off ill, so you have to do their work for them. Which will exhaust you and set you back and you might end up in the pre-TUC state again. Vicious circle.

can't beat a dose of carbs into the system to give you a bit of energy.

Hope your feeling much better! Happy new year m8!

Was desperate ill earlier this year myself, tray of flapjacks helped me out of a sticky situation.