What's Your Go-To Comfort Food When You're Sick?

So here's the fun thing I did most of the weekend (and all of yesterday): I was sick! Again! It's a head-cold-shaking-hands-with-the-sinuses thing--you know the kind, where you feel like your head is wrapped in a quilt and the world has a weird "this-could-be-a-dream" quality to it? Wanting to feel better, there was really only one food that appealed to me...

...cookies. Specifically, I wanted homemade, fresh-from-the-oven oatmeal-chocolate-chip-peanut-butter cookies. They're my mom's recipe, and the food I most crave when I'm feeling icky and in need of comfort. I didn't end up baking any of the crave-worthy cookies this weekend (not that I could have tasted them if I had).

But it made me think about "sick" foods that actually might have ingredients that help us feel better:

• Chicken soup: it may have anti-inflammatory and mucus-thinning effects.

• Orange juice: taking a bunch of vitamin C once you're already sick probably won't help anything, but loading up before your symptoms bloom may shorten the length of the cold.

• Hot water with honey: liquids like water, juice, clear broth or warm lemon water with honey "helps loosen congestion and prevents dehydration."

Tell me yours! What's your go-to comfort food when you're not feeling so hot?

More on colds and flu (boo!):

• Can Being Cold Actually Cause A Cold?

• The Flu May Be Nasty This Year: Will You Get The Shot?

The Surprising Thing Every Woman Can Do to Stay Healthy During Cold and Flu Season

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