What Can I Eat? Help Please :)

[NOVA Lady]

Hi there

Well, basically I got food posioning and I am finally able to hold down food again. I have been eating plain bread and plain pasta because I don't want to make myself ill again  and something as "flavorful" as tomatoe soup make me hurt pretty badly.

Well I am bored to tears of plain bread and pasta, does anyone have any ideas about what might be OK for me to start eating?

Thanks for any and all suggestions!

[Clara Bow]

Chicken noodle soup, Jell-o, popsicles, beef broth, chicken broth, Gatorade, rice (no butter), saltines...

[Maggie]

Scrambled eggs or oatmeal maybe?

[Clara Bow]

Grits, I forgot grits....

[SunkissableOne]

Applesauce, eggs, pudding, popsicles, unsalted popcorn....I sympathize with you.  I had emergency surgery last spring and couldn't eat for a long time without getting sick.  I basically lived on applesauce and scrambled eggs.

[kingsrings]

Gatorade is really important to replace lost electrolytes. Rice, bananas, applesauce, plain toast, plain chicken broth. These were all recommended to me by the doctor when I've had the flu in the past.

[Xanthia, Maker of fine Tin-foil hats since 2007]

I had horrible food poisioning a few years ago from some resturaunt eggs.

Basically my doctor suggested anything bland that I could keep dpwn, but he suggested pedialite insted of gatoraid because of the sugar, and he said to try to drink an ensure or one of tose pre-mixed carnation instant breakfasts.  That is what got me through the week after when i was able to eat again, it took 2 weeks for me to start feeling human again.

[dawbs]

my doc usually reccomends BRAT diet post ickiness.
Bananans, rice, applesauce, toast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAT_diet

[Heavenly]

Mashed potatoes, rice with a little butter, tapioca pudding (homemade, warm), chicken broth.  These are the foods my kids (and dh) always request after tummy flu and they do pretty well with them.
 

[Sharnita]

I just suffered a bought of food poisoning a couple of weeks ago. Sip ginger ale and maybe Squirt. You probably don't want to eat anything with too much fiber in it. Are you/were you achey? Every joint I had hurt but once I got my fluids up and a little food in me the pain went away. Do you think you could eat cottage cheese? A little thinly sliced turkey or chicken? I would try to stay away from salty foods and sodas that could dehydrate you.

Feel better.

[Bijou]

Hi there

Well, basically I got food posioning and I am finally able to hold down food again. I have been eating plain bread and plain pasta because I don't want to make myself ill again  and something as "flavorful" as tomatoe soup make me hurt pretty badly.

Well I am bored to tears of plain bread and pasta, does anyone have any ideas about what might be OK for me to start eating?

Thanks for any and all suggestions!

I wonder if the tomato soup is irritating.  Maybe try something without tomato in it?  How about some baby foods.  They may be milder.  I didn't realize that food poisoning would make it hard to eat anything, once it had passed. 

[Suze]

I have been told if you drink gatoraid or another sport drink dilute it by half. Something about too much sodium too fast.  That and if it tastes "good" you need it, but if it is all you can do to get it down, you really don't need all the extra stuff that is in it.

try a yourget with a live culture in it - it can help put back the "good bugs" in your system that the "effects" of food poisoning strips from your body.  try to get the ones that don't have chunks of fruit in them

feel better soon

[HogwartsAlum]

When I had the tummy flu as a kid, my mom would feed me lightly buttered toast cut into strips and Seven-up (flat) as soon as I could eat again.  Then Cream of Wheat hot cereal until I could hold down something more substantial.  Cream of Wheat is good because even babies can eat it.

I'm sorry you were sick.  I hope you feel better.

[Clara Bow]

Cream of Wheat!!??? Grits!! Dangit, grits!!
Teehee...

[JoyinVirginia]

Jello, bananas, applesauce. Hope you feel better soon!
Joy in Virginia