Food and Recipes while under Coronavirus quarantine #8

[155etta]

Because of the name of the thread, I thought I'd share that my family has Covid. We were exposed while flying across the country to visit our son. It has been an extremely nasty bout. We are about 23 days out and still cannot smell or taste, so all the Christmas food has been a bust for us this year. I can't wait to be able to smell coffee again! The only things that remotely register are super salty and sweet tastes so it's been a lot of salty french fries and ice cold original Coke. We are actually craving them which is bizarre. We are still experiencing fatigue, congestion, coughing, and heaviness in the chest. So not fun.

 

[killarney rose]

155etta, I hope that you and your family are soon feeling better. And tasting and smelling too.

 

[iamshadow21]

Because of the name of the thread, I thought I'd share that my family has Covid. We were exposed while flying across the country to visit our son. It has been an extremely nasty bout. We are about 23 days out and still cannot smell or taste, so all the Christmas food has been a bust for us this year. I can't wait to be able to smell coffee again! The only things that remotely register are super salty and sweet tastes so it's been a lot of salty french fries and ice cold original Coke. We are actually craving them which is bizarre. We are still experiencing fatigue, congestion, coughing, and heaviness in the chest. So not fun.

Yeah, while I had it I couldn't taste those toasty/caramelly flavours. Coffee just tasted like warm milk to me, so I didn't drink it for a while until it tasted right again.

You're probably already doing this, so feel free to ignore, but try things with markedly different textures and temperature as well, to give sensory variety. Eg. Celery or carrots with a soft dip, chilli with tortilla chips.

 

[snooptroop88]

Because of the name of the thread, I thought I'd share that my family has Covid. We were exposed while flying across the country to visit our son. It has been an extremely nasty bout. We are about 23 days out and still cannot smell or taste, so all the Christmas food has been a bust for us this year. I can't wait to be able to smell coffee again! The only things that remotely register are super salty and sweet tastes so it's been a lot of salty french fries and ice cold original Coke. We are actually craving them which is bizarre. We are still experiencing fatigue, congestion, coughing, and heaviness in the chest. So not fun.

155etta, I hope that you and your family are soon feeling better. And tasting and smelling too.

Agreed, it's really horrible, we had it, too but quite a while back now. But it's memorably bad, we never forgot it.

I wish I'd known about kombucha when we had it because kombucha really, really is good stuff. Some people hate the taste, I actually like it, especially grapefruit kombucha. Most grocery stores have it now, it's not cheap, but it's not horrendously expensive either. It's sort of famous for helping in terms of lung issues, I think. Just looked it up, and they're saying anything fermented (like kombucha, kimchi) might be a plus if you've got Covid.

Weirdly, that whole pandemic scenario was anticipated on none other than an episode of Doomsday Preppers! This lady was going around stocking masks, ventilators, tents, all sorts of equipment. It was uncanny. (She thought it was going to be avian flu, though, if memory serves me correctly.)

I think as I remember I mostly just did Mucinex. It worked, though. That's terrible to have Covid over the holidays, hope you shake it quickly.