Feed a cold, starve a fever

I caught a nasty cold last week and I spent a few days doing absolutely n-o-t-h-i-n-g except watching trashy tv, drinking soda water and tea.  I didn’t deliberately starve myself, but I had no appetite and couldn’t be bothered to do much in the kitchen.

Eventually, I settled on a smoothie–I had plain yoghurt in the fridge and left-over-from-summer frozen raspberries and strawberries in the freezer. It was refreshing and felt so nice on my throat.

Much to my chagrin, I also ate some garlic cloves.  An ex-boyfriend of mine used to swear by garlic. If he had even the hint of a sniffle, he’d start swallowing garlic by the handful. At first I was skeptical…partly because I didn’t want it to work. I hated the idea of swallowing that much garlic, but I hated the idea of being stinky even more.

Anyway, I still suffered the rotten cold, but I did swallow some garlic along the way and I have to admit that I feel so much better now. To be fair, I also slept A LOT.

And now I am so ready to get active and get outside–I can’t wait for sunshine and warm weather.