Bleh.

[mrissa]

While I am glad that I have health insurance, glad that I can get in for a physical even despite flu season, glad that we are not ignoring the ongoing vertigo, etc., I have to say that fasting before a blood draw and doing vertigo PT were not the best combination. I am now in the seriously nauseated stage of hungry. Anybody with some theories for breakfast, a mid-morning snack, or early lunch? Usually the first thing I eat in a given day is in a very set pattern, so I don't have to make decisions with low blood-sugar. This is, it turns out, a good way to have things arranged in general, and ought not to be underestimated. Seriously. What food is edible today? Inquiring Mrissas want to know.

Comments

[rosefox]

Peanut butter on toast or crackers. Bland, with plenty of protein and sugar.

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

Yes. That is my default for when I have low blood sugar, but with a glass of milk to get some dissolved sugars into your bloodstream quicky without being so sugary you'll crash in 30 minutes.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I was going to say a turkey sandwich - because of the protein in the turkey.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

For an upset stomach my mom served buttered saltines, and if the tummy settled, saltines with pb or cheese, then working up to toast/soup. YMMV

Lately my upset stomach meal is a can of slimfast shake since whether it stays down or not the "eating" is over in 30 seconds and I can get to distracting myself from being ill. Hello Intar-webs!

[ckd]

Hard-boiled eggs, but only if you can get them quickly and easily. (Since I don't think you have a salad bar in the house, this may be problematic.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No, we have no salad bar--it was that or the two-story glass-ceilinged library, and you know our priorities. Well, as with many things this way, we wound up with neither. But we still knew our priorities.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

English muffins with either lemon curd or peanut butter and a friend's first batch of jelly.

[laurel]

Ice cream, obviously.

(That's always the answer, isn't it?)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am suddenly noticing that I have never seen you and my dad in the same place at the same time. Hmmmmmmm.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

Grapenuts!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You are correct, that is the most basic form of Mrissa Chow.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Yogurt. Preferably Cherry-vanilla.

[carbonel]

Good suggestions below already, and the questions is probably now moot.

But for me in that situation, the most important thing would be that someone who is not me prepare the food. There are times when I can eat food if it's put in front of me, but can't possible contempate actually making it, even something as simple as proudly burning the toast most carefully.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

Peanut butter crackers are my go-to food.

If peanut butter crackers sound too much like food, perhaps a warm beverage? Broth, or perhaps start with a cup of tea and see if you can work up from there.

If you have gingersnaps or crystallized ginger around, does a bit of that sound appetizing?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We do have some ginger chews for the vertigo-related nausea, but as good as they've been for me, they are just not the thing right now.

[redbird]

Chicken soup. Not the sort of rich, hearty soup our grandmothers might boast of, but chicken broth with not too much fat, and some rice or noodles. Maybe carrots or green onions, and/or a little bit of chicken meat: but plain broth and rice is good.

[clarentine]

My go-to food when I feel bad is rice, hot, with butter and salt.

[lynnal.livejournal.com]

Fresh apple cider is a good way to get your blood sugar up to the point where you can contemplate other food. It has the advantage of being good cold or hot, as you prefer.

[zeborah]

I was going to suggest apples in general - gives you sugar and there's something in it (I think the malic acid?) which is often soothing for the stomach. Sometimes I can't stand the thought of eating a whole apple but if I slice it up and eat it a slice at a time I suddenly discover I've run out of slices.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it is about apple slices. For awhile I kept telling myself it was ridiculous to want my apple in slices, and then I decided it was all right to be ridiculous. I eat apples so much more regularly and cheerfully if I slice them. This can't be a "convenience food" thing, because slicing an apple is less convenient than not. So I don't know. It makes me feel like I'm a 5-year-old insisting that my sandwich be cut on the diagonal, not lengthwise. But I keep circling back to, "Well, okay, as long as you eat your apple."

[zeborah]

Maybe something about the surface oxidisation? Or maybe something about having to open one's jaw wider? Or maybe the slight messiness of having to hold the increasingly-hard-to-hold-tidily core?

I dunno. Maybe it's just our inner five-year-old. But as you say, if it works it works!

[guppiecat]

Orange juice, one to two glasses. Then nothing else for an hour or so. The like the others say, a bit of protein. Then, a few hours after that, something heavier and more balanced. I like chicken and rice with a vegetable side dish.

I have this irritating tendency to forget to eat when I'm working on something interesting... for about 48 hours. so I've learned this from experience.

[rmnilsson.livejournal.com]

Grapes: little sugar bombs, take just long enough to eat that you can't get eat too much and get nauseated. Then peanut butter sandwiches.

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

Cherry Almond Cliff Bar and Stoneyfield Lemon Yogurt.

[matastas.livejournal.com]

White Castle.

Oh, wait. You're not hung over. Nevermind.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I asked about food.

White Castle is not food.

[pameladean]

I hope this problem is solved by now, but for some reason weighing in is irresistible. I'd start either with plain crackers or yoghurt, depending on which seems less icky, and graduate to some kind of protein. Applesauce is also good, maybe on toast.

This only reflects the vagaries of my sometimes annoyed stomach, though.

P.

[sraun]

As other posters have said, I hope this is a long-solved problem at this point.

We keep a variety of frozen nukables for just such situations. The most commonly grabbed one is cheeseburgers. But there are a variety of other things available.

Today I had some sausage and coffee and waffles made with Quaker Oatmeal Pancake Mix for breakfast. And real maple syrup.

The juices I'd go with. The fresh fruit I'd skip, but that's for personal reasons - they'd probably be a good idea for you. Something that iraunink and I both like for low blood sugar nausea is hard candy. What about Ginger Altoids?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Both cheeseburgers and sausage are on my list of "do not even bring this topic up to me until I have something on my stomach" foods. Different strokes!

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Buttered toast and a four minute egg?