When I was a kid, even a sick one, found chicken soup boring.
But make it egg drop and that was a different story all together.
Could make it with some mushrooms, or small pasta, or veggies (frozen was fine).
And add some julienned carrots or some juliened chicken and that was good eating.
Or just toss in any veggies you might want, frozen, fresh, or not.
OK, we, my sister and I, were strange kids and would make such concoctions ourselves. But not when we were sick.
Then Mom, God bless her soul, a great lady, would try to make us eat stuff like tea and toast.
Whoever taught anyone that a sick kid needs tea and toast I have no idea. But I suspect they were the remote spawn of the crone who tried to roast Hansel and Gretel into the oven. When we were sick we wanted to eat or drink nothing.
And when we felt better we wanted real grub.
And just regular chicken soup was kinda sorta blah. But make it egg drop, and we loved it.
Sorry, I know this is very peripheral to the main topic.
But just remembered what it felt like to be sick as a kid.
Will overwhelmingly vote for the canned or boxed stock (it ain't half bad) and tossing in some pasta (the little guys) and some frozen veggies is just fine with me.
You folks are the experts in what your children like and do not.
And maybe there are a few kids out there who actually adore, crave, and will feign illness just to get force fed tea and toast.
If so I don't want to know them.
LOL and I hope the child feels better soon.