<p>Just talked to DS in Boston. He has one of those change of seasons colds and it is raining in torrents off and on. Went to my old standby Grandma’s Chicken Soup and ordered the soup with challah bread. It isn’t cheap but he says it is amazingly good. Anyone else who has a sick kid out there and isn’t close by at least this makes you feel like you are doing something :)</p>
<p>Grandma’s Chicken Soup with challah bread? Sound like something my D would be interested in, too!</p>
<p>BB they are in MA so the delivery fee isn’t bad to ship there but it is a bit more if you are shipping cross country.</p>
<p>I finally was able to get onto their website (too many CC’ers rushed to get soup for their sick college kiddos? :))! Looks delicious, and next day delivery is not bad! Thank you! It cracked me up that “Grandma” can be followed on Twitter!</p>
<p>shipping soup cross-country? I can barely carry it to the table without spilling.</p>
<p>DS says the challah is amazing…pretty funny coming from a freckle faced Irish boy :)</p>
<p>Is there a Hillel group at your sons college? I know that at the University of Michigan you can contact Hillel if you’re sick and they will bring you chicken soup = Jewish penicillin!!</p>
<p>OMG I had no idea…even if you aren’t in Hillel and aren’t Jewish? That’s hysterical. And all this time I’ve been spending money on Grandma’s soup.</p>
<p>USC (Southern California) sends chicken soup to members of Hillel. So, I imagine that if someone joins Hillel and gets sick (G-d forbid…sorry can’t resist 
) Hillel sends it over. And if you happened to be named O’Leary and are a member…you get your soup!</p>
<p>Can you believe D is a student at Brandeis and there is no chicken soup delivery service?! At least none that I could find earlier this fall when she had the flu. Wish I had known about Grandma then! I may send some now, just because.</p>
<p>PRJ - You are right, there is no chicken soup delivery service at Brandeis. There is COMPLETE meal delivery service at Brandeis if a student is too ill to get to the dining hall. That would include any soup on the menu :)</p>
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<p>I found this out last year when my D was a freshman.</p>
<p>WOW, never imagined there is a service like this!
Have to say that it is pretty expensive though (the cheapest is half a gallon for almost $30 not counting delivery, which can be astronomical). Chicken soup is pretty inexpensive to make…
Do they ship it in dry ice or is it vacuum sealed?
Have to agree though that it is a great gift for sick kid :)</p>
<p>good to know about…I made my own for the holidays and froze a container full which I brought to my d at parents’ weekend and put it in her dorm freezer. after driving home, I called her to remind her it was there. I wondered about shipping frozen soup myself, but didn’t research it…has anyone ever done this? ;)</p>
<p>my s’s school, Washington and Lee University also provides full meals for sick students…they have flu buddies too</p>
<p>thanks RoselawnMom. She did have food delivered when she was sick - she probably used that “Feeling Blue” form. I just wanted a way that I could personally respond to that little voice that said “Mommy, I don’t feel well. I want chicken soup.:(”</p>
<p>lindz - I’ve thought about shipping frozen soup too. I’d be interested to know if anyone has done it successfully.</p>
<p>Yeah it is expensive…I warned you guys! But apparently it is amazing and the bread is really good. It is vacuum sealed, not frozen. I’m not sure about shipping frozen soup.</p>
<p>I thought this was a thread about grandmother’s recipes for soup…I have never heard of this ! Sounds great !</p>