Canada Dry ginger ale I guess, good chaser for the rare whiskies I don’t like neat. Honorary mention for Pommac, but I have not had it probably 10+ years
Milk and fat of any kind isn’t usually the best if you have trouble eating in general. Lots of apple sauce, chicken soup and crackers mentioned already, so I’ll just add the basic ass tostidos round nacho chips. Those give the salt you need, but don’t have much else, so they’re easy to digest. Anyway, whatever is fine, as long as you can keep it down.
8GB is OK for browsing, zoom and such, but if there’s 16GB (or even 12GB) option that’s in the price range, I would personally go with that. Otherwise you would want it come with SSD, not HDD, rest of the specs shouldn’t really matter for your use case. Unlikely that there would be much if any HDD options anyway, but mentioning it just in case.
4GB ram with Windows11 is going to be practically unusable. Even for Windows 7 4GB would be rough just for basic browsing and Zoom. Installing older Windows on a laptop is possible and generally pretty easy, but you might to check there win7 drivers available for the hardware. I don’t think it’s worth it with laptop specs you provided though.