Question: bland foods for a tender gut

[sonia]

I'm recovering from food poisoning (ugh!) and my gut is really tender, so I need bland foods for a while. When I was a kid, the thing to eat was saltine crackers. Or toast. Or noodles. Why do all these recovery foods have gluten??

I've been eating bananas, plain rice pasta, and chicken broth (Pacific Foods, labeled gluten-free, although it has onion powder, sigh). I need more ideas, please? What do you eat when you're being kind to a tender gut?

ETA: Wow, thanks for all your good wishes and suggestions!

Recipes in comments:

• basic coconut custard by heron61
  
• "dirty" eggs by harmonic_tabby
  
• 'magic soup' by gumbie_cat
  
• microwave rice pudding by rosefox
  
• microwave bread pudding linked by rosefox
  

Comments

[writedragon]

Electrolyte water (like SmartWater or similar), plain boiled chicken with the water it was boiled in (the broth, sprinkled with salt), maybe applesauce if you can tolerate it. Get well soon! Food poisoning sucks.

[sonia]

Thanks! Unfortunately not so much with the applesauce for me, since I see just about everyone is recommending it.