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

[runpunkrun]

I love that you added the links to the recipes in your entry! Since we're not a paid account, when you search the comm, it doesn't include the comments; now those recipes will pop up if someone searches for those words.

[sonia]

Following your example! Good to know why that's useful.

I was aware that this post might skirt the rule about not talking about health stuff. I hope that was okay.

[runpunkrun]

It was in service of asking for foods that were easy on the stomach, and you didn't go into detail in your post, so while it skirted the line, I figured it was okay. Plus I was happy to see you were getting so many responses!

In the future, though, please avoid talking about health stuff and know that it's perfectly fine to ask for recipes that are easy on the stomach, or drinkable, or whatever without explaining why.

[sonia]

Will avoid in future, thanks!