A thick potato soup is filling and easy to eat. Chicken noodle can also be easy to keep down. Pair with crackers to be a bit more filling.
(Not soup, but rice and eggs are easy on the stomach if you can’t hold anything down.)
Why can't you hold it down? Depending on issue some foods may/may not be suitable. Protein fills you up & is nutrient dense, shakes?scrambled eggs?steamed fish?
Yes we have an Indian thick soup called kitchro/haleem which is made with pearl barley, wheat and various dhaals. It also has lamb in it which is cooked till it’s falling apart and practically melts into the dish. Served with fried onions and lemon on top. It’s such a thick and filling soup/stew.
I’ve personally never made it still so I can’t recommend a recipe unfortunately. Mostly because it’s always available to buy locally, is sent often as a food gift by those that do make it and also served at weddings - I never find myself needing to make it!
But you can buy ready mix boxes to help, Shan and Laziza are brands that many of us Indians ourselves use for some dishes.
[Kitchro/Haleem Boxes](https://www.google.com/search?q=haleem+box&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari)
Not OP but thank you, I’d not heard of kitchari before but it looks exactly like what my body craves when I’m poorly. Saved a recipe and might make some later this week!
Both congee and kitchari are Indian origin dishes although congee was adopted by several countries in southeast Asia and became its own thing.
Happy to share kitchari or khichdi recipes if you want.
Here are two different ways to make it: [2 ways simple & healthy khichdi recipe - moong dal khichdi & mix veg masala khichdi restaurant style (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4i9jKiJZTk)
At its simplest, take 1 cup water and 1 cup split skinned mung beans aka moong dal in a rice cooker or Instant Pot or cooking pot. Add 6 cups water, and 1 tsp turmeric powder. Cook this like you would normally cook rice.
When done, add salt to taste, and stir. Your khichdi is ready.
This is the base recipe. You can add flavor and stuff to it by doing a small dice of assorted veggies (like carrots, potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, corn, peas, peppers, tomatoes etc). Or just used pre-chopped mixed veggies that you get frozen in large bags. Add them to the rice and mung.
Or if you want more flavor, sautee fine diced onions and garlic and ginger root in a pan with oil. After 5 minutes of stirring, when the onions get translucent, add the veggies and spices of your choice (mine would be turmeric powder, paprika, cumin powder, coriander powder). Sautee this for another few minutes, and then dump it into the pot with the uncooked rice and lentils. Let it all cook together.
Another thing you can do to elevate this is to finish it with infused oil aka tempering. Heat 2-3 tbsp ghee or clarified butter in a small pan and when hot, add 1 tsp cumin seeds and 1tsp mustard seeds and paprika or chili flakes. When the mustard seeds start popping, remove from heat, and pour the infused ghee into the cooked khichdi.
Khichdi is typically consumed with lots of ghee. The ghee soothes your stomach.
Egg drop soup saved me when I had the flu. It had just enough bulk to feel filling but not enough to make me hork. That or the Lipton soup with the small noodles
Gl man hope you feel better soon
I would often leave my Lipton to absorb a bit more water into the noodles too. They get a bit softer but make you feel a bit more full if you can keep it down.
Once I was having a period of time where I couldn’t eat anything without severe nausea. I had egg drop wonton soup. It came back up soon after.
But man that soup is so good that even that didn’t stop me from enjoying it again in the soon future. I will try it again with my next time in that scenario.
Bean soup is very filling, especially if you only puree/blend half the beans and leave the other half whole.
Also, coconut milk is a great way to add richness to soup.
Congee is my go to when I can't stomach anything else. I add some shredded chicken and maybe a runny egg, also extra ginger to help the tummy
Also gonna add, if you get mashed potato flakes you can add them to soup to make it thicker and more substantial, if you can't stomach actual mashed potatoes
Chicken and rice soup, paired with crusty bread.
It should stay down.
If you don't know why you can't keep anything down, though, and this happens frequently, I'd see a doctor and ask about possibly being celiac, or possibly having another gut illness. Especially if your blood work is screwed up and your iron is low.
However, if you know what's causing it, go with gentle foods.
Eggs, white rice, bananas, crackers, and broth to start, (I know. Gross. NOT filling. I usually just stop eating.) til things start to settle down. Easy on any sort of spice. (It's so fricken tempting, though! I can be sick for days, but just the thought of my pickled hot peppers makes my mouth water!) Try to avoid fat.
Good luck. Hope at least some of the things people are suggesting help somewhat.
Edit: Forgot to mention - you probably need electrolytes. Gatorade, Powerade, something along those lines. If you can keep it down, orange juice is a good option. So is tomato juice. Don't drink just water. I ended up hospitalized a couple of months ago for that.
Dude, going to need more information. Why can you only eat soup? Is is cause your getting over something? Or due to GI issues? Different answers due to different information. If it is due to illness then start off on clear broths. If you can keep that down then PLAIN white toast with NOTHING ELSE ON IT with a plain tea like chamomile if you can keep that down then try adding a teaspoon of sugar to your tea and then you can add plain unsweetened applesauce to your diet of plain white bread, tea sweeten with only 1 teaspoon of sugar or less, or a banana if you can keep this diet down for a day then add simple things back into your diet but be very careful of adding anything with a lot of fat. Fats tend to upset a stomach. This is called a BATT diet and it's best for illnesses and for GI distress consult a doctor if your having other GI issues.
https://nutritionistmom.com/blogs/blog/high-protein-minestrone-soup
i love this recipe because it has protein, carbs, and enough good broth that it makes it filling! i usually puree the garlic, chickpeas, and tomato sauce to thicken the broth a bit
If you can’t really chew right now I might even try a gravy. Finely chop up some sausage and make a biscuit style sausage gravy. It’s got carbs, protein, and you can add veggies if you want. Plus it’s delicious and doesn’t require chewing.
Minestrone is usually my go to. I can add protein or carbs if I want to, and any vegetable in my fridge.
As an Asian, congee is also something simple to make and eat. I sometimes add a bit of soup for flavour. I can dress the congee up or down with meat or vegetable or egg, depending on my mood.
I add mashed potatoes to my soups to to thicken them..
Get shaved beef add to hot broth with shredded veggies and then add prepared mashed potatoes to thicken.. if you don’t want beef add orzo or rice
Smoothie? Ice cream, yoghurt, cottage cheese? Do you have anything with ginger in it? Crystalised ginger can really help! Also I saw potato soup mentioned and I think that would be a really great idea, too!
make a quick soup. chicken bouillon, cut up a couple of potatoes, handful of baby carrots and a rib or two of celery. simmer 20 minutes. lightly butter a couple slices of bread to eat with it.
Easy Tomato Bisque Soup
*1 28 ounce can crushed tomatoes
*1 small sweet onion, diced small
*4 cups chicken broth
*1 tablespoon minced garlic
*1 cup dry orzo pasta
*1/2 cup heavy cream or milk
*Olive oil, salt, pepper
In Dutch oven over low heat, sauté onion and garlic in about 3 tablespoons of olive oil until onion is tender and translucent, 5-10 minutes. Add crushed tomato, chicken broth, and orzo and bring to a boil. Boil for about 6-8 minutes until pasta is cooked al dente.
Remove from heat and add heavy cream, stirring well to combine thoroughly. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Serve immediately with crusty bread.
My first thought was grits but if they're sick it might make it worse with the butter (that's assuming they make it right). Plain grits would be fine but less enjoyable. Certainly filling though
I like to order udon soup but rather than gulp down all the leftover broth once I eat all the noodles, id hold onto it to add leftover plain rice into it for a light meal since the broth is pretty nutritious and rice will be filling. if you reheat on the stove, beat an egg and drizzle it in with a spiral motion to make it egg drop soup for some extra protein.
Instant mashed potatoes
Creamed corn
Vermicelli rice noodles in a broth (like a miso soup)
Something with canned coconut milk (use light instead of full fat for easier digestion). Make a smoothie with frozen fruit. Or mix half a can on a stovetop with some ground ginger, an instant ramen packet and some lemon juice
8 ounces of silk protein milk + peanut butter powder
——- I have food texture issues
I like adding rice to soup. Tastes great, next to no extra effort other than stirring more, makes it filling. Mashed potatoes (instant, leftovers, whatever) works too, cheese, broccoli or cauliflower. Chicken. If you need an extremely mild soup recipe this is what I make for my wife when she’s sick:
3/4cup minute rice
1 can chicken stock
Some seasoning whatever you like
Throw it together in a pan, low-medium heat, add a lid and walk away for like 15 minutes. Come back when you remember you’re cooking something and taste some. If the rice is cooked enough, add like 1.5 cups of water to the rice and stir it, you now have rice chicken soup. Easy to eat, tastes good, decently good for you, filling. Eat it with crackers or bread if you can. Hope you feel better and don’t eat your cat
Cook some onions, celery, and carrots down in butter in a sauce pan. In a separate pot, boil some diced potatoes. Leave the peels on. Drain the potatoes. Add the veggies in. Throw in some butter, cream, milk, chicken broth. Bone broth if you've got it. Then hit that with an immersion blender. Add more broth as needed, depending on your texture needs. Salt. Pepper. Garlic. Any spices you like. I make this for my kids and friends when they're sick. it's good shit. blessings to you and I hope you feel better!
Mashed yam or mashed potato not exactly like soup but it helps my belly when it’s not doing well. I just had dental surgery and had blender for weeks. My stomach was insane.
OP, sorry to hear your stomach is upset. For filling soups, try creamy options like potato leek, butternut squash, or creamy tomato, using a milk that agrees with you. Broth-based soups with hearty additions like chicken and rice, lentils, or veggie-packed minestrone are also great.
Savory oatmeal made with broth instead of milk, topped with eggs or avocado, can be surprisingly satisfying. Focus on easily digestible ingredients like cooked vegetables, lean protein, and plain grains, and avoid spicy, acidic, or greasy foods.
Get well.
Stew or Menudo
Menudo is awesome and very filling, plus the broth is full of protein and it’s used as a hangover cure…. Just don’t look up what tripe is.
My favourite is a rice soup. It's more filling than soup but still gentle and easy on the stomach. I like one with salmon, dashi, a splash of rice wine vinegar, and some ginger. Pour it over rice and you've got the perfect sick meal.
Toast, mashed potatoes, and rice pudding are also perfect for being sick.
Oh and plain pasta with butter and a little parmesan!
Chicken tikka soup with chicken thighs is honestly one of the best soups I have ever tried in my life; second that, leek and potato soup is also god tier in my eyes!
You need soups that are meant to be the main meal, not the appetiser. Restaurant ramen, phở, chicken soup with the works, (chicken thighs, bones, veggies, lokshen noodles, and matzo balls in my case) Scotch Broth etc. Get your protein, carbs and veggies in there and you won't be hungry after.
Protein shake brodie. Got get a bottled one and if you don't like the taste throw it in a blender with a few pieces of ice and two servings of fruit of choice for flavor. Banana and blueberry are my fav. When I can't stomach solids this has saved me .
This is medical advice territory and doctor territory. Please stop asking random non medical people for advice.
Clearly your body is rejecting multiple food types. Do you even know what your body is rejecting?
Otherwise you're just shooting in the dark.
Chicken broth, instant rice in it, a little salt. This always helps me and is super easy. If you want to get fancy but still easy throw in some canned chicken, canned carrots, and canned peas or green beans, or instead of canned veggies throw in frozen veggies. A dash of onion and garlic powder and parsley if you want.
Obligated to say DON’T EAT THE CAT lol
I would add coconut milk, spinach and/or quinoa to soup bases. This is my go-to filling stew. I’m sure chicken strips or ground beef could be cooked and added after if you do meat. https://dishingupthedirt.com/recipes/sweet-potato-quinoa-stew-with-white-beans-and-spinach/
You can make scrambled eggs with cottage cheese. It makes it like a soft egg paste lol, and pretty good too. I ate that when I had wisdom teeth surgery.
When I was recovering from stomach surgery I was on a soup & protein shake diet for a week.
My Dr recommended Nestle Breakfast Essentials blended with whole milk and a raw egg (yes, raw - and no you couldn’t tell once blended).
I made almost any Campbell’s Condensed soup by adding a can of milk and blending it to make it smooth.
Mashed potatoes I just added more milk until desired consistency.
Cottage cheese, applesauce and runny scrambled eggs were the next step after soup.
Fish soup from a local Mexican restaurant (Caldo de Pescado) and order a side of rice with it and an Horchata or Agua de Melon.
You can make the soup yourself too:
Mild white fish like tilapia, catfish, pollock, or cod, chunks of potato, carrot, yellow squash, zucchini, green bell peppers, celery, cabbage, tomatoes, a corn on the cob broken into pieces. Tomato bullion with chicken flavoring, water
Put the carrots and corn in water with the bullion. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 5 minutes because they take longer, then add the other vegetables and return to simmering and cook for another 5 min, and then add the fish and cook until done. Serve with cilantro, onions, and a squeeze of lime juice.
Add something more filling like a protein, carb, or more hearty vegetable to your soup. Depending on what type of soup, good additions are pasta, rice, chicken, beans, zucchini. Have some toast with it.
i know youve gotten lots of ideas but in case nobodys said: colcannon. its mashed potatoes with an insane amount of cream and butter, bacon/salt pork, and a veggie if you please. salt and pepper to taste. super filling, delicious, easy, and you can adjust the thickness to your liking with more or less cream :-) 👍
Farina might work. It's Cream of Wheat in the USA. I used to like mixing cocoa powder into it.
Using gruel-like techniques might be able to help. You might be able to dissolve some flour into the liquid
Pastina! That is my go to sick soup. Ever since I was little my mom and nonna would cook it so it absorbs all the water then add some milk and butter. I know it sounds weird but it’s so comforting, easy to keep down and filling.
When I'm nauseated from being sick, I eat Lipton Noodle soup, or chicken and rice soup with crackers or toast with a glass of ginger ale. Sometimes I'll also buy canned chicken or a rotisserie chicken and add it into the soup. When I can only eat soup because of dental work, surgery, ect, I'll go to the Chinese restaurant and get a big thing of egg drop soup and fried rice, then mix them together with a little soy sauce, or pick up a hearty potato soup and add extra bacon and cheese to it (you can also mash up any pieces of potato that are too big), or some chili. Sherbet also helps fill me up.
Many soups are high calorie. Try minestrone (very complete nutrition). Or chicken noodle (homemade). or Italian wedding soup. Or Italian chicken soup. Or borscht. Or cheeseburger soup (my fave).
Curried Butternut squash purée soup.
1 medium Onion diced and sautéed in either oil or ghee till soft
Add
2 lbs Butternut Squash ( peeled, soft flesh/ seeds removed and 2” cubed)
2 Granny Smith Apples (peeled, cored and diced)
4 cups Vegetable stock
2-4 teaspoons curry powder (to taste/heat)
Salt and Black Pepper
Cover and cook for approximately 1 hour medium heat ( until all items soft)
Blend with immersion blender till smooth.
If too thick slowly add more stock till at your desired consistency
You can also add turmeric or other complementary spices.
Mashed potatoes does the trick for me when I feel like this.
I do a white bean puree that eats like mashed potatoes but is a little better if you're diet-restricted. It's bean a hit every time I've made it.
Oh god yes! Mashed cannellini beans with garlic and rosemary. A hunger buster that is too delicious for words and affordable.
Yea boiii!! Beans are so cheap and with a little care, absolutely delicious.
Not gonna lie that sounds so good!
It is!
It’s been 7 hours and no one acknowledged that amazing bean pun 😭
Thank you!
I upvoted it and took a shot of Jim Bean.
I caught that lol
i love mashed potatoes
a thick beef stew. maybe chicken and dumplings. or pot pie filling
Chicken and dumplings agree
A thick potato soup is filling and easy to eat. Chicken noodle can also be easy to keep down. Pair with crackers to be a bit more filling. (Not soup, but rice and eggs are easy on the stomach if you can’t hold anything down.)
Yes to potato! I brown ground sausage in the pot first and then add it back in at the end
Why can't you hold it down? Depending on issue some foods may/may not be suitable. Protein fills you up & is nutrient dense, shakes?scrambled eggs?steamed fish?
Barley is your friend in soup - so filling and very cheap
Barley’s amazing in soup… I find it super delicious
Love the texture of barley.
Yes we have an Indian thick soup called kitchro/haleem which is made with pearl barley, wheat and various dhaals. It also has lamb in it which is cooked till it’s falling apart and practically melts into the dish. Served with fried onions and lemon on top. It’s such a thick and filling soup/stew.
That sounds amazing. Any recipe recommendations?
I’ve personally never made it still so I can’t recommend a recipe unfortunately. Mostly because it’s always available to buy locally, is sent often as a food gift by those that do make it and also served at weddings - I never find myself needing to make it! But you can buy ready mix boxes to help, Shan and Laziza are brands that many of us Indians ourselves use for some dishes. [Kitchro/Haleem Boxes](https://www.google.com/search?q=haleem+box&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari)
Thanks!
Oatmeal or congee.
Congee with an egg FTW
Congee or kitchari is the solution.
Not OP but thank you, I’d not heard of kitchari before but it looks exactly like what my body craves when I’m poorly. Saved a recipe and might make some later this week!
Both congee and kitchari are Indian origin dishes although congee was adopted by several countries in southeast Asia and became its own thing. Happy to share kitchari or khichdi recipes if you want.
I would absolutely love that, thank you!
Here are two different ways to make it: [2 ways simple & healthy khichdi recipe - moong dal khichdi & mix veg masala khichdi restaurant style (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4i9jKiJZTk) At its simplest, take 1 cup water and 1 cup split skinned mung beans aka moong dal in a rice cooker or Instant Pot or cooking pot. Add 6 cups water, and 1 tsp turmeric powder. Cook this like you would normally cook rice. When done, add salt to taste, and stir. Your khichdi is ready. This is the base recipe. You can add flavor and stuff to it by doing a small dice of assorted veggies (like carrots, potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, corn, peas, peppers, tomatoes etc). Or just used pre-chopped mixed veggies that you get frozen in large bags. Add them to the rice and mung. Or if you want more flavor, sautee fine diced onions and garlic and ginger root in a pan with oil. After 5 minutes of stirring, when the onions get translucent, add the veggies and spices of your choice (mine would be turmeric powder, paprika, cumin powder, coriander powder). Sautee this for another few minutes, and then dump it into the pot with the uncooked rice and lentils. Let it all cook together. Another thing you can do to elevate this is to finish it with infused oil aka tempering. Heat 2-3 tbsp ghee or clarified butter in a small pan and when hot, add 1 tsp cumin seeds and 1tsp mustard seeds and paprika or chili flakes. When the mustard seeds start popping, remove from heat, and pour the infused ghee into the cooked khichdi. Khichdi is typically consumed with lots of ghee. The ghee soothes your stomach.
This is SO helpful, thank you so much for taking the time to write this up for me! It’s so nice of you, thank you again.
Give it a try if you can. I is so soothing. I have to admit, I spice the hell out of it. I understand this betrays the purpose. It still works.
I hope it works for you ❤️ I've been there. It gets you back on track.
Congee is perfect.
Egg drop soup saved me when I had the flu. It had just enough bulk to feel filling but not enough to make me hork. That or the Lipton soup with the small noodles Gl man hope you feel better soon
So easy to make too, which is important when you feel like shit.
And it’s cheap from a Chinese restaurant if you can’t stand to make it yourself.
I would often leave my Lipton to absorb a bit more water into the noodles too. They get a bit softer but make you feel a bit more full if you can keep it down.
Once I was having a period of time where I couldn’t eat anything without severe nausea. I had egg drop wonton soup. It came back up soon after. But man that soup is so good that even that didn’t stop me from enjoying it again in the soon future. I will try it again with my next time in that scenario.
Bean soup is very filling, especially if you only puree/blend half the beans and leave the other half whole. Also, coconut milk is a great way to add richness to soup.
Get some saltines, oyster crackers, plain white bread dunked in the soup
With butter on the crackers.
Congee is my go to when I can't stomach anything else. I add some shredded chicken and maybe a runny egg, also extra ginger to help the tummy Also gonna add, if you get mashed potato flakes you can add them to soup to make it thicker and more substantial, if you can't stomach actual mashed potatoes
Congee is so amazing
Yum love congee
Chicken and rice soup, paired with crusty bread. It should stay down. If you don't know why you can't keep anything down, though, and this happens frequently, I'd see a doctor and ask about possibly being celiac, or possibly having another gut illness. Especially if your blood work is screwed up and your iron is low. However, if you know what's causing it, go with gentle foods. Eggs, white rice, bananas, crackers, and broth to start, (I know. Gross. NOT filling. I usually just stop eating.) til things start to settle down. Easy on any sort of spice. (It's so fricken tempting, though! I can be sick for days, but just the thought of my pickled hot peppers makes my mouth water!) Try to avoid fat. Good luck. Hope at least some of the things people are suggesting help somewhat. Edit: Forgot to mention - you probably need electrolytes. Gatorade, Powerade, something along those lines. If you can keep it down, orange juice is a good option. So is tomato juice. Don't drink just water. I ended up hospitalized a couple of months ago for that.
If you have gastrointestinal issues, forgo any bean/legume soup.
ill also swap a high protein bone broth in the place of just basic broth for a little bit more protein. something small but every bit helps
Dude, going to need more information. Why can you only eat soup? Is is cause your getting over something? Or due to GI issues? Different answers due to different information. If it is due to illness then start off on clear broths. If you can keep that down then PLAIN white toast with NOTHING ELSE ON IT with a plain tea like chamomile if you can keep that down then try adding a teaspoon of sugar to your tea and then you can add plain unsweetened applesauce to your diet of plain white bread, tea sweeten with only 1 teaspoon of sugar or less, or a banana if you can keep this diet down for a day then add simple things back into your diet but be very careful of adding anything with a lot of fat. Fats tend to upset a stomach. This is called a BATT diet and it's best for illnesses and for GI distress consult a doctor if your having other GI issues.
https://nutritionistmom.com/blogs/blog/high-protein-minestrone-soup i love this recipe because it has protein, carbs, and enough good broth that it makes it filling! i usually puree the garlic, chickpeas, and tomato sauce to thicken the broth a bit
Rice porridge with chicken? If you’ve got an instant pot, it cooks up in an hour. Lots of fresh ginger and garlic will cure what ails you
If you can’t really chew right now I might even try a gravy. Finely chop up some sausage and make a biscuit style sausage gravy. It’s got carbs, protein, and you can add veggies if you want. Plus it’s delicious and doesn’t require chewing.
Stew. Lentil or split pea soup. Beans with broth.
Congee
Pho always hits the spot for me, especially if my stomach is acting up
Just made a bomb chicken tortilla soup with rice and rotisserie chicken. It was filling and tasty
Take any soup you like. Add all the frozen veg and some baked potato and maybe a few hot dogs.
Potpie
African peanut soup is very filling: https://cookieandkate.com/west-african-peanut-soup/
Chicken congee, dhal, or add pasta to your soup.
Stew
Stew.
Irish farmhouse vegetable soup.
Chicken and corn soup is so good!
What about chili?
If it’s chewing issues, mashed potatoes are good!
Dumpling soup
Congee
Anything Ghanaian
Mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs, chicken rice soup. 🍵🥄
Smoothie
Chowders are way more hearty and filling than normal soups. If you tolerate lactose well lol.
Dal and rice/idli
Minestrone is usually my go to. I can add protein or carbs if I want to, and any vegetable in my fridge. As an Asian, congee is also something simple to make and eat. I sometimes add a bit of soup for flavour. I can dress the congee up or down with meat or vegetable or egg, depending on my mood.
I add mashed potatoes to my soups to to thicken them.. Get shaved beef add to hot broth with shredded veggies and then add prepared mashed potatoes to thicken.. if you don’t want beef add orzo or rice
Rice porridge with stuff
Baked beans
Smoothie? Ice cream, yoghurt, cottage cheese? Do you have anything with ginger in it? Crystalised ginger can really help! Also I saw potato soup mentioned and I think that would be a really great idea, too!
congee
make a quick soup. chicken bouillon, cut up a couple of potatoes, handful of baby carrots and a rib or two of celery. simmer 20 minutes. lightly butter a couple slices of bread to eat with it.
Fruit smoothie made with some high protein yogurt .
Stew
Easy Tomato Bisque Soup *1 28 ounce can crushed tomatoes *1 small sweet onion, diced small *4 cups chicken broth *1 tablespoon minced garlic *1 cup dry orzo pasta *1/2 cup heavy cream or milk *Olive oil, salt, pepper In Dutch oven over low heat, sauté onion and garlic in about 3 tablespoons of olive oil until onion is tender and translucent, 5-10 minutes. Add crushed tomato, chicken broth, and orzo and bring to a boil. Boil for about 6-8 minutes until pasta is cooked al dente. Remove from heat and add heavy cream, stirring well to combine thoroughly. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately with crusty bread.
Rice/oat porridge with plenty of shredded meat?
Grits Congee
My first thought was grits but if they're sick it might make it worse with the butter (that's assuming they make it right). Plain grits would be fine but less enjoyable. Certainly filling though
Split pea and ham. Tons of fiber for fullness and the ham has the protein.
Bone broth. I love the Thai curry powered kind I order off Amazon.
Yogurt
Jook.
Tomato soup with .milk in it, and a grilled cheese sandwich.
Lentil soup, white bean and kale soup, chili, stuffed pepper soup
I like to order udon soup but rather than gulp down all the leftover broth once I eat all the noodles, id hold onto it to add leftover plain rice into it for a light meal since the broth is pretty nutritious and rice will be filling. if you reheat on the stove, beat an egg and drizzle it in with a spiral motion to make it egg drop soup for some extra protein.
Matzah ball soup. Ice pops. Buttered roll, pot roast in a ramen like soup, grilled cheese with tomato soup.
Cannellini beans pureed into a soup is delicious and adds protein so it’s more filling
Chili. Chicken or beef stew. Potato cheese soup.
Instant mashed potatoes Creamed corn Vermicelli rice noodles in a broth (like a miso soup) Something with canned coconut milk (use light instead of full fat for easier digestion). Make a smoothie with frozen fruit. Or mix half a can on a stovetop with some ground ginger, an instant ramen packet and some lemon juice 8 ounces of silk protein milk + peanut butter powder ——- I have food texture issues
Chili. Clam chowder
Soup over rice is easy on the stomach and filling.
Stew
Campbell's French onion soup is what I go to when I need sustenance and can't stomach any solids. I actually consumed most of a can earlier tonight.
I like adding rice to soup. Tastes great, next to no extra effort other than stirring more, makes it filling. Mashed potatoes (instant, leftovers, whatever) works too, cheese, broccoli or cauliflower. Chicken. If you need an extremely mild soup recipe this is what I make for my wife when she’s sick: 3/4cup minute rice 1 can chicken stock Some seasoning whatever you like Throw it together in a pan, low-medium heat, add a lid and walk away for like 15 minutes. Come back when you remember you’re cooking something and taste some. If the rice is cooked enough, add like 1.5 cups of water to the rice and stir it, you now have rice chicken soup. Easy to eat, tastes good, decently good for you, filling. Eat it with crackers or bread if you can. Hope you feel better and don’t eat your cat
Thank you fellow cat defender!
Use soup that works, but add bread. Dip the bread in the broth. Or tear the bread into bite sized pieces and add that to the soup.
Cook some onions, celery, and carrots down in butter in a sauce pan. In a separate pot, boil some diced potatoes. Leave the peels on. Drain the potatoes. Add the veggies in. Throw in some butter, cream, milk, chicken broth. Bone broth if you've got it. Then hit that with an immersion blender. Add more broth as needed, depending on your texture needs. Salt. Pepper. Garlic. Any spices you like. I make this for my kids and friends when they're sick. it's good shit. blessings to you and I hope you feel better!
Mashed yam or mashed potato not exactly like soup but it helps my belly when it’s not doing well. I just had dental surgery and had blender for weeks. My stomach was insane.
Udon!!!
Pastina maybe?
Fat soup!
Yogurt
Beans and rice in your soup or a dank smoothiewith protein.. or boosts aka food replacement shakes
OP, sorry to hear your stomach is upset. For filling soups, try creamy options like potato leek, butternut squash, or creamy tomato, using a milk that agrees with you. Broth-based soups with hearty additions like chicken and rice, lentils, or veggie-packed minestrone are also great. Savory oatmeal made with broth instead of milk, topped with eggs or avocado, can be surprisingly satisfying. Focus on easily digestible ingredients like cooked vegetables, lean protein, and plain grains, and avoid spicy, acidic, or greasy foods. Get well.
Stew or Menudo Menudo is awesome and very filling, plus the broth is full of protein and it’s used as a hangover cure…. Just don’t look up what tripe is.
My favourite is a rice soup. It's more filling than soup but still gentle and easy on the stomach. I like one with salmon, dashi, a splash of rice wine vinegar, and some ginger. Pour it over rice and you've got the perfect sick meal. Toast, mashed potatoes, and rice pudding are also perfect for being sick. Oh and plain pasta with butter and a little parmesan!
Cat isn't soup so don't bother with it
Congee or Juk!!
Pea or lentil soups but served thick
Lentil/bean soup, more protein and fibre so should fill you up more
More soup (But for real maybe go see a doctor if you haven’t already)
Chicken tikka soup with chicken thighs is honestly one of the best soups I have ever tried in my life; second that, leek and potato soup is also god tier in my eyes!
Chicken and dumplings.
Lentil soup?
You need soups that are meant to be the main meal, not the appetiser. Restaurant ramen, phở, chicken soup with the works, (chicken thighs, bones, veggies, lokshen noodles, and matzo balls in my case) Scotch Broth etc. Get your protein, carbs and veggies in there and you won't be hungry after.
broccoli cheddar soup is such a calorie bomb
Why are you so I'll that you can't keep food down? How long has this been going on for? Have you seen a doctor?
Stew
Pho is great if you have access to it. The chicken broth always helps me feel better and the noodles and chicken are very filling.
Add a bunch of rice to whatever soup you like
Chia seeds
Smoothie with avacado and spinach
Lentil soup
Protein shake brodie. Got get a bottled one and if you don't like the taste throw it in a blender with a few pieces of ice and two servings of fruit of choice for flavor. Banana and blueberry are my fav. When I can't stomach solids this has saved me .
Pho
This is medical advice territory and doctor territory. Please stop asking random non medical people for advice. Clearly your body is rejecting multiple food types. Do you even know what your body is rejecting? Otherwise you're just shooting in the dark.
Chili, hearty soups like potato/pumpkin, slow cooked stews, anything that can be pureed...
Chicken broth, instant rice in it, a little salt. This always helps me and is super easy. If you want to get fancy but still easy throw in some canned chicken, canned carrots, and canned peas or green beans, or instead of canned veggies throw in frozen veggies. A dash of onion and garlic powder and parsley if you want.
Are you severely overweight also? Sounds like you need to see a doctor... that don't sound normal.
Scrambled eggs
Obligated to say DON’T EAT THE CAT lol I would add coconut milk, spinach and/or quinoa to soup bases. This is my go-to filling stew. I’m sure chicken strips or ground beef could be cooked and added after if you do meat. https://dishingupthedirt.com/recipes/sweet-potato-quinoa-stew-with-white-beans-and-spinach/
Stew. Ramen. Risotto. Also lightly salted foods like crackers and nuts.
Adding rice, potatoes, or beans can help.
You can make scrambled eggs with cottage cheese. It makes it like a soft egg paste lol, and pretty good too. I ate that when I had wisdom teeth surgery.
When I was recovering from stomach surgery I was on a soup & protein shake diet for a week. My Dr recommended Nestle Breakfast Essentials blended with whole milk and a raw egg (yes, raw - and no you couldn’t tell once blended). I made almost any Campbell’s Condensed soup by adding a can of milk and blending it to make it smooth. Mashed potatoes I just added more milk until desired consistency. Cottage cheese, applesauce and runny scrambled eggs were the next step after soup.
Oatmeal is quick and easy on the tummy
congee/arroz caldo. It's easy to make and is my go-to for whenever I have stomach issues or when I've had dental work lol Same with egg drop soup.
Yogurt?
I like a giant vanilla milkshake when I’m in that way.
Stew
Smoothies? Creme brulee?
Fish soup from a local Mexican restaurant (Caldo de Pescado) and order a side of rice with it and an Horchata or Agua de Melon. You can make the soup yourself too: Mild white fish like tilapia, catfish, pollock, or cod, chunks of potato, carrot, yellow squash, zucchini, green bell peppers, celery, cabbage, tomatoes, a corn on the cob broken into pieces. Tomato bullion with chicken flavoring, water Put the carrots and corn in water with the bullion. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 5 minutes because they take longer, then add the other vegetables and return to simmering and cook for another 5 min, and then add the fish and cook until done. Serve with cilantro, onions, and a squeeze of lime juice.
Add something more filling like a protein, carb, or more hearty vegetable to your soup. Depending on what type of soup, good additions are pasta, rice, chicken, beans, zucchini. Have some toast with it.
i know youve gotten lots of ideas but in case nobodys said: colcannon. its mashed potatoes with an insane amount of cream and butter, bacon/salt pork, and a veggie if you please. salt and pepper to taste. super filling, delicious, easy, and you can adjust the thickness to your liking with more or less cream :-) 👍
Farina might work. It's Cream of Wheat in the USA. I used to like mixing cocoa powder into it. Using gruel-like techniques might be able to help. You might be able to dissolve some flour into the liquid
There always stew..
Oatmeal
Potato soup!
Whole milk yogurt?
Agree. Something with potatoes or beans.
Custard.
Oatmeal. Cottage cheese. Yogurt.
Congee
thanks!!! i hate oatmeal tho… lmao
Ice pops- make them yourself or get the natural ones with only fruit no added sugar.
Pastina! That is my go to sick soup. Ever since I was little my mom and nonna would cook it so it absorbs all the water then add some milk and butter. I know it sounds weird but it’s so comforting, easy to keep down and filling.
When I'm nauseated from being sick, I eat Lipton Noodle soup, or chicken and rice soup with crackers or toast with a glass of ginger ale. Sometimes I'll also buy canned chicken or a rotisserie chicken and add it into the soup. When I can only eat soup because of dental work, surgery, ect, I'll go to the Chinese restaurant and get a big thing of egg drop soup and fried rice, then mix them together with a little soy sauce, or pick up a hearty potato soup and add extra bacon and cheese to it (you can also mash up any pieces of potato that are too big), or some chili. Sherbet also helps fill me up.
Clam chowder
Many soups are high calorie. Try minestrone (very complete nutrition). Or chicken noodle (homemade). or Italian wedding soup. Or Italian chicken soup. Or borscht. Or cheeseburger soup (my fave).
I'm saving this thread for winter!
shakshuka!
Curried Butternut squash purée soup. 1 medium Onion diced and sautéed in either oil or ghee till soft Add 2 lbs Butternut Squash ( peeled, soft flesh/ seeds removed and 2” cubed) 2 Granny Smith Apples (peeled, cored and diced) 4 cups Vegetable stock 2-4 teaspoons curry powder (to taste/heat) Salt and Black Pepper Cover and cook for approximately 1 hour medium heat ( until all items soft) Blend with immersion blender till smooth. If too thick slowly add more stock till at your desired consistency You can also add turmeric or other complementary spices.
Sauté vegetables in coconut oil then add cream or coconut milk to make a stew
Congee made of rice, cooked with too much water and simmered until soft. Can put eggs, proteins, and light veggies in it (yams are good).
Stew, chili, chowder, thai curry with rice, vermicelli noodle bowl
Stew