Easy Recuperating Foods

Looking for under-the-weather recipes? This egg drop chicken noodle soup is the easiest thing to do. And you know how chicken soup is always the best go-to food when you’re not feeling well. Check out these easy-on-the-tummy foods to eat when you’re recuperating from surgery or the flu.

• chicken noodle soup
• cream of chicken soup
• cream of rice soup
• carrots and potatoes
• cottage cheese
• Cream of Wheat
• potato bread
• cinnamon raisin bread
• sugar-free Jello
• sugar-free pudding
• ripe banana
• egg and cheese omelet
• chicken noodle egg drop soup
• potato soup
• spinach
• crackers

There are times in life when you can only eat bland foods or just chicken noodle soup. Gets boring after a few days.

In November, I spent a week or two with congestion. Then, I was in the hospital. I was told to eat mostly bland food, though I could eat whatever I liked.

I am not a licensed nutritionist, nor am I a medical professional. If you need to follow a bland diet, see your medical practitioner or nutritionist. I’m only sharing what I liked and ate on this particular bland food experience.

Twice, I even splurged and ate chicken too soon. Back to easy foods, I started craving vegetables (good thing ’cause I LOVE veggies).

At first, I only ate carrots. Although vegetables are good sources of nutrition, not all may be acceptable on a bland diet. Spinach sounded good to me, so I added that to my vegetable list.

The nice thing about this list is you can make multiple kinds of omelets which are good no matter if they are for breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner.

1. Cheese Omelet
2. Spinach Omelet
3. Carrot Omelet
4. Cheese Spinach & Carrot Omelet
5. Omelet with avocado

But there is another recipe my friend, Denise, told me about that I had not ever made before. Egg Drop Chicken Noodle Soup. She and I were talking on the phone, and I mentioned the fact that I was about to go eat chicken noodle soup again. She gave me the idea of cooking homemade chicken noodle soup and dropping eggs into it.

I thought about that a minute. How would an egg drop be in canned soup? I tried it, and it was delicious. Here’s the recipe for you (though it’s easy enough that you wouldn’t need a recipe):

Chicken Noodle Egg Drop Soup

Since surgery, I have backed off on the soups. But the light diet requirements really helped me to go through the holidays without overeating – until my anniversary.

My husband and I treated ourselves to a romantic dinner out at a fabulous Houston restaurant. The menu entree I chose inspired a new grits recipe and blog post I shared on the blog. Check out the recipe and also the photo of the awesome lamb and grits dish I devoured at the Spindletop.

Now that we’re into the second week of 2019, I am focusing on cooking and baking simple nutritious recipes.

Some of the organic and nutritious staples in my pantry this month include:

• organic cocoa powder
• carob chips
• King Arthur’s Organic White Whole Wheat Flour.

The baked mini bundts, bread loaves, cookies and muffins I’ve made with the ingredients listed above have brought mixed responses. Family members have tried them out. However, they’re not used to baking with different healthy flours.

My little two-year-old grandson, on the other hand, loved my whole wheat banana bread. I was visiting, and my daughter mentioned one day, “Mom, I hope you didn’t want any more banana bread.”

Little Grand Man had pulled a kitchen table chair up to the counter. He stood upon it, and helped himself to the rest of the bread. He was walking around the house, eating the bread, dropping pieces of bread wherever he walked.

The texture of the whole wheat bread is different than when using white flour, somewhat heavier. And when you love chocolate chip cookies, carob chips definitely do not equal the taste. Changing to whole foods does take some adapting.

 

Have a sweet tooth? You owe it to yourself to switch over to naturally sweet foods. Like sweet potatoes, for instance. Did you hear this week about the lady who lived to 114? Her family said she often ate sweet potatoes. Who knows if that had anything to do with how she lived so long. But think about it. Those potatoes are naturally sweet and don’t need marshmallows and brown sugar to make them taste better. Food for thought.

Best wishes for a happy new year and good health!