Gruels

Such families lived on one-pot meals -- gruels, soups, stews -- bread, macaroni, and oatmeal. ❋ Linda (2008)

The African Council of Food and Nutritional Sciences estimates that these gruels supply only half of the energy content of breast milk and little of the protein. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In developing countries, weaning foods are commonly gruels made from staple cereals such as rice, maize, and wheat. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This same Lethlean article also refers to another kind of porridge, one made from ground corn - polenta - which was also the Italian word to describe gruels made in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance from things like spelt, chestnut flour and the aforementioned millet and acorns. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Less appealing but very nourishing were gruels, a sort of liquid drink made from cereals such as millet, rye, barley, oats, corn and of course wheat, whose modern equivalents are porridge and polenta. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The sweet potatoes were cooked, mashed, and added to these gruels as a thickener and nutrient. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They suggested that this would have then been cooked into a gruel, a precursor to the gruels that fed European and New World peasants for so many centuries. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When you look at terrorism and the face of terrorism today, there are so many new groups that have popped up on the scene: Ansar Al - Islam, Jihad Islamaya (ph), Abu Sayyaf, all these different gruels. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Since prehistory they have been dried, ground into flour, and used in the same way that the starchy cereals are, to make gruels, breads, pastas, cakes, and provide substance in soups. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

From the prehistoric invention of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution, the great majority of people on the planet lived on cereal gruels and breads. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Hot Cereals Hot cereals have been eaten since the dawn of civilization in the form of gruels, porridges, and congees. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Plain parched grains and dense gruels provide just as much nourishment, but bread introduced a new dimension of pleasure and wonder to the mainstays of human life. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Simpleness of diet was prescribed to them, roots, pottage, gruels, eating flesh but thrice a-week, because the accustomed feeding on flesh is a dishonourable corruption of the body; and behold, their tables groan under delicate fare! ❋ Unknown (2004)

That girl was so [horny] I had to use a [straw] for all the [gruel] there was. ❋ Dredd188 (2021)

[Krusty] Brand gruel 9 out of 10 [orphans] can't tell [the difference]. ❋ Carrie Henschell (2005)

Remember that once Rory said he'd eat [gruel]? [Ya boy] [got me FUCKED up]. ❋ Dopecrit (2015)

Gruel is very [nutritious]. ❋ Backseat Boss (2018)

[i heard] some [totally] gruel [news]! ❋ Jess (2004)

I go to work I go to the gym and than do a 5 [km] run and eat [chicken and broccoli] "Ahh the [gruel] dude" ❋ Kea301 (2020)

“i [get mad] bitches” “[you’re ugly] [as fuck], stop grueling” ❋ Some Random Tsg Mf (2022)

Only a [lush] [drinks] the gruel pit. ❋ Lt. Dungheap (2006)

[Marwa] is so gruel. ❋ Kyliexoxo (2018)

- Have you ever tried that "[corn] sweet gruel" thing before when you're in [Vietnam]? -Yeah, and it's [CENSORED] good. ❋ Marbles_TDS (2020)