They are fed a few grains of rice boiled into gruel a couple of times a day; the food is placed directly inside the container.
Prematurely weaned babies who are only fed rice gruel are the main problem.
Her daughter-in-law remained the only person to bring water and rice gruel three times a day and to clean away her excrement in the evening.
The first foods to be included are usually starchy gruels and pastes, but these must very soon be followed by a wider range of foods including animal and vegetable proteins.
In many ways the book would have been better as an extended essay, since the thesis - at least as it is presented here - provides thin gruel indeed.
Looking at it, it is pretty thin gruel.
If the cavemen, or lions, are to be satisfied by thin gruel of this sort, they will not be much good as lions or cavemen.
There will soon be little left except thin gruel for the taxpayer.
