Voorbeelden van gruel

• 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.

• Until recently, casuals were not detained beyond the night of admission has been no change in dietary beyond the substitution of gruel for tea.

• But by this power of veto he could soon get you down to thin soup and water gruel.

• I am sure its diet is splendidly scientific, but it includes no roughage and it lives on a high protein gruel.

• But all of this cannot be conjured from the thin gruel of financial starvation.

• All that is pretty thin gruel upon which to feed a debate on those important issues.

• I am sorry to say that that thin gruel has been watered down substantially.

• I had already intended to say that this is a debate about thin gruel at the top table.