Ever since getting covid my boyfriend has been susceptible to being sick.
He is complaining now about a horrible throat pain.
I’ve been making miso soup and buying other types of thin soup but I worried he isn’t being able to eat enough. He can force down some udon and boiled spinach.
Okayu is fine but regular rice is a no go. Potato’s and carrots even over boiled also are too hard.
I got some vermicelli noodles a friend recommended somen boiled eggplant is ok.
Anyone who has experienced painful throat or took care of someone who had that with covid what are some good recipe so I can give a little variety?
Considering buying a food processor at this point.
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When I had it, tea with honey helped my throat
When I’m sick, I’m a fan of mugs of microwaved apple juice (45 seconds to 1.5 mins, depending on how hot your microwave makes things. You want it warmer-than-lukewarm, but not scalding). You’re getting vitamins, and it coats the throat comfortably.
It does sound like investing in a blender or something would be a good fit for you and boyfriend. You could use that to make all sorts of blended soups, like kabocha or broccoli, which you could find online. It’d also let you make a decent potato cheddar soup that wouldn’t be too pokey on the throat. All of these would expand his available food nutrients. Best of luck.
Sounds like soups are the way to go. You can always blend ingredients if they’re too painful for him to eat.
Some delicious soups would be congee, butternut squash, and you can have more vegetables in the mix with stuff like broccoli cheddar or cream mushroom. Depending on how bad it is, you can always cut meats and other chunks very small so he can just swallow them so you don’t have to blend a chicken breast for the congee for example.
Add fruits with juices or smoothies.
From a nutritional standpoint, smoothies might be the way to go. With a blender, some yogurt/milk/almond milk, protein powder, and fruits or vegetables of your choice, your boyfriend should be able to fulfill his dietary needs.
Chicken broth. Throw one potato, one carrot, one onion in a pot of water with half a supermarket pack of chicken wings. Boil until the carrot loses cohesion. Pour through a strainer, add salt to taste, throw in some tofu.
You can boil any veggies until they’re mush and then blend them. Buy the cheapest blender you can find at your electronics store of choice. It’ll break just as soon as the one from the medium price range. You can also use that to blend fruit with a bit of water and a touch of honey for added sweetness.
Ice cream. If he isn’t taking in enough calories, this can be a way to top them up. Also with milk in the blender.
Can we assume that there is a doctor monitoring his condition? They may have dietary suggestions as well.
I will go for puree out of whatever veggies and/or fruits. You should also be able to find recipe with protein like fish.
Personaly, I use the rice cooker to have vegetables/fruits boiled, then I crush them with a fork and with vegetable, add milk along the way to make it softer.
You can season at your taste : buter, cheese, spice, herbs, …
I would recommed apple with cinamon. You should be able to find lot of recipe like for baby/elderly/…
I almost knocked 4 teeth out and was on a soft no chew diet for like, 6 weeks. Here’s my best recipes that I can recall off the top of my head for getting nutrients in when you can’t chew food, might also work for sore throat:
Scrambled eggs, put in a dollop of cream and a dash of soy sauce
Lentil dahl – red lentils, coconut milk (might be hard to get depending on where you are) curry powder, blend in some spinach. Put it in the blender and turn it into a paste. I lived on this shit
Mashed potato and gravy, with peas cooked and then pureed. Nothing like a bowl of white and green sludge.
After a while I could also do dumpling soup, just make a base broth with garlic ginger chicken stock, soft noodles and boil the gyoza in there until they are soggy. You can pretty much just suck em down.
Yogurt. I actually dislike it, but it gets calories into your body.
Tuna or salmon mousse
Hummus but it can be hard to get tahini in Japan. Refried Mexican beans also good but same deal with finding them. Basically if you can find chickpeas or kidney beans in a can and mush them and add something, you’re onto a winner.
Smoothies.
Vegetable soup pureed to sludge
Start with the scrambled eggs, most everyone actually enjoys eating that!
Tofu, gruel, potage, milkshake, pudding, flan, okayu, banana…
Fancier options: sobagaki, gomadofu, etc.