gruel
/ˈɡruːəl/
noun
- A thin, watery food made by boiling oats or other grains in water or milk, often eaten by people who are sick or very poor.
- The patient was only able to eat a small bowl of warm gruel.
- In the old story, the orphan children were fed nothing but thin gruel for breakfast.
- He remembered the bland taste of the gruel his grandmother made when he had a fever.